Aquarium Obsessed 60 gallon Starphire Über-Cube

[BioCube14]

light looks MUCH BETTER!

[wwarriner]

Did you have any problem when you added your yellow tang? I noticed you already had a powder brown and thought they might not get along.

[jrsatx20]

I also learned that if I plug just one more thing (like, oh, say, a 7" cooling fan) into the power strip it trips the circuit breaker. Talk about right on the ragged edge!

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im not an electrician but i do know that each room is one circuit meaning 1 switch to 4 or 5 plugs. so disconnect a lamp and u can plug something else in. or is it the breaker on the strip. i guess i should have asked that question first huh.

[Noober]

its been awhile but thats usually 15 amps per circut, unless you've got a heavily wired house it will mabe have a 30 amp but i seriously doubt it unless there used to be some sort of heavy duty 110/120 volt appliace in that room.... anyway, any more than that at it will break... if you pull from another set of plugs it might do the trick, If they wired it right you will have an individual circut for each plug. I'd keep your light on one and your pumps on another... good luck

[fjr_wertheimber]

Did you have any problem when you added your yellow tang? I noticed you already had a powder brown and thought they might not get along.

Nope, no problems whatsoever between the powder brown and the yellow. The foxface and the powder brown played tag for a day or so, and the foxface bullied the yellow for a day or so, and the copperband acts scared of everyone, but *knocks on wood* no real aggression or behavioral issues as of yet. Everyone seems to get along pretty well in fact.
Speaking of getting along, I was digging through my boxes o' stuff, and came across some pellet food. Now, I always feed frozen, but figured "what the heck" and plopped some pellets in the tank. HOLY COW! Those fish attacked the pellets like a sumo on an all-you-can-eat sushi platter! I guess I'm going to have to get some more pellets, but I think I'll still have to feed some frozen food for my mandarin. (I think he'd eat pellets if he could get to 'em, but everyone else eats 'em as soon as they hit the water.)

[fjr_wertheimber]

im not an electrician but i do know that each room is one circuit meaning 1 switch to 4 or 5 plugs. so disconnect a lamp and u can plug something else in. or is it the breaker on the strip. i guess i should have asked that question first huh.

It's the breaker on the GFCI strip.

[olaggie01]

Nope, no problems whatsoever between the powder brown and the yellow. The foxface and the powder brown played tag for a day or so, and the foxface bullied the yellow for a day or so, and the copperband acts scared of everyone, but *knocks on wood* no real aggression or behavioral issues as of yet. Everyone seems to get along pretty well in fact.
Speaking of getting along, I was digging through my boxes o' stuff, and came across some pellet food. Now, I always feed frozen, but figured "what the heck" and plopped some pellets in the tank. HOLY COW! Those fish attacked the pellets like a sumo on an all-you-can-eat sushi platter! I guess I'm going to have to get some more pellets, but I think I'll still have to feed some frozen food for my mandarin. (I think he'd eat pellets if he could get to 'em, but everyone else eats 'em as soon as they hit the water.)

You'd be better off feeding a quality frozen food then pellets. Those are loaded with phosphates and fillers.

[longhorna95]

This is a great thread FJR! I really want to upgrade once I get out of college to a set up similar to yours! thanks for all the pics! and If you take any more, please do, the rest of us will appreciate the final setup look! And you said you have a manderian, and that it eats frozen food!! That must be nice I had one that only at cope-pods or similar suppliments