Water quality/lighting/bioload in biocube 14

[Doug]

Hi,
I will move this to the reef forum a for better response. I would suggest using ro water from the supermarket if an ro is not in the budget. I purchase mine here from the Co-op and its pretty good, although I think its just ro and not DI.

Hopefully someone local will suggest someplace local.

[sharuq1]

Hey mods could you please move this to the nano section?

[crusty1]

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/inde...howtopic=74703
This seems like a good fish guide.
I would say that 5g a week may be a bit much of a waterchange at once. I am doing 3-4 water changes a week, each of a 2 liter bottle on my biocube 14. Not a big deal as I always have 70g of SW mixed up for my wifes 180g reef. I may increase the volume changes as I increase the bioload. I feel that doing smaller changes more frequently will keep the system more stable.
I am new to the nano-reefs and learning myself. Maybe someone else will chime up? What I have read so far is that it is very easy to overfeed a nano reef so I am being conservative on the feeding and watching for changes in the corals and water conditions.
Chris

[crusty1]

Another thing, if you read that fish guide link I sent you, it shows that Royal Grammas can be quite territorial, and best when kept in a smaller tank, to be on its own.
Chris