scubasteve92 Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Hey everyone, I am starting a new tank!! Actually, it's been running for over 6 months but I am just now getting around to posting it. Current FTS: 1/31/15 The Tank: Innovative Marine 16g Nuvo Innovative Marine Fusion 20 (upgraded a few weeks ago) Filtration/Equipment: Upgraded media baskets to the IM ones with filter floss and MarinePure Ceramic Biomedia Spheres Reactor - MiniMax Desktop Media Reactor with regular BRS GFO Skimmer - **Adding soon - Aqua Gadget Skimmate Desktop Ghost Skimmer Return - Tunze Recirculation Pump Silence 1073.008 Controller - Full Apex with temp probe Lighting - Radion XR-15 Pro with RMS mounting Heater - Cobalt Neo-Therm 75w heater Flow - Vortech MP10 Sand/Rock: ~10lbs. of rock that I cycled in the tank ~20lbs. of Fiji Pink CaribSea Arag-Alive Sand Livestock: Longfin Fairy Wrasse Midas Blenny - Lost him about a week ago.. Tribal Blenny - replaced the midas Scarlet Shrimp Red Tile Sea Star (I'm pretty sure) CUC - 5g quickcrew from ReefCleaners (will never order from anywhere else!) Coral: Rainbow Fungia Plate 7 different acan frags each with 1 - 5 heads 2 blasto frags each 1 big head and one with a ring of babies growing Green and Purple favia Metallic Orange and Blue ric Metallic Green ric Rainbow ric Green Toadstool from Richard Forest Fire Digi Had a phosphate issue that I have resolved but Idk if it will come back.. Confusa Monti Baby acan frag (pic below) This little guy was growing off the edge of one of my acan pieces and I was able to get under the skeleton and cut it cleanly. So I glued it to a plug and it has been eating and growing like crazy! Zoas/Palys Nuclear Green Eye of Rah Utter Choas Red People Eater Black Hole Mars ASD Jokers Oxides Fruit Loops Fire and Ice Pink Zippers Amor of God God of War Candy Apple Reds A bunch of pics Old tank (same setup that I have now but with the Fusion 20): Stuff in the new tank: sorry for the crappy iphone pics.. Trying to not spend money unless I have to on the tank... (this was my gf's resolution for me this year, but it wont last long ) Thanks for looking, Joshua Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madsalt Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Very nice setup, look forward to watching its progression Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubasteve92 Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 Thanks! If only I could get the pics to cooperate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KimP Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Nice tank. Beautiful fish and corals! Good luck with the not spending money on your tank thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubasteve92 Posted February 1, 2015 Author Share Posted February 1, 2015 Thanks! I will try! I am planning on adding Kryptonite Candy Canes, a hammer and/or torch, a frag of Birdsnest (once my phosphate are back to 0.00), and maybe switch out some of the more common zoas/palys for some more rare ones. I had setup my RODI unit to have a 5g jug always full for water changes and ATO fills which was awesome but this means that I neglected to flush the membrane for over 3 months.. this lead to the water coming out of my unit to have phosphates at 0.05 (I think it was higher, fixed this a month or so ago). I so flushed the membrane for about 5 minutes and then tested the water and I was back at 0.00. I also got a dremel 4000 today I explained to Savanna (gf ) that it was an awesome tool for cut wine bottle and doing arts and crafts with. She was onboard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 The tank looks awesome Josh! Hope that hanna phosphate trick bought you some time to dissolve your reagent! Just a quick thought, from how I'm reading it, it seems like you have your RO/DI water automatically fill up when your topoff uses any water at all. I had a system setup very similar until I realized that the dirtiest water your RO/DI system makes is in the first few minutes when it starts making water. If you have it plumbed to fill up immediately when used, then you're basically using the dirtiest RO/DI water your system makes to topoff your system. What I've done is put in a manual lever and when my ATO bucket gets low (every 5-8 days), I turn the switch and presto, it fills up entirely and then stops via my float valve. I hope to have this switched out from a manual switch to a electronic switch that I can activate via my apex. Then I'll just program it to actuate every 5 days and fill up my ATO bucket. Then the only thing I'm responsible for is flushing my membrane every month or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubasteve92 Posted February 1, 2015 Author Share Posted February 1, 2015 The tank looks awesome Josh! Hope that hanna phosphate trick bought you some time to dissolve your reagent! Just a quick thought, from how I'm reading it, it seems like you have your RO/DI water automatically fill up when your topoff uses any water at all. I had a system setup very similar until I realized that the dirtiest water your RO/DI system makes is in the first few minutes when it starts making water. If you have it plumbed to fill up immediately when used, then you're basically using the dirtiest RO/DI water your system makes to topoff your system. What I've done is put in a manual lever and when my ATO bucket gets low (every 5-8 days), I turn the switch and presto, it fills up entirely and then stops via my float valve. I hope to have this switched out from a manual switch to a electronic switch that I can activate via my apex. Then I'll just program it to actuate every 5 days and fill up my ATO bucket. Then the only thing I'm responsible for is flushing my membrane every month or so. I do it every time I use it! The way I had it set up was it actually went into a separate 5g jug near the unit. I have a 2.5g tank for the ATO container. I just liked having a jug of water ready to go without having 3 or 4 jugs of water sitting around. I like the idea of your setup and yeah utilizing the apex would be even better! I wanted to attach the float I was using in the 5g jug into my ATO container so that whenever I needed water it would automatically fill up the ATO after the it was close to empty. But.... my apt complex probably wouldn't be too happy with me running water line throughout my apt. Oh well, something to do once we have our own place. I'm not dealing with more than 4 to 5g at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Welcome back! Tank looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubasteve92 Posted February 6, 2015 Author Share Posted February 6, 2015 Welcome back! Tank looks great. Thanks! It's good to be back! Love having a tank again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubasteve92 Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 Quick update: Blenny is sold. Decided to go with a clown pair at some point. Got a few new corals and have been rearranging the tank quite a bit. I added an Innovative Marine Protein skimmer to the tank. I also took the reactor offline and will probably just use it for carbon every now and then and maybe some GFO if and when needed. I also have been working on a frag tank. It will be an independent system in my room with a 15g display and a 20g sump. I will probably run it with only live rock seeded from my fusion 20 and a protein skimmer. Not much more required besides water changes. I haven't decided what light I want to run yet but I am wanting to do LEDs since it will be mainly zoas/palys, a few softies, and some LPS. My plan for the Fusion 20 is to do mainly SPS and a few lps and a couple of choice zoas/palys. Lots going on and hopefully I can post some pics up soon (need to rearrange all the coral in my sand bed..) Thanks for reading! Josh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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