*NEW* IM Nuvo 150 EXT BUILD

[dshillen]

Very nice build
You have the APS stand .. not Apex
Sorry my ocd kicked in
Also
I’m gonna build an acrylic liner ( drip tray) under my RFS-22 sump
You should consider in place of your pond liner
Should only cost about $100
Again…. Beautiful build


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Good catch Marty. I was tired and didn’t spell check . I thought about a drip tray after the fact. When you get yours let me know where you got yours from.


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[marty92128]

Once I have the exact dimensions and thickness I’m going to e-Plastics
I’ll either have them cut the 5 pieces for me and I’ll glue it together or if not too expensive I’ll have them fabricate the whole thing
I need to stay very close to the thickness of IM s bottom piece so the plumbing works
A 48 x 24 piece of white acrylic is about $109
You’ll obviously need a bigger piece (which they have)


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[dshillen]

Just a quick update. I’m still waiting on the tank to cycle (it’s close) hopefully tomorrow it will be cycled.

I wasn’t a fan of the lid that IM includes with the tank. Today my new lid from Top Lids arrived. Just another costly expense lol.






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[dshillen]

Tank is cycled Yay!!! Just did a 25 gallon water change and now it’s time to pod this biatch.




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[dshillen]

Quick update. Got back into town after a 4 day trip away. Before I left I had added a pair black storm clownfish and a royal gramma from my 25 gallon lagoon and after that a fox face and 6 bangai cardinal. All are doing well.

Today I’ll be adding aqua char to the reactor don’t know if anyone has used this or not. I’ve been using it for over a year now in place of traditional carbon.




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[dshillen]

Marty was asking where I was going to put all my equipment. I took a slim line adaptive reef controller board a had on my other tank and attached it to the large adaptive reef controller cabinet. Still a work in progress but here it is so far.




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[dshillen]

Like an idiot I forgot about the DOS and DDR so had to move the MP40 controllers down a bit. Only things left to move over from the existing tank is the lights, ATO, and some livestock. That will be coming in the next few days.




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[Drama D]

Control center, wow! Nice

[dshillen]

Thanks brother!!


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[dshillen]

Tank is done some fish and inverts are in I have 3 fish coming tomorrow and have to get 4 fish out of the old aquarium. Tried hooking up the Neptune ATK that thing gives me so many headaches and I couldn’t get it to work so put the old reliable Tunze on. Sorry for the blue pics doesn’t look like that in person.






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[TysTanks]

Neptune ATO is a headache. My Tunze just went out and I wasn’t able to fix it this time. I bought the Red Sea and couldn’t be happier. Works flawlessly and all the extra monitoring is great. Would highly recommend if you end up needed a new ATO.

[dshillen]

Neptune ATO is a headache. My Tunze just went out and I wasn’t able to fix it this time. I bought the Red Sea and couldn’t be happier. Works flawlessly and all the extra monitoring is great. Would highly recommend if you end up needed a new ATO.

Thanks Ty I will look it up and when I'm ready I will hit you up for some corals..

[dshillen]

Ok quick update tank is humming along. Going through a brown algae ugly stage. Have a clean up crew coming next week. I picked up a red sea ATO+ on Ty’s recommendation and installed it 2 days ago I must say I like it very much. Thanks for the heads up Ty.






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[dshillen]

Update. I added a UV sterilizer due to some fish loss thinking I had some type of bacterial infection going on, but alas it was my own stupidness. You know what they say “the more you know the less you know” and I put way more fish in the tank than what I should have. But all is good now. I had a ton of algae that issues but dosing microbacter7 everyday for 2 weeks and now once a week with a water change I would say I have knocked back at least 95% of the algae. Here is a current photo.




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[dshillen]

5 month UPDATE!!!

So I had a couple of hiccups, but now everything is good. Like I said previously I added a UV sterilizer and today I replaced my Neptune AFS with an Avast Plank auto feeder.

Livestock consist of a Purple Tang, Coral Beauty, melanarus wrasse, aptasia eating file fish, starry blenny, fox face, and a black storm clownfish.








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