btmedic04's Nuvo 20 and 10 build thread

kamla · Mar 9, 2019

btmedic04 said:
Things have been doing great this week

Great !!!!!

Can post pics with normal lights ?
If possible....

I meant with all the lights ..

btmedic04 · Mar 9, 2019

kamla said:
Great !!!!!

Can post pics with normal lights ?
If possible....

I meant with all the lights ..

I will tomorrow after they come back on

flchamp89 · Mar 9, 2019

Looks really good. Nice frags.

btmedic04 · Mar 13, 2019

Apologies for taking so long to get back to you all regarding the FTS. As promised here it is as well as a picture of my six line wrasse. I mounted my stylo to the rock work but had a mini panic attack when it came off the frag plug. It seems to be doing just fine as does the encrusted part on the frag plug. Maybe I just have 2 new frags lol

btmedic04 · Mar 13, 2019

Pics will come when I get home and figure out why they are being posted upside down

btmedic04 · Mar 13, 2019

ok, lets try this

kamla · Mar 13, 2019

SUPER !!!!!!

btmedic04 · Mar 13, 2019

kamla said:
SUPER !!!!!!

Thank you!

btmedic04 · Mar 16, 2019

So this arrived today, as well as some nerite and astrea snails for my nuvo 20 and trochus snails for my nuvo 10.... now we wait for my yasha goby to come in and go through QT

kamla · Mar 16, 2019

looks nice...

how much Bio load you have so far?
you are about a month ahead of me in the build...

btmedic04 · Mar 16, 2019

kamla said:
looks nice...

how much Bio load you have so far?
you are about a month ahead of me in the build...

2 black snowflake clownfish
1 six line wrasse
2 trochus snails
2 nassarius snails
4 blue leg hermits
4 astrea snails
4 cerith snails
1 tiger pistol shrimp

And the aforementioned yasha goby. That will be the totality of my bioload for my nuvo 20. If I have to, I can shift some of the cuc to my nuvo 10 as it only has 2 trochus, 2 astreas and 2 hermits. For fish in the 10, I'm thinking maybe a clown goby or court jester goby

btmedic04 · Apr 4, 2019

Everything is still coming along. I picked up a wheelers shrimp goby to pair up with my tiger pistol shrimp and they immediately did so. No more livestock will be added but I may add another couple of corals later on down the road. I'm really looking at a coralbox dosing setup on reefbreeders because I'm having to dose daily to maintain my parameters. They're currently:

Salinity 1.026
PH 8.2
Phosphate undetectable
Nitrate 4
Alk 9.0
Cal 435
Mag 1420

I picked up a purple people eater paly, pink tip frog spawn and Australian gsp for my nuvo 10. That's in addition to the eagle eye zoas and a mushroom I added a few weeks back. Had a green clown goby in there but he hunger striked himself to death. Tried flakes, pellets, frozen mysis, brine shrimp and the tank is full of pods. Pretty bummed about that =/ Anyone have any suggestions for a fish in a nuvo 10?

btmedic04 · Apr 10, 2019

More updates, both good and bad. First the good. It turns out my gcg is alive and well. When he first went missing, I checked the back sump of my nuvo 10 and did not find him. It turns out he is very good at blending in with algae because when I cleaned out the back last weekend, it was back there fat and as happy as can be living it's best life. I scooped it out and put it back into the DT and put an overflow guard on. The bad news is my wheelers goby in my nuvo 20 found the 1/4" gap between my screen and the glass out of all of the 2 square feet of surface area for him to jump and went carpet surfing. I was pretty bummed about it because as reefkeepers it's our responsibility to ensure the wellbeing of the animals in our care and I failed. I've since corrected the issue and got dozer the pistol shrimp a new partner; an orange spotted goby. He seems pretty bold compared to the wheelers and escorted dozer around the tank all day while he dug trenches between my two rock islands. My six line came over to investigate and the orange spot very quickly got the wrasse to bugger off. I also picked up a new zoa frag ( care to ID it for me? Was $30 and not named at my LFS) and a polyp lab coralview lense V2.

In other news, a coworker of mine is trying to get rid of a 75 gallon fw setup that I will probably take and convert to sw but that will be it's own thread some day. On to the pics

My new zoas. What are they?

Baby trochus snail!

btmedic04 · Apr 10, 2019

Bonus nuvo 10 pictures

btmedic04 · Apr 21, 2019

Current update. I have mounted most of my corals except for my acan (still trying to find a spot for it) I think my zoa garden came out quite nicely. Now dozer will no longer bury my frags on the sand lol. I watched him dig a trench along the back wall to the right and then to the front of the tank. His orange spot goby kept him company the entire time. I even watched him chase off the six line a time or two when he got too close to what was going on. Goby dont play!

I finally dialed my skimmer in to produce dry skimmate so we'll see how that goes. I've also begun dosing tropic marin all for reef and will be dialing that in over the next couple of weeks. I need to make maintaining stability as simple as possible since I will be away from my tank in July for 3 weeks and my lady will be managing things in my absence.

I picked up a couple new frags for my nuvo 10 and mounted them as well and I also picked up another radion xr15, mounting arm and diffuser for it as well. Eventually the xr15s will be going over a 75 gallon with a hybrid t5 fixture.

Speaking of 75 gallon aquariums, a coworker of mine is giving me one. It's currently set up as a freshwater system but I will be doing a deep clean before drilling and plumbing but that is for another thread later on down the road.

btmedic04 · Apr 23, 2019

After finding my green clown goby and hi fin red banded goby in the rear sump, I picked up some IM fish guards to prevent that from happening. They worked great except that my nuvo 10 would accumulate that surface tension scum since the overflow was no longer surface skimming. After getting tired of removing the guard for a little bit every day, I decided to modify one since they come in packs of two. I removed the third and fourth horizontal braces all the way across. My overflow is back to surface skimming and I only have about a 1/4 inch gap from the surface to the next horizontal brace for my fish to try to squeeze through. I'll be watching closely to see if my GCG ends up in the back since I haven't seen my hi finned red banded goby in the past week (I've emptied the rear sump twice looking for him and hes not there)