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Hello everyone,

I have had my Innovative Marine 30L up and running for about 10 months now. I had no prior aquarium experience and I’ve learned a ton in the last 10 months thanks to everyone here.

The plan was to start with something small, see how I enjoyed the hobby then possibly upgrade later. Well now I’m at that point, I’m planning a new tank build which should take place in the next couple of months. I’m going to make a build thread when I start getting the pieces together and wanted to introduce myself before then.

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Welcome to R2R! I looked at the IM 30L when I planned my new build. Beautiful aquarium and it looks like you really made yours thrive. Good luck on the AquaMaxx 64!
 
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Zuke said:
Thank you! What tank did you end up going with?
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Well, I went with the JBJ 30, but it is being replaced by JBJ for a JBJ 45 (long story). The 45 is a couple inches longer all around so its footprint is not much larger than the 30 despite having about 50% more water volume. Generally though there were two reasons I did not go with the IM 30L: (1) after seeing one in person, I felt the display tank width was too narrow for me and (2) with the JBJ I could get away with a single 16” LED fixture.

I wonder, did you find the drain on the IM 30L useful?
 
NY_Caveman said:
Well, I went with the JBJ 30, but it is being replaced by JBJ for a JBJ 45 (long story). The 45 is a couple inches longer all around so its footprint is not much larger than the 30 despite having about 50% more water volume. Generally though there were two reasons I did not go with the IM 30L: (1) after seeing one in person, I felt the display tank width was too narrow for me and (2) with the JBJ I could get away with a single 16” LED fixture.

I wonder, did you find the drain on the IM 30L useful?
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I really liked the ratio that the 30l has but it is hard to make a nice display with such a narrow display. I also wanted something a little deeper so I can have a better range of par.
As far as a drain goes, mine doesn’t have one on it. Do the newer ones have a drain for water changes or plumbing in a sump?
The jbj’s are super nice, I was considering getting one but I found someone selling my tank used locally so I snatched it up.
 
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Zuke said:
I really liked the ratio that the 30l has but it is hard to make a nice display with such a narrow display. I also wanted something a little deeper so I can have a better range of par.
As far as a drain goes, mine doesn’t have one on it. Do the newer ones have a drain for water changes or plumbing in a sump?
The jbj’s are super nice, I was considering getting one but I found someone selling my tank used locally so I snatched it up.
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When I was looking at the IM 30L in the autumn, it did come with a drain direct from the tank down into the stand. It was said to make water changes easy, but I felt one may want to siphon in the tank for detritus and hence it may not get used much. I did think despite its small size, one could possibly use it with a sump, simple algae scrubber or chaeto reactor.
 
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