Innovative Marine Nuvo 8 Build

rosieosieee · Oct 21, 2016

Narzyzz_12 said:
oh gosh i didn't know expo could be toxic but I'm glad to see your sps are doing better now.

neither did I. but that's the only thing I did that night. epoxy rocks. I'm assuming there was some sort of major alk swing. I lost every single sps except for my starburst monti. I had to completely start over.

RobBaglieri · Oct 21, 2016

very nice tank. I have the same set up and find it very challenging to keep parameters in range. Nice work. I have six sexy shrimp in there. I used to have 10. I caught my cleaner shrimp murdering and eating on. The cleaner was banished to my 20 gallon tank to live with the evil banded coral shrimp. I also have a feather duster, neon goby, a watchman goby and a pistol shrimp. All seem to be doing well.

The only corals I can keep alive are a toad stool, a kenya tree, one purple rhodactis shroom some GSP and a yellow leather. I have tried zoas, other shrooms, montys, torches, palys....nothing else survives in there. Nano tanks are very challenging to me. You have inspired me to rework my aquascape and try something different to get the tank more productive. I am interested to see how your plumb the sump on this tank. Keep us posted. Keep up the good work.

rosieosieee · Oct 21, 2016

RobBaglieri said:
very nice tank. I have the same set up and find it very challenging to keep parameters in range. Nice work. I have six sexy shrimp in there. I used to have 10. I caught my cleaner shrimp murdering and eating on. The cleaner was banished to my 20 gallon tank to live with the evil banded coral shrimp. I also have a feather duster, neon goby, a watchman goby and a pistol shrimp. All seem to be doing well.

The only corals I can keep alive are a toad stool, a kenya tree, one purple rhodactis shroom some GSP and a yellow leather. I have tried zoas, other shrooms, montys, torches, palys....nothing else survives in there. Nano tanks are very challenging to me. You have inspired me to rework my aquascape and try something different to get the tank more productive. I am interested to see how your plumb the sump on this tank. Keep us posted. Keep up the good work.

thank you! I've made this tank more stable and less of a hassle by adding an ATO, doser for cal/alk, and GFO for phosphates. the angler doesn't add much bio load and my nitrates and phosphates stay 0-trace. what's your lighting like? I have my nano box tide maxed at 100% blues/100% whites for the sps. sounds like you're keeping softies alive, but nothing that requires higher lighting, and flow.

I put the sump on my 60G LPS actually.

RobBaglieri · Oct 22, 2016

rosieosieee said:
thank you! I've made this tank more stable and less of a hassle by adding an ATO, doser for cal/alk, and GFO for phosphates. the angler doesn't add much bio load and my nitrates and phosphates stay 0-trace. what's your lighting like? I have my nano box tide maxed at 100% blues/100% whites for the sps. sounds like you're keeping softies alive, but nothing that requires higher lighting, and flow.

I put the sump on my 60G LPS actually.

I have the AI prime at 80% blues, 40 whites, and 20 red green. about 8 inches off the water.