Innovative Marine SR-80 build

nmertz1 · Jun 23, 2015

Hey Guys,

I've been on here before with my old Nuvo 38 gallon. I recently built a house and decided to upgrade the SR-80. It fit the space perfectly in our house, and I'm gone a lot so an AIO really suits me. The tank is roughly 6 months old (38 was set up for almost 2 years) and a lot of the coral and live rock came from that tank.

I ran into a few hiccups, and I hope to document all of that. But for now, let's bring you up to speed.

Here's the old Nuvo 38

New SR-80 Starting up

nmertz1 · Jun 23, 2015

A couple fire fish and a diatom bloom

5 weeks later, I moved everything from the old tank into the new

nmertz1 · Jun 23, 2015

This is where it starts to go downhill.. Both clowns and my tang either got marine velvet or ich. I believe it was from cycling with the fire fish and not QT them first.. Really sucked. I tried to best to set up a hospital tank, but only the male survived.

nmertz1 · Jun 23, 2015

I became pretty discouraged after loosing the female clown (15 years old) stopped taking pictures, and posting videos on YouTube. To make matters worse, the tank had a hair algae problem then I started getting a cyano bloom.

I stayed patient, and things started looking up. Algae went away, and I started adding a couple more fish and coral

reefwiser · Jun 23, 2015

Nice tank I have a Fusion 40 waiting for flooring to be laid before moving animals over. Its good you stuck it out. Each tank goes thru a break in period.