NUVO 20 Reboot - SPS Dominant

[jx.reef]

Really nice setup - that Blasto looks really happy! Wish I could get mine to puff up like that lol

I thought it was under my badge, but just in case here it is....lol don't laugh too much it's nothing like yours....

Nano Build - My Nuvo IM 20

Haven’t started a build thread. Unfortunately I’m not the best at taking pictures until everything is done but I’ll be sure to update this as things change! Anyhow love seeing everyone’s nanos and awesome ideas i see! Tank is a mixed reef (always changing) and currently housed by 3 residents...

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[Drizzieee]

Trust me not hard at all mostly stability and it goes a long way.

 

[teamschreiba]

Looks great! I’m trying something similar with a lot of SPS in a nano with no sump/skimmer. What’s your current fish stocking? Looks like at least a clownfish and damsel?

 

[jx.reef]

Pretty sure I have some kind of trace element deficiency. Still trying to figure out what it is. I probably should do an ICP test lol

 

[jx.reef]

Thanks schreiba! I keep a clownfish, cleaner goby, and springeri damsel. I’d like to add a tail spot Benny but haven’t seen one in months. The bio load is way too little from these guys so I dump all sorts of food into the tank

 

[teamschreiba]

Nice! Tail spot blennies do seem to have a ton of personality.

What are you feeding? I’m having to add reef roids to my tank given I only have 1 orchid dottyback in a 17g to try and keep the phosphates off of zero.

 

[jx.reef]

Nice! Tail spot blennies do seem to have a ton of personality.

What are you feeding? I’m having to add reef roids to my tank given I only have 1 orchid dottyback in a 17g to try and keep the phosphates off of zero.

I feed the fish flake food and mysis. Corals get phyto, reef energy ab+ daily, and reef roids occasionally. I also picked up some zeovit zeobak, sponge power, flatworm stop, and coral vitalizer that I started today. I’m not sure if any of them do anything but the tank seems happy so I’m sticking with it lol

 

[jx.reef]

Took a little over a month but the brown pearlberry is starting to pick up green polyps and some contrast in the body.

 

[jx.reef]

Updated FTS after changing the scape a little. Moved the arch all the way to back to give the tank some more depth. Corals are doing great!

 

[jx.reef]

Walt Disney coming along, almost fully encrusting the plug.

Pearlberry starting to show the “pearl” effect.

2 months of growth on the tester frag

Tester frag #2 picking up purples. Check out that polyp extension!

 

[jx.reef]

Small update...switching over to a G5 XR30 dramatically improved coverage of the tank. Also picked up some new goodies locally.

Night time shots!

 

[teamschreiba]

Corals look like they’re doing great! I bet you have a ton of PAR with an XR30 now too.

 

[jx.reef]

Thanks friend! It definitely packs a punch. Very happy with the light so far!

 

[jx.reef]

Some Sunday top down shots!

 

[jx.reef]

Had a water change mishap (3 rtn’d down to a few polyps but has started recovering). Everything is still chugging along!

 

[jx.reef]

 

[jx.reef]

Top down shots. Pretty happy with the 4 month progress

 

[jx.reef]

Wondering why my nitrates dropped to zero...looks like all the nutrients went into this algae I just pulled out lol

 

[jx.reef]

The algae battle continues! Spent a couple hours scraping and pulling out every last bit of algae. Began dosing vibrant and picked up an icecap skimmer

 

[jx.reef]