Nuvo Fusion 20 build !

Angel_V_the_reefer · Dec 21, 2020

Yo what’s up reefing brothers and sister, so I have started a build thread in order to document my progress. I have an Innovative Marine Nuvo Fusion Pro 20 with stock pump. I will make a list of all the good stuff that I have for my tank!
Equipment / media / and resources being used on this tank :
- reef saver dry rock
- Sicce Voyager nano powerhead
- AI Prime 16HD LED fixture with their flex arm
- Eheim Jager 100 W heater (slightly oversized for this tank haha )
- Marine land premium activated carbon
- BRS GFO
- filter floss bought off of Amazon
- HW Marinemix reefer salt
- digital thermometer off of Amazon
- BRS 6 stage RODI deluxe system 100 GPD
This is what I’m using to start up my tank and of course I have all other resources such as test kits, fish food, tds meter in hand. I plan on cycling this tank next week , I’m just waiting to purchase live sand which I plan to purchase at my LFS.

Reef. · Dec 21, 2020

Nice...live sand is just sand with bottle bacteria added, it means you can’t rinse the sand before adding to tank, you could use dry sand, give a good rinse with tap water to get rid of all the fines that will cloud the water, then a final rinse in rodi water and add a bottle bacteria if you want.

PR_nano · Dec 21, 2020

I like the aquascape any particular fish you plan to add? Following along and looking for ideas for my IM20.

Angel_V_the_reefer · Dec 21, 2020

PR_nano said:
I like the aquascape any particular fish you plan to add? Following along and looking for ideas for my IM20.

I plan on adding a pair of clownfish and along the way a purple fire fish and an orange spotted goby pored up with a pistol shrimp! Of course I plan on having a clean up crew once I see signs of algae. And thank you! This aqua scape took me a week to think of. The one on the left was built by 5 pieces of rock and the one on the left were various small rocks super glued together with 2 larger rocks as the base .

Angel_V_the_reefer · Dec 21, 2020

Reef. said:
Nice...live sand is just sand with bottle bacteria added, it means you can’t rinse the sand before adding to tank, you could use dry sand, give a good rinse with tap water to get rid of all the fines that will cloud the water, then a final rinse in rodi water and add a bottle bacteria if you want.

Mhm that’s a good idea. I will check out the prices of live sand at my lfs and if they’re too pricey I’ll certainly pick up some sand !

Angel_V_the_reefer · Dec 21, 2020

Oh yeah if you guys have any questions as to the aqua scape or any of that sort fee free to ask!

Angel_V_the_reefer · Jan 1, 2021

Added bacteria yesterday , many people were telling me I could add fish straight from the bat with bio spira but I have to wait a week or 2 for fish so I dosed 2ppm of ammonia to feed the bacteria. The tank is running well, soon we will stock it and once we see some diatoms add our cuc.