Nuggs' IM NUVO Fusion 20 Build

[Nuggs]

All the Coral that I hope to move into the 20G. Sorry for the cell phone pic.




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[Nuggs]

Got my box of stuff from Reefsupplies on Friday, just random bits, an ATO reservoir, and my new media baskets.


My helpers take unboxing seriously...





They even test the packaging material to see that it meets my expectations.

https://youtu.be/jNHfaPY_Gzc

I was going to go with the InTank media baskets but with the price of the US dollar and the crazy shipping prices I went with the IM baskets instead. Still very happy with them.






Overall a much bigger and more robust basket.

[Nuggs]

A couple pics I snapped while acclimating stuff:

[shiftline]

looking good.

The custom caddy baskest are 100x better than the stock one.. it drove me nuts trying to close the stock one back up (i think they did that on purpose to drive sales!)

[Nuggs]

Originally Posted by shiftline

looking good.

The custom caddy baskest are 100x better than the stock one.. it drove me nuts trying to close the stock one back up (i think they did that on purpose to drive sales!)

Your telling me! I fought with the old ones just to get them closed.

[shiftline]

Looks great. I have been debating doing the exact same screen mesh swap. Where did you get your mesh from?

[davej]

Originally Posted by shiftline

Looks great. I have been debating doing the exact same screen mesh swap. Where did you get your mesh from?

Go to a fabric store and grab some black tulle, the stuff they make veils out of.
Once you stretch it into the frame its almost invisible. You wont be disappointed.

[Nuggs]

A few updates:

I was never completely happy with the spread on the AI Prime. It would have been good for an 18" area but at 24" long I had too much shadowing on the edges. I could have went with a second Prime but the tank wouldn't have accommodated the 2 mounts well. They would have been closer together than I wanted to avoid interfering with the back mounted sump equipment.

A few weeks back I found a deal on a pair of used Kessils A360WE that was too good to pass up. Currently running the pair at 30% on goosenecks. Loving the lighting difference. No shadows, great spectrum, a little less red and green highlights than the Prime, but better UV output.


Added a MagRock Jr and rearranged some frags. I really like the look, definitely added some depth to the tank. Should look really good once the rock colours up.


Last week I started adding Kalkwasser to my top off water. Parameters appear to be holding steady with a 2 tsp to 2.5 gallon mix. PH is staying up nicely as well.


Started noticing some of my Zoas aren't as fully open as I'd like. I think I'm keeping the tank too clean, might need to up my nitrates a bit.

[Nuggs]

Added a new fish today. A Hector's Goby.
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Settled right in almost immediately.

[Nuggs]

Got up this morning and noticed my skimmer was overflowing. Checked the water level in the sump section and it was really high, but hasn't quite reached the overflow switch.

Not positive what happened. The only thing I can think off is that the power may have flicked a bunch of times yesterday. When the power flickered it much have been enough to trip the Ozmolater, causing it to dump a little water into the tank every time. The power must've never went out completely because I never did get a power failure e-mail from the Apex.

Looks like the ATO was shutoff by the Apex automatically when the PH hit 8.4. Salinity ended up being 1.024 so not too bad.

Guess its time to invest in a UPS.