10g IM Nuvo - Nem tank

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So I’ve convinced the wife to let me get a small tank because I have a clown getting bullied in my main tank. I’ve chosen to go with the Nuvo 10 AIO to keep it simple and low profile to keep her happy.

The plan: Set up the tank using caribsea Hawaiian black sank.

Debating get a piece of dry rock and cycling the tank the long slow way or just using a live piece from my main. Only issue is I have an algae issue and don’t want to bring it over here with it.

I have a Kessil A80 tuna blue on the way with the controller.

stock wise I’ll move my little clown over and eventually get him another little buddy clown. Possibly add a cleaner shrimp.

coral wise I don’t plan to keep anything except a black widow or inferno BTA.

hopefully I have success and they split and I can convince the wife to let me get a low boy start frags :cool:

everything is ordered just waiting on arrival!

here’s the little fella I’m moving, he loves the GSP.

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Lights were the first to come in! The tank is processing and my sand and rock from BRS shipped today. Algae barn should have the turbo start sent soon.

I decided to do the long cycle and go slow with this tank dry rock actually take my time with the aquascape and leave room for the eventual black widow nem as the center piece.

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So today was a busy day. Actually wasn’t too bad, everything was a lot easier with no sump and plumbing. Loving the AIO life. Today I build a stand with some left over 2x4s (this stand is overkill). Also painted the stand and got the tank up and going!
I’m not 100% I like the aquascape or having all these flat rocks that are so thin....didn’t expect the whole bag to be that way.
Anyway it’s running! Waiting until the morning when the water is heated to dose the Turbo Start from algae barn.

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Small update. Nem is looking good. The tank has started the ugly stage with the rocks getting that brown dust. Hoping the snail will do some work. Looking to add one or two more this month along with a cleaner shrimp at some point. Going to give another month or two before moving one of my clowns over with this one

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Love watching this progress! just started my nuvo 10 with kessil a80 as well. What are you running color / intensity are you running with your lights and how long?

The nems are doing so well

I had a nem as a hitchhiker, but he appears to be bleached and is hiding in a cave.
 
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Love watching this progress! just started my nuvo 10 with kessil a80 as well. What are you running color / intensity are you running with your lights and how long?

The nems are doing so well

I had a nem as a hitchhiker, but he appears to be bleached and is hiding in a cave.
I’m running at 65% intensity 20% color at the peak hours 5 in the evening.

I may go brighter slowly once the tank is done with the ugly stage.

min doing a water change tonight so hopefully the nem doesn’t get too sad.
 
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Small update.

Had a massive diatom bloom, let it run its course for about 2 weeks then it got a little absurd so I popped in a UV for two weeks and cleaned it up nice.

Also my rainbow nem moved from the back of the tank to right where I wanted it right on top of the rocks in the middle. Also as the kicker, my clown decided to host it which is awesome!

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So today was a busy day. Actually wasn’t too bad, everything was a lot easier with no sump and plumbing. Loving the AIO life. Today I build a stand with some left over 2x4s (this stand is overkill). Also painted the stand and got the tank up and going!
I’m not 100% I like the aquascape or having all these flat rocks that are so thin....didn’t expect the whole bag to be that way.
Anyway it’s running! Waiting until the morning when the water is heated to dose the Turbo Start from algae barn.

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Lookin good man!
 
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No real news to report. New tank ugly are in full swing with the brown Hairish algae on the rock and diatoms on the glass.

However the rainbow nem seems to be very happy especially since the clown moved in.

hoping to clean up the uglies by the endof September then I may add a zoa and some more CUC

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What do you figure the par from that light is. I question you'll have enough light for that nem.
 

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Any updates you can share? I will be setting up this tank soon. It should be delivered today and I am considering a bubble tip and 2 clowns. Are you using the stock pump that came with the tank?
 
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I’m using the stock pump yes. I have it at about 50%. There’s a Sicce pump you can buy to upgrade it.

I also suggest tossing the glass cleaner that comes with the IM tanks it’s awful and doesn’t float so I would pick up a mag float of something.

my Rainbow bubble tip is doing ok, it’s been moving a lot recently. Some people say my current light isn’t strong enough for it but it stays open and looks full almost daily.

my single clown has been hosting the nem for months, I’m also dealing with some cyano which is partly because I’m not home for 3 months to do the correct maintenance.

in all I love the tank it’s super simple to set up and run. It’s very quiet and will start blowin bubbles when you need topped off.
 
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Guess it’s been awhile.

Tank is now over a year old. I have to say it’s not as far along as I’d hoped.

With the black Hawaiian sand it seemed to just not work out and constantly had some time of matting algae growing on it no matter how many times I rip cleaned or H2o2 dosed or scrubbed.

I also took out all the original rock and used two chunks from my established large tank sump. Aquascape is much better.

When I upgraded my large tank to larger I had a clown dispute and had to re home one into this tank. They seem to get along good now. I do feel bad the one went from 100g to 10g but.. he was being a lil B in the big tank and not fighting back.

As of two days ago though my rainbow anemone split! It was finally starting to poof up and get larger as it had been unhappy with the tank stability the past months. Come home to the split and now I hop these two grow quickly as I’d like this to be filled with Nems at some point

Also moved the Red Sea ReefLed over when I upgraded my other tank.
 

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