IM AIO 15g!

[coastalcoraline5181]

just ordered myself the IM AIO 15g!! coming this weekend! im so excited to downgrade in size honestly because i love the way they look. any tips or recommendations on setting it up? its my first aio and i wanna do it correctly

 

[Fish Fan]

Congrats on the new tank!

I like to check here for inspiration:

All In One Aquariums (AIO)

Discuss All In One aquariums like Red Sea, JBJ, Innovative Marine, Coralife, etc. AIO aquariums come with most everything you need to set up a saltwater aquarium in one package.

www.reef2reef.com

Good luck!

 

[HossAquatics]

I just cycled one. Id say one thing i didnt expect is how little space there is for a heater in the second chamber. I went with the Eheim Jager 50w and it fits perfect. And i keep a mesh bag of seachem matrix in the return chamber. Another thing, I overestimated how much rock can fit in the tank so i ended up going with 5ish pounds instead of the pound per gallon recommendation. Other than that, ive got an AI prime 16HD light on it and probably getting a nero 3 tomorrow. I wanted to get a tunze ATO but ended up going with one of the bottle ATOs since i wanted to spend more on a quality powerhead. Also, make sure that your sand is not fine enough that the flow blows it around but fine enough if you want fish/inverts that’ll mess with it. I got fiji pink but im not going to be running much flow. 5gal is good for about 2 weeks of topoffs but im running the water hot rn for the bacteria so maybe itll last longer when i lower it