IM Nuvo 14 Build/Upgrades Help

[KeysReefer]

First official post here so please be gentle reefers!!

Starting a build and could use help on upgrades. Just scored an amazing bday gift of a new tank and light, let me know what you guys think of the light. Planning on low light corals, maybe just a few low light sps but mostly zoas and acans with a couple designer clowns, maybe a blenny.

Current eq;

IM Nuvo 14 Peninsula
Fluval Sea Nano Marine LED


Planning to get a Sicce pump to upgrade the return but could use help on a few things;

- Return pump suggestions?
- Additional power head suggestions?
- Keep the filter sock and just add some chemipure blue or get a media basket?
- Media reactor or refugium in the middle chamber?
- ATO and dosing suggestions?? May go DIY for the ato reservoir depending on where I put the tank.

Give me all your knowledge fellow saltwater aquarists!!!

 

[Retro Reefer]

Welcome to R2R! I have a 14 AIO and have just kept it simple.. stock pump, no skimmer, no dosing, no refugium or media reactor just run bio balls, chempure nano packets and floss in center chamber and do approximately 10% water change every 3 weeks and I do have a ATO which IMO a must have piece of equipment, my 14 gallon is a little over three years old and doing great however you will need to keep a eye on parameters and potentially dose if your doing sps

 

[KeysReefer]

Thanks for the welcome!! Beautiful tank, top down views are amazing, love the euphyllia!! Thanks for the advice and will most likely go the simple route. Where do you have your floss/chemi pure/bio balls? I’m assuming the balls in the second chamber along with the floss with the packets in the first chamber? Which ATO/reservoir did you go with? Any thoughts on dr Tim’s to help the cycle? I’ll have cured live rock in there to start with caribsea sand.