Nuvo 10 gallon SPS tank

[drew350]

Decide to finally make a post on my 9 month old Nuvo 10 gallon tank. My goal is to make this tank mostly SPS with a few zoa's and a couple other corals. Started with few low end SPS a couple of chalices, milles and a few zoas been having my ups and my downs of course. I Would like to try and update and record any progress in here has much has I can good or bad. So let see how it goes. Any tips and suggestions are more then welcome and hopefully it will help out another fellow reefers. Happy Reefing

Display: Nuvo 10 Gallon
Rock: 5 pounds of live Rock
Lighting: AI prime 16 HD
Heater: Eheim Jager 150w
Circulation: Jaebo powerhead and Upgraded return pump
ATO: Tunze 3152
Filtration: Filter Floss
Tank Modifications: DIY Chaeto Reactor

Parameters
Alkalinity- 10 dkh
Calcium- ?
Mag-?
Nitrate- 5-10 ppm
Phosphate- 0.02


This was my tank back in MAY 2019

This is my Tank FEB 2020

 

[drew350]

Here are a few close ups

 

[drew350]

and here are some softies

 

[drew350]

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[ZipAdeeZoa]

Looking good! Can't wait to see how it fills in!

 

[Tahoe61]

Boy those zoanthids are stunning.

 

[ryan-23]

Nice Tank! How do you you like the bare bottom!?

 

[drew350]

Looking good! Can't wait to see how it fills in!

Thanks, I like it a lot better to be honest. Not has much maintenance I have to perform on my tank

 

[drew350]

Updated:

So Unfortunately at the moment I'm experiencing some problems with some nuisance algae which has taken over my rock and experiencing some shadowing with some of my corals

N03 - 10ppm
P04 - 0.00ppm

What I ended up doing was adding a clean up crew (snails,crabs) to help combat the GHA (Since I only have one turbo snail) plus feed less and move some of the corals so they can get the proper lighting but seems like some didn't make it.

Now I'm thinking that I may need to change my light. I was looking into 3 options getting another AI Prime 16HD or Hydra 32 or something totally different.

What do you guys suggest?

 

[Tahoe61]

Sorry to hear of your frustration.

I do not think it is the lightning. The light you have should be fine for that size
tank.
Maybe look at Kessel fixtures.
I ran a Hydra on a 20 gallon if I had it to do over I would have gone with Kessil.
I would add some small types hermits and definitely add more snails types.

 

[drew350]

Sorry to hear of your frustration.

I do not think it is the lightning. The light you have should be fine for that size
tank.
Maybe look at Kessel fixtures.
I ran a Hydra on a 20 gallon if I had it to do over I would have gone with Kessil.
I would add some small types hermits and definitely add more snails types.

Ok, thanks the suggestion

I mean I'm still going to kept the light for the time being and try other methods

just want to hear about other people experiences with this kind of thing

 

[ISFNick]

Looks good man! Keep up with those water changes!
The great thing about smaller tanks is that so many problems can be solved so easily with 50% water changes!