NUVO 20 Reboot - SPS Dominant

[Dfw.corals]

Really nice setup - that Blasto looks really happy! Wish I could get mine to puff up like that lol

I thought it was under my badge, but just in case here it is....lol don't laugh too much it's nothing like yours....

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/my-nuvo-im-20.733702/#post-7641555

 

[Drizzieee]

Trust me not hard at all mostly stability and it goes a long way.

 

[teamschreiba]

Looks great! I’m trying something similar with a lot of SPS in a nano with no sump/skimmer. What’s your current fish stocking? Looks like at least a clownfish and damsel?

 

[Dfw.corals]

Pretty sure I have some kind of trace element deficiency. Still trying to figure out what it is. I probably should do an ICP test lol

 

[Dfw.corals]

Thanks schreiba! I keep a clownfish, cleaner goby, and springeri damsel. I’d like to add a tail spot Benny but haven’t seen one in months. The bio load is way too little from these guys so I dump all sorts of food into the tank

 

[teamschreiba]

Nice! Tail spot blennies do seem to have a ton of personality.

What are you feeding? I’m having to add reef roids to my tank given I only have 1 orchid dottyback in a 17g to try and keep the phosphates off of zero.

 

[Dfw.corals]

Nice! Tail spot blennies do seem to have a ton of personality.

What are you feeding? I’m having to add reef roids to my tank given I only have 1 orchid dottyback in a 17g to try and keep the phosphates off of zero.

I feed the fish flake food and mysis. Corals get phyto, reef energy ab+ daily, and reef roids occasionally. I also picked up some zeovit zeobak, sponge power, flatworm stop, and coral vitalizer that I started today. I’m not sure if any of them do anything but the tank seems happy so I’m sticking with it lol

 

[Dfw.corals]

Took a little over a month but the brown pearlberry is starting to pick up green polyps and some contrast in the body.

 

[Dfw.corals]

Updated FTS after changing the scape a little. Moved the arch all the way to back to give the tank some more depth. Corals are doing great!

 

[Dfw.corals]

Walt Disney coming along, almost fully encrusting the plug.

Pearlberry starting to show the “pearl” effect.

2 months of growth on the tester frag

Tester frag #2 picking up purples. Check out that polyp extension!

 

[Dfw.corals]

Small update...switching over to a G5 XR30 dramatically improved coverage of the tank. Also picked up some new goodies locally.

Night time shots!

 

[teamschreiba]

Corals look like they’re doing great! I bet you have a ton of PAR with an XR30 now too.

 

[Dfw.corals]

Thanks friend! It definitely packs a punch. Very happy with the light so far!

 

[Dfw.corals]

Some Sunday top down shots!

 

[Dfw.corals]

Had a water change mishap (3 rtn’d down to a few polyps but has started recovering). Everything is still chugging along!

 

[Dfw.corals]

 

[Dfw.corals]

Top down shots. Pretty happy with the 4 month progress

 

[Dfw.corals]

Wondering why my nitrates dropped to zero...looks like all the nutrients went into this algae I just pulled out lol

 

[Dfw.corals]

The algae battle continues! Spent a couple hours scraping and pulling out every last bit of algae. Began dosing vibrant and picked up an icecap skimmer

 

[Dfw.corals]