Hi all! I'm so excited to start my build thread for this tank.
A little background about me first - I've been keeping freshwater fish for the past 12 years, planted tanks for the last 6 or so. I started planning a nano reef last spring but ended up travelling out of the country suddenly; now that I'm back in one place for the foreseeable I decided to make it happen.
Setup:
IM Nuvo Fusion Pro 14 peninsula
Started with about 6lbs of dry rock, and 2lbs of wet rock from my LFS (I won't call it 'live' since there's not much on it but I figured it'd seed my bacteria colonies!), and 20lbs Fiji pink sand. Will try to get some photos after I get everything rinsed out and ready for use!
I plan to keep a pistol shrimp/goby pair as the main livestock of the tank. My anticipated CUC would be dwarf hermits, nassarius snails, and dwarf ceriths.
All that said, I definitely have a few questions!
First, anyone else who has this tank or similar - I was sent 2 power supplies for the pump; is that normal or a mistake? I can't find any reference to it in the manual.
Also, I can't quite figure out how to remove the pump, and I'm sure it must be possible for cleaning. Could someone be so kind as to give me a quick walkthrough of the back compartments?
Would the middle compartment, where the filter sock is placed, be the correct area to put a heater (with the sock removed, I imagine!)?
I understand bristle worms are very beneficial, but they are also rather frightening! How essential would you consider them to be?
And finally - would dwarf hermits be happy to eat fish food or seaweed strips, if I wanted to get some early before I have much algae?
Thank you very much for following this journey with me!
A little background about me first - I've been keeping freshwater fish for the past 12 years, planted tanks for the last 6 or so. I started planning a nano reef last spring but ended up travelling out of the country suddenly; now that I'm back in one place for the foreseeable I decided to make it happen.
Setup:
IM Nuvo Fusion Pro 14 peninsula
Started with about 6lbs of dry rock, and 2lbs of wet rock from my LFS (I won't call it 'live' since there's not much on it but I figured it'd seed my bacteria colonies!), and 20lbs Fiji pink sand. Will try to get some photos after I get everything rinsed out and ready for use!
I plan to keep a pistol shrimp/goby pair as the main livestock of the tank. My anticipated CUC would be dwarf hermits, nassarius snails, and dwarf ceriths.
All that said, I definitely have a few questions!
First, anyone else who has this tank or similar - I was sent 2 power supplies for the pump; is that normal or a mistake? I can't find any reference to it in the manual.
Also, I can't quite figure out how to remove the pump, and I'm sure it must be possible for cleaning. Could someone be so kind as to give me a quick walkthrough of the back compartments?
Would the middle compartment, where the filter sock is placed, be the correct area to put a heater (with the sock removed, I imagine!)?
I understand bristle worms are very beneficial, but they are also rather frightening! How essential would you consider them to be?
And finally - would dwarf hermits be happy to eat fish food or seaweed strips, if I wanted to get some early before I have much algae?
Thank you very much for following this journey with me!