Welcome to Lenny's Lagoon - IM NUVO 25 Lagoon Rimless

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Latest FTS 14MAY2019:


And with night time blues:


Hi all! I upgraded from an IM Fusion 10 in August of 2018, and the new tank's been growing in quite nicely. I just returned from RAP Orlando with prodigious frag haul, and Harry (Theharold) encouraged me to put a thread together for my new(ish) tank.

Equipment list:
IM NUVO 25 Lagoon Rimless
- Nanobox Duo
- CPR 800 GPH overflow
- 2 chinesium power heads (with incompatible controllers, natch)
ESHOPPS CUBE Nano Refugium
- Bubble Magus Curve5
- ESHOPPS Curve Refugium Light
- Sketchy af LED grow light strips
- A return pump of some kind
Apex Classic (courtesy of Theharold)
- Autonomous Aquatics custom Toggle Box (SO COOL)
Custom ATO of my own design

Livestock:
Leonard - A very bite-y misbar clown
Susan - An adorable snowflake clown with a split left pectoral fin
Buddy - A deeply strange pygmy filefish
Stephan - An amiable skunk cleaner shrimp
Frank - A court jester goby
3 sexy shrimp
one pom pom crab
Lots of coral!
A dedicated and hard working clean up crew, including a fighting conch (oddly quite the pacifist) and a blue tuxedo urchin

The primary purpose of this thread is to have a journal of monthly FTSs - if anyone's interested in my custom ATO/general setup, I'm happy to post pics of that as well.

08APR2019: RAP frags in tank but not yet mounted:

 

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I was recently gifted an IceCap lens filter kit, so I've been experimenting with shooting under my evening lighting:


One of my new plates! Love the orange/purple combo


Stephan always lurking in the back... you can see the mini bounce I picked up on the bottom right-ish!


Susan looking coy over my ric bed...


That plate on the far right has been moved to my tank for rehab - it was partially buried in the sand bed of a very bright tank (not naming any names...)


My first chalice coral right in the middle there - I love the texture


FTS! blues feel like cheating

 

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As far as livestock/general future plans go, I have a few things in mind:

- bring the torch on the far left back to the LFS, as it's quite big when fully extended and mostly brownish green
- extend the left side of my rock scape and get those zoa frags off my sand bed
- purchase a court jester/old glory goby, mostly to look cool but also to do some algae nibbling

Thoughts?

 

[TheHarold]

Looking sick! Tons of corals.... an upgrade will be in order within a year!

 

[Ranjib]

Welcome to reef2reef . Awesome tank setup . We just have to wait and see it grow out

 

[GSLV]

Looking sick! Tons of corals.... an upgrade will be in order within a year!

Such a bad influence you just convinced me to upgrade last year!

 

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Ordered new livestock last night!

- Pom Pom Crab
- Court Jester Goby
- 3x Sexy Shrimp

Very excited will post pics tomorrow when they come in!

 

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New livestock is in!


The Court Jester Goby is really striking in person, I love the orange


The new inverts getting to know each other - that pom pom crab is not afraid to throw a few 'nem punches to keep its personal space!

 

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Did some re-scaping on the left side of my tank - traded in the torch at my LFS for a Scoly (hopefully it will color up a bit...), added some rubble for my new zoas to grow out in and as a hiding nook for the Court Jester Goby (recently christening "Frank").

FTS:




Frank!



My pygmy filefish Buddy is a master photobomber:

 

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Monthly update!



FTS first:





Night time blues:





My LFS Scoly starting to color up:





Ric garden/clown bed, featuring my tiny little bounce in the lower left:





RFAs are pretty happy! Been feeding regularly - there's a beautiful rasta one that has scooched around to the left and is impossible to see from the front





Acan rock is starting to fill in nicely:

 

[lbacha]

Very nice tank

I have to follow this since I have a 25 nuvo black and my name is Lenny aka lbacha as well

Len