teejay Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Hi there, New to the forum, and to the world of smaller reefs. I got back into the whole scene about a year ago with my old 180G, and over christmas I decided I would start up a nano, immediately falling in love with the 30L. I bought the tank, and some fresh dry rock, and starting curing the rock and used my 180 to cycle it, adding it to the sump, while I collected the remaining equipment for start up. About 2 weeks ago, I added water, sand, and transferred some of the rock for my initial rockscape that I'm not completely sure I'll stick with, but my gf likes it so it'll stay like that for a while. All tests have been good over the period, so I added some snails and am gonna move some frags over from my frag tank shortly to get started, so here is my build thread: Tank: IM Fusion 30L Stand: IM Fusion 30L Stock Black Cabinet Stand Filtration: 2 InTank 30L Media Baskets running Chemi-Pure Elite and Purigen Skimmer: Tunze 9004 Reactor: IM Midsize Lighting: Ecotech Radion XR30w with Wide Angle Lenses ATO: Tunze Osmolator Universal 3155 Heater: Eheim Jager 100w (had one lying around, gonna switch to something short enough for the back) Flow: Ecotech MP10es (plans to add a QD) Substrate: Caribsea SeaFlor Reef Sand Rock: Tonga Shelf, Pukani Livestock: 2 Lightning Maroon Clownfish Assorted Nassarius and Trochus Snails Tubbs Blue Zoas Red with Green eye favia Sunny D's Branching Hammes (Green, Gold, Purple/Green) Aussie golden torch Ultra Rainbow Rastas Blue ring zoas Utter chaos Rainbow open brain White velvet paly Candy crush Red with green mouthed blastos Blue ultra maxima clam Green octospawn Vivid Rainbow palys Current FTS: (March 21, 2015: Lightning Maroons/Frags/CUC/More Rock) First FTS: (March 1, 2015: Just rock, and CUC) Link to comment
LongDoggy Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Really digging the IM 30l. Will be following along to see how things develop. Link to comment
teejay Posted March 11, 2015 Author Share Posted March 11, 2015 Added some livestock a couple days ago: 2 lightning maroon clowns Link to comment
teejay Posted March 21, 2015 Author Share Posted March 21, 2015 Added a bit more rock to the tank and added a few frags and took a couple extra photos after the diatoms stage died down and the rock looks a lot cleaner now. Link to comment
kawtipin Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 looks great I just picked up a im 30L im ordering the bits and pieces now. cant wait beautiful tank.! Link to comment
teejay Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 Thanks, I just got a few new corals for it this morning, so pics to come soon. Link to comment
teejay Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 Couple pics of some new additions today: Ultra rasta zoas and an open brain Link to comment
teejay Posted April 6, 2015 Author Share Posted April 6, 2015 A few pictures from today: blasto colony, vivid rainbows and a new acan: Link to comment
Addinali Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Nice tank and clowns. I'm thinking about getting a 30l or a 40. How do you like yours? Link to comment
kawtipin Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 how did the Tunze 9004 go in? I put the tunze9001 in my and It fit in the middle compartment like a glove. I am supper happy with it but a larger skimmer would be nice too. Also one other question how do you like your light? do you get a good light spread to the far corners of your tank? I have a 30l too thats why im asking. thanks Link to comment
reefernanoman Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Hi there, New to the forum, and to the world of smaller reefs. I got back into the whole scene about a year ago with my old 180G, and over christmas I decided I would start up a nano, immediately falling in love with the 30L. I bought the tank, and some fresh dry rock, and starting curing the rock and used my 180 to cycle it, adding it to the sump, while I collected the remaining equipment for start up. About 2 weeks ago, I added water, sand, and transferred some of the rock for my initial rockscape that I'm not completely sure I'll stick with, but my gf likes it so it'll stay like that for a while. All tests have been good over the period, so I added some snails and am gonna move some frags over from my frag tank shortly to get started, so here is my build thread: Tank: IM Fusion 30L Stand: IM Fusion 30L Stock Black Cabinet Stand Filtration: 2 InTank 30L Media Baskets running Chemi-Pure Elite and Purigen Skimmer: Tunze 9004 Reactor: IM Midsize Lighting: Ecotech Radion XR30w with Wide Angle Lenses ATO: Tunze Osmolator Universal 3155 Heater: Eheim Jager 100w (had one lying around, gonna switch to something short enough for the back) Flow: Ecotech MP10es (plans to add a QD) Substrate: Caribsea SeaFlor Reef Sand Rock: Tonga Shelf, Tonga Branch, Pukani Livestock: 2 Lightning Maroon Clownfish Assorted Nassarius and Trochus Snails Tubbs Blue Zoas Red with Green eye favia Sunny D's Orange Bam Bam Zoas Euphyllia paradivisia Aussie golden torch Ultra Rainbow Rastas Blue ring zoas Utter chaos Rainbow open brain White velvet paly Candy crush Chiquitas zoas Current FTS: (March 21, 2015: Lightning Maroons/Frags/CUC/More Rock) First FTS: (March 1, 2015: Just rock, and CUC) Nice long Fusion Tank! I love it. Link to comment
teejay Posted April 10, 2015 Author Share Posted April 10, 2015 Nice tank and clowns. I'm thinking about getting a 30l or a 40. How do you like yours? Love it, it's really sleek and I haven't had a single problem with it thus far, very easy to access the back chambers and clean around in there during water changes, would definitely recommend length over depth. how did the Tunze 9004 go in? I put the tunze9001 in my and It fit in the middle compartment like a glove. I am supper happy with it but a larger skimmer would be nice too. Also one other question how do you like your light? do you get a good light spread to the far corners of your tank? I have a 30l too thats why im asking. thanks The 9004 fits perfectly into a chamber where a media basket should be, but the fit is snug and it's easy to get the water level where it should be there, not really sure what the depth needed for the 9001 is so can't really comment on that. I'm really pleased with the radion as well, the colors have been great and a couple brown-er corals I got at a frag swap that I took a chance on have colored up really nice, mainly the blasto picture from above, looked terrible when I got it. The light spread is pretty good as well, but I am using the 120 wide angle lenses. Link to comment
teejay Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 Doing a water change decided to take a couple pics of some recent additions including aussie gold torch and blue maxima clam Link to comment
GTi Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Tank looks great! Nice Clownfish and corals too. I love the dimensions of the 30L. Please check the rock your Rastas came in on. It looks like there's some red algae on there and if its what came in to my tank on a snail shell, it will spread like crazy. It might be Gelidium or some other red turf algae. My clean up crew won't touch it but removing the rock from the tank and dripping peroxide on it seems to work. Mine has spread too much but I hope you can catch yours! Link to comment
teejay Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 Tank looks great! Nice Clownfish and corals too. I love the dimensions of the 30L. Please check the rock your Rastas came in on. It looks like there's some red algae on there and if its what came in to my tank on a snail shell, it will spread like crazy. It might be Gelidium or some other red turf algae. My clean up crew won't touch it but removing the rock from the tank and dripping peroxide on it seems to work. Mine has spread too much but I hope you can catch yours! Thanks. As for the rock the rastas came on, it's just the purple covered rock, if you're talking about that little thing to the right of the rastas in the picture, that's actually a shell type thing that was encrusted onto the dry rock, not algae and very hard. Link to comment
GTi Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Thanks. As for the rock the rastas came on, it's just the purple covered rock, if you're talking about that little thing to the right of the rastas in the picture, that's actually a shell type thing that was encrusted onto the dry rock, not algae and very hard. I meant the rock directly under the Rastas. I thought I could see strands running across it in the photo. Maybe I'm paranoid now! Anyway, tank looks really nice and I'm sure it will only get better with time! Link to comment
teejay Posted May 12, 2015 Author Share Posted May 12, 2015 Ah I see what you mean and not sure what that is exactly. The only algae issue I had was some green algae from a phosphate issue I've since cleared up. I'm pretty paranoid about anything getting into my tank as well though. Link to comment
GTi Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Ah I see what you mean and not sure what that is exactly. The only algae issue I had was some green algae from a phosphate issue I've since cleared up. I'm pretty paranoid about anything getting into my tank as well though. Try taking a look under a magnifying glass. If there are threads, it's probably the algae. You could try spot treating it outside the tank with peroxide or frag the zoas off and glue directly to the live rock and ditch the piece of rock they came on. Trouble is when you frag the zoas you'll want to take a little of the rock surface that they are attached to and that may take the algae with it. Zoas aren't bothered long term by 3% peroxide. If you decide to do this, swish them around so they close up. Doing this reduces their exposure to the peroxide in the next step. Remove the frag from the tank, then apply the peroxide liberally with a dropper all around the rubble rock, including next to the zoas. The zoas may fizz where it touches them but I have never lost any. They may act PO'd for a day or so but often not even that. Wait 3 minutes. Rinse in some old tank water and replace. It should go bright orange after 5 days or so and your CUC is more likely to eat it once it is weakened. While this might not be Gelidium, I can't think of any risk to treating it except any coraline on that piece of rock may bleach out for a while. Link to comment
teejay Posted May 28, 2015 Author Share Posted May 28, 2015 Haven't updated in a while, especially a full tank shot now that I've been adding a lot more coral over the past couple months, will try to get one up tonight. I had taken one with my phone but it was potato quality and I couldn't for the life of me figure out any way to make it not look awful. A few recent additions that I'll try to make pics of as well in the near future, all zoas or palys: Blue hornets, fruit loops, true my clementines, psychosis, dragon ball z, blue steel, blues clues, devils hornets, yellow brick road, horizons, gold mauls, scrambled eggs, emeralds on fire There's been quite a different rescape as well as I was trying to place some of the corals and they needed a bit more room to grow, so many pictures to come soon . Link to comment
teejay Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 As promised, here are a few pictures of some of my recent frag additions as well as a new full tank shot, sorry for the potato quality color, I'm still definitely far from a pro at setting my camera to get the color right, any tips of that would help as well and FTS slightly cluttered while I figure out where I want everything long term, very indecisive: Link to comment
justinreefs Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Hey Teejay, nice setup. I have the same setup, 9004, radion, and desktop reactor. I recently ran into issues with aiptasia and now gha. Anyways, I had a few questions for you because it seems you have a good balance in your tank. What schedule/percent are you running on your radion? Whats your maintenance schedule? Filter/gfo/carbon changeout? WC? Also, do you dose/supplement? Sorry for all the questions, any advice would be much appreciated. Link to comment
teejay Posted June 1, 2015 Author Share Posted June 1, 2015 Hey Teejay, nice setup. I have the same setup, 9004, radion, and desktop reactor. I recently ran into issues with aiptasia and now gha. Anyways, I had a few questions for you because it seems you have a good balance in your tank. What schedule/percent are you running on your radion? Whats your maintenance schedule? Filter/gfo/carbon changeout? WC? Also, do you dose/supplement? Sorry for all the questions, any advice would be much appreciated. Hey Justin, First of all, thanks. For the radions, I'm just running for 12 hours a day at about 50% max with wide angle lenses. The schedule changes throughout the day and is mostly 20k, but each led is dialed back a little bit. Maintenance isn't very much right now, I gave the sandbed a little vacuum when I rescaped but other than that nothing. I haven't had to empty out my 9004 in a while, it's been getting less and less full as the tank has been aging. I haven't changed out my chemi-pure or purigen since I started, but planning on changing them out sometime in June. I have a ball on chaeto growing in the back that was getting halved once a week, but it's been about 3 weeks since I halved it the last time. GFO generally gets changed once every 2 weeks during a water change. And I change 10 gallons every 2 weeks roughly. The only thing I've been dosing is alkalinity since it's been the only thing that water changes aren't taking care of for me. Link to comment
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