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Jamie’s IM 30L (with new pictures)


JTM1991

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So after having to move and getting rid of my IM Nuvo 20 I decided to get a new tank. I’m going to try my best to document the build in this thread. 

 

Equipment:

IM Nuvo 30l with black stand

IM stock return pump 

IM custom caddy

IM Hydrofill TI ATO, Pump, and Reservoir 

Cobalt Neotherm 100w 

Ecotech MP10QD 

2 AI Prime HD LED lights black on flexible arms 

25lb Carib Sea Life Rock 

20lb Carib Sea Fiji pink sand 

IM Protein Skimmer 

IM Media Reactor 

 

Here’s how it looked at the store when I bought it. 

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Here’s how it looked when I set it up.

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Here it is with sand.

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Now for the aquascape.

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Here it is after I added my lights and water. 

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Here it is a day after cycling. 

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Current Livestock: 

Fish:

2 Snowflake Clownfish

1 Diamond Gobi 

1 Watchman Gobi 

1 Coral Beauty Angel 

1 Red Scooter Blenny 

 

Inverts:

1 Fire Shrimp

1 Pistol Shrimp 

3 or 4 red and blue legged hermit crabs 

1 Tiger Conch snail 

3 or 4 other snails not sure the types 

 

Coral:

1 Leather(not sure what kind it’s green) 

 

Current FTS:

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On 4/8/2018 at 9:02 PM, A Little Blue said:

I like your scape. Need to put some fish in it tho lol 😉

It has some fish now! I’ll update with pictures soon! 

On 4/16/2018 at 8:51 PM, burrito said:

How’s your tank going. 

It’s going well I think I have one leather coral that is growing well I’ll post some pictures in a bit. 

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On 5/4/2018 at 11:24 AM, samnaz said:

another one bites the dust....?

Nope just got caught up in other things and forgot to update haha 

On 4/17/2018 at 12:56 AM, mystersyster said:

Tanks looks sick! Is that your only piece of furniture? ;)

It isn’t anymore I had just moved into the house and it was the first thing that went in. 

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Scape looks great! How did you possible make it from February to now without adding various corals? I had the itch to add corals before my tank was even filled with water lol

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Indiana Reefin

Patience pays off. It seems like it always takes 4-6 months before my tank completely stabilizes. It seems like most of my tank crashes usually happens around 2-3 months for me. 

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10 minutes ago, Indiana Reefin said:

Patience pays off. It seems like it always takes 4-6 months before my tank completely stabilizes. It seems like most of my tank crashes usually happens around 2-3 months for me. 

That’s what I have always heard I tried my best to get as many fish in there to make sure my filtration was all good now I’ll add the coral one at a time 

49 minutes ago, falcooo said:

Scape looks great! How did you possible make it from February to now without adding various corals? I had the itch to add corals before my tank was even filled with water lol

I have had the itch the whole time trust me it’s bad haha my issue is I want all the fish and I need to remember it’s not that big of a tank. 

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So I have been watching the tank a lot recently and with my rock scape I wasn’t getting good flow on the other side of the tank. So I upgraded the stock return pump to a Sicce 2.0 and decided to try out the IceCap gyre 1K. So far it seems to be working well the amount of water movement all around is pretty impressive. Here’s a current FTS.

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9 hours ago, specore said:

What equipment are you running?  Almost looks like you have two skimmers

 

I have an innovative marine protein skinner, and innovative marine media reactor, the sicce 2.0 return pump, auto top off, a cobalt heater, and the icecap 1K gyre pump. 

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51 minutes ago, JTM1991 said:

I have an innovative marine protein skinner, and innovative marine media reactor, the sicce 2.0 return pump, auto top off, a cobalt heater, and the icecap 1K gyre pump. 

Gotcha.  A media reactor would be nice, wish it didn't stick up so far out of the tank 

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16 hours ago, specore said:

Gotcha.  A media reactor would be nice, wish it didn't stick up so far out of the tank 

 

Yeah it is a little tall, it is all the way down too so there is no putting it lower. I’m not sure it’s doing anything though haha 

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4 minutes ago, JTM1991 said:

 

Yeah it is a little tall, it is all the way down too so there is no putting it lower. I’m not sure it’s doing anything though haha 

I assuming that is the larger of the two they make?  The desktop looks like it has a lower profile

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On 6/21/2018 at 8:03 AM, specore said:

I assuming that is the larger of the two they make?  The desktop looks like it has a lower profile

Yeah it’s not the mini one it’s the larger one. 

On 6/21/2018 at 8:15 AM, Raindog3030 said:

I dig your rock scape, very nice!  These are really cool setups, following along to see what you do with it 😉

Thank you hoping to get an anemone this weekend. 

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