Grand Nano Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Hello all, I have been a member of this community for quite some time and have never documented any of my tanks. Recently, I purchased an IM Nuvo 38 gallon and thought this would be a perfect opportunity to do a build thread. This is my 6th tank during my 10 years of being in this hobby. I started with a 12 gallon. Progressed to a JBJ Nanocube 28 gallon, then took a huge leap and set up a 225 gallon, downgraded to a Red Sea Max 34 gallon, then a 90 gallon and now this 38 gallon. All have been mixed reef tanks, but I must say that this Nuvo 38 is by far my favorite in terms of build quality and overall simplistic yet efficient design. I hope you enjoy seeing tons of pics. Disclaimer (lol)…these first set of pics aren’t the greatest of quality as they were either taken with my crappy camera phone or with a Kodak Playsport. Pictures will get better once I get the nice camera out of the closet and charge the battery. And although I have already typed a short novel (lol), I will let pictures do most of the talking during the thread. Now, on with the show! TANK AND STAND Innovative Marine 38 gallon AIO (23.62x19x19) Innovative Marine black stand (23.62x19x36) LIGHTING JBJ 54 watt LED unibody dimmable CIRCULATION 1x Vortech Mp-10es CONTROLLER Reefkeeper Plus w/sl1 and ph probe AUTO TOP-OFF JBJ ATO w/aqualifter pump and 5 gallon rodi water reservoir RO/DI UNIT BRS 5 stage rodi w/pressure gauge and built in tds meter ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT Titanium heater Piranha Float Magnet Refractometer Link to comment
Grand Nano Posted December 6, 2012 Author Share Posted December 6, 2012 Xmas present to myself, nice and wrapped. Thank you Mr. Delivery Man..no one will ever suspect a thing. lol. What was it you ask? This : ) Link to comment
StevieT Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Thank you Mr. Delivery Man..no one will ever suspect a thing. lol. Link to comment
Grand Nano Posted December 6, 2012 Author Share Posted December 6, 2012 Went with well established, pest free rock and new "live" sand and came up with this rockscape. Have since removed that middle rock to get more of an open look to the tank. Member Gena was nice enough and very generous and gave me some free macros that included this red macro algae and some blue ochtodes. went through a very short "cycle" and started transferring some of my corals that my gf was coral sitting for me. All are doing great and starting to grow. Link to comment
Grand Nano Posted December 6, 2012 Author Share Posted December 6, 2012 picked up these beauties from mike at sexy corals Link to comment
Summoner12 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Thank you Mr. Delivery Man..no one will ever suspect a thing. lol. My UPS guy does this too! haha. We give him a good tip at the end of the year in a card. We moved within the same apt. complex and he even takes care of our packages that go to the old apt. Link to comment
BusterDB Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Looks like you are off to a good start. Cool Frogspawn and that RBTA is sweet but would look even better with a clown swimming in it Link to comment
Grand Nano Posted December 7, 2012 Author Share Posted December 7, 2012 My UPS guy does this too! haha. We give him a good tip at the end of the year in a card. We moved within the same apt. complex and he even takes care of our packages that go to the old apt. That's cool..i just thought it was funny because there are always packages in front of neighbors' homes and no one steals them so i just thought that it was weird that i had a package under the mat. lol Looks like you are off to a good start. Cool Frogspawn and that RBTA is sweet but would look even better with a clown swimming in it yeah, tell that to my onyx clown that has decided to make his home in the couple of torches in the tank. grrr. lol Link to comment
rgs2 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Looks great! I also have a IM 38 and love it. Link to comment
Grand Nano Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 Looks great! I also have a IM 38 and love it. thanks...it's a great tank. i'm loving it so far. picked up a real bright Orange wall hammer from Reefer's Cove this weekend. It's amazing and have never seen a hammer this color. Link to comment
Grand Nano Posted December 12, 2012 Author Share Posted December 12, 2012 let's get this show on the road with some decent pics. Money shot time! Link to comment
xcountryx Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 I know this is an old post but I have to ask what is that bright red/orange fan looking coral right in the middle? Link to comment
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