UPDATE: Innovative Marines Nuvo Fusion 15 gal

[be_ninja_pancake]

Hi all! Started this tank in January (my first one!) and I figured I’d update on it. I added a Yasha goby, 1 nessarius snail, 4 blue legged hermit crabs, and 3 trochus snails this weekend. I said that my pair of clowns would be my last fish, but my partner convinced me to get the Yasha goby while we were getting some more inverts I couldn’t resist, it’s just too cute.

Tank specs: Innovative marines nuvo fusion 15 gal 3-1 tank
Kessil light

Livestock
Corals:

• 6 frags of various zoas (real steel, bam-bam, pink diamond, spyro, scrambled egg, palythoas
• 1 Radioactive branching hammer frag
• 1 Jason Fox fender bender cyphastrea
• 1 gollum platygyra frag
• 1 blueberry and oranges ricordea mushroom frag
• 1 mint stylophora frag
• 1 crimson stylocoeniella frag
• 1 hobgoblin lithophyllon frag

Fish & Inverts:

• 2 clownfish (Tom and Jerry)
• 1 yellow watchman goby (Simon)
• 1 tiger pistol shrimp (Garfunkel)
• 1 fire dart fish (Phoenix)
• 1 yasha goby (Amaranth)
• 1 Halloween hermit crab (Mr. Krabs)
• 2 red legged hermit crabs (Sebastian and Tamatoa)
• 3 nessarius snails (Rob Zombie, Clash, and Metallica)
• 3 trochus snails (Curly, Larry, and Moe)
• 4 blue legged hermit crabs (Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde)
• 1 sand sifting sea star (Patrick)

Water Parameters for Today (3/27/23)
NO3-: 0ppm
NO2-: 0ppm
pH: 8.2
KH: 10 drops or 179ppm
NH3/NH4+: 0-0.25ppn
PO4(3-): 0ppm
Ca2+: 420ppm or 21 drops
Salinity: 1.023
Temp: 28C or 82F

Front of tank:

Right side:

Left side:

Top view:

Side note: I know Patrick is missing a few limbs, he’ll be ok tho, he’s been healing good and is still very active in the tank.

Amaranth the Yasha goby:

Bonus pic of Amaranth looking like he’s screaming (the low quality makes the picture funnier in my opinion):

 

[Tuan’s Reef]

Looking good! I have the same tank in my office. Keep us updated with your progress

 

[LiLinka]

Raise the salinity to 1.025-1.026. 1.023 is recommended for fish only, for coral it’s a little low. Temp is also a little high in my opinion it’s tolerated by coral and fish but I find around 78 F is perfect. Your nitrate is also low I like the 15-15 PPM range. As far as phosphates they are low as well. You need some nutrients in the water .03-.09 is recommended. Otherwise you will have issues with cyano and Dino’s as a result of 0 nutrients. As well as some coral that like the dirtier water like zoas. I would maybe try some turbos or astrea as well to help spice up the cleanup crew. Overall you have a beautiful tank there and are doing an amazing job! Happy reefing!

 

[Ober_Reef]

Great Tank! Just started the cycle on mine yesterday ! Excited to follow your build, to agree with what other have said I do also think you need to bring those nutrients up especially with the corals you currently have. Maybe reduce skim time to help ! Best of luck !

 

[be_ninja_pancake]

Looking good! I have the same tank in my office. Keep us updated with your progress

Thank you! I also have mine in my home office.

 

[be_ninja_pancake]

Raise the salinity to 1.025-1.026. 1.023 is recommended for fish only, for coral it’s a little low. Temp is also a little high in my opinion it’s tolerated by coral and fish but I find around 78 F is perfect. Your nitrate is also low I like the 15-15 PPM range. As far as phosphates they are low as well. You need some nutrients in the water .03-.09 is recommended. Otherwise you will have issues with cyano and Dino’s as a result of 0 nutrients. As well as some coral that like the dirtier water like zoas. I would maybe try some turbos or astrea as well to help spice up the cleanup crew. Overall you have a beautiful tank there and are doing an amazing job! Happy reefing!

Thank you so much for all the good advice! I guess I kinda just assumed most of the numbers except for salinity, calcium, and temp that I test for every week should be lower numbers I’ll turn off the protein skimmer for now to get more nutrients in my tank, add more salt to the water before I pour it in, and I realized that the sticker temp is off, the actual temp of the tank is 79F. Again, I appreciate all that you’ve said! I will keep this thread updated.

 

[be_ninja_pancake]

Great Tank! Just started the cycle on mine yesterday ! Excited to follow your build, to agree with what other have said I do also think you need to bring those nutrients up especially with the corals you currently have. Maybe reduce skim time to help ! Best of luck !

Thank you so much! Yeah, I’ll turn off the protein skimmer for now or at least limit its use.

 

[immo]

Do you shop local? I’m about an hour away from you and we have no stores. Curious if there are some there.

 

[be_ninja_pancake]

Do you shop local? I’m about an hour away from you and we have no stores. Curious if there are some there.

I do! I either go to the Christiansburg Petco (the staff are very knowledgable and the fish I got there are very healthy) or Alien Aquatics in Roanoke. Love going to Alien over weekends for RO fresh and saltwater, super nice guys that work there