Innovative Marine 30L build Thread

Burrito · May 3, 2018

So i have been out of the reef hobby for about a decade and have since had done a lot of the adult stuff (kids, house, job) and have some time again to get back in. The kids helped convince the wife! Gotta have nemo. so here we go. pics on iphone x, need to figure this aspect out better

Current FTS

Current Equipment:

Tank: IM Fusion 30 L
Light: AI Prime HD x2
Return pump: IM mighty jet (midsize)
Wave pump: MP10wQD x 2
Heater: Neo-therm 100w
Filtration: InTank Media basket with InTank floss, purigen, chemi blue, InTank Floss holder w/ InTank floss
Reactor: IM midsize reactor w/carbon and seachem phosgaurd
Skimmer: IM midsize ghost skimmer
Brains: reefkeeper lite w/ph probe too
Doser: yet to start but jaebo, will does for ca, alk, and mg
Auto Top off: autoaqua smart ATO micro with a 5 gal home depot bucket for the rodi- this lasts me about 2 weeks
RODI: BRS 4 stage 75gpd
Salt: Red Sea Coral Pro

15lbs caribsea life rock
30lbs fiji pink live sand
1 block marine pure under filter floss holder

Live stuff:

Snowflake clown mated pair x2
Various snails from reefkeepers.org
Monti cap
garf purple bonsai
random pocillipora
neon green hammer
toxic purple hammer
povona frag
sand dollar monti frag
zoas

Old/replaced Stuff:

IM wavelink DC pump midsize- worked awesome but got a good deal on the MP10s, i would say this is much stronger than the ecotech and at full blast has a very minimal hum
Sicce 1.5 return pump- worked great and super quiet, replaced with the mightyjet

Setup

getting wet

clearing up

random live stock photos

i'll get an under cabinet shot later today.

Tahoe61 · May 3, 2018

Great scape.

Where did you position the aquasmart ATO sensor?

Burrito · May 3, 2018

it is in the middle (return) chamber just. my water in the return sits about 1.5 inches below the outer chambers. i would say it turn on for 1-2 seconds every half hour or so and takes 2 weeks to go through a 5 gal reservoir

Burrito · May 6, 2018

Under cabinet , need to setup my doser now.

I added intank skimmer covers. Probably added 2-3 gallons of water and a more pleasing waterline. Might take some backout. Worries about a rouge wave overflowing.

The waterline is currently about 1/4 from the top. I had to move the screen top clips up a little so it doesn’t sit in the water.

samnaz · May 6, 2018

Very nice! Happy to see another 30L around these parts.

mta_morrow · May 6, 2018

Very nice! My first reef was the IM30L. I absolutely loved it.

Nice scape going on too. I placed my ato sensor right where you did and never had an issue with it.

Burrito · May 8, 2018

oh boy! Christmas came early

Burrito · May 14, 2018

so my tank had a small diatom outbreak and my stylophoro above is not extending any polyps, happened pretty fast after i notices a snail at the base of it. over an hour the polyps retracted from the base up. any chance the 2 incidents are related to the same thing? or different reasons for the 2 things happening?

ammonia- 0
nitrite-0
nitrate- 20
salinity- 1.026 (rodi tds 0 water)
temp- 78

i have a few random strings of brown hair algea coming from the monti cap but and some green "moss" around the base of frag plugs.

i do 25% water changes every thursday night. should i do a 50% change to help lower nitrates? if so all at once? or 2 25% WCs in 2 days?

the polyps this morning are slightly back out so maybe it was just irritated. this is the lighting schedule i have it on.

side questions, i noticed a few of these snails are stuck to glass (or another snail in this example) REALLY extended out of their shells. normal?

Burrito · May 14, 2018

Added a few more lbs of rock and rescape
Still need to decide where the different corals types should live.

Burrito · May 17, 2018

Setup a quarantine

NY_Caveman · May 17, 2018

Nice idea. Only issue, I believe a QT needs to be at least 10’ from the display or there is risk of airborne transfer.

@Humblefish is this correct? Thanks!

samnaz · May 17, 2018

NY_Caveman said:
Nice idea. Only issue, I believe a QT needs to be at least 10’ from the display or there is risk of airborne transfer.

@Humblefish is this correct? Thanks!

Whoa that’s crazy, never knew that.

Burrito · May 17, 2018

New fish! Golden Midas blenny and exquisite firefish
A little shy in the QT

Pom pom is in the DT already.

Humblefish · May 18, 2018

NY_Caveman said:
Nice idea. Only issue, I believe a QT needs to be at least 10’ from the display or there is risk of airborne transfer.

@Humblefish is this correct? Thanks!

Yes: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/aerosol-transmission.190292/

Burrito · May 22, 2018

New fish additions

Gold midas and exquisite firefist from the divers den (liveaquaria)

there is an ORA watchmen goby (about an inch) in there too but i haven't seen him after the first hour i put him. any need to worry? been 3 days now.

infinite0180 · May 22, 2018

Any more thoughts on those intank surface skimmers? I was considering them as a way to prevent my two little clowns from going into the overflow... do you think they would help? I have the IM20.

Burrito · May 22, 2018

i dont know if it will help a skinny fish, for preventing fish from going over i would look at the IM fish guards since i think they are more of a crosshatch pattern. i bought this from intank for the sole purpose of raising my water line which it does perfectly. probably added another 2-3 gallons of water volume too.