IM Nuvo Peninsula 14

[reefy]

Hi Reefers,
My name is Sean, first of all, I want to apologize for my bad English because is not my first language. Due to cost of living and space limitation. I have been in the saltwater hobby for 16 years. I have been down sizing from 180g to 120g to a 29 BioCube and now to a nuvo 14 peninsula. I had a hard time to decide on getting the nuvo 10 or the nuvo 14.

Tank: Innovative Marine Nuvo 14 peninsula
Stand: custom made “floating concept wanna-be”
Light: Ai Prime HD, $2 cheap led for chaeto in chamber 2
Skimmer: Mame Nano skimmer
ATO: Duetto ATO
Heater: Aqueon heater
Rock: 10kg of STAX rocks
Return pump: Tunze 1073.008 from my BioCube
Wavemaker: Jaebao SOW-4
Misc : intank media rack from nuvo 8 (had to modified to fit into the peninsula)

Livestock:
Bare bottom for the first time (not liking so far)
-saving up to buy a long fin black ice to pair up with my ultra premium black ice that I have in my BioCube
-mostly Colourful corals

[reefy]

I don’t know why is so hard in this forum to post pictures, why can’t we just upload photos straight from our phone. This is why I don’t use Canreef to share my builds lol...

[reefy]

https://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn12/seantsephotography/713D8000-9C05-4DD6-AFC5-28550E96F626_zpsedn47m14.jpeg (http://s300.photobucket.com/user/seantsephotography/media/713D8000-9C05-4DD6-AFC5-28550E96F626_zpsedn47m14.jpeg.html)

https://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn12/seantsephotography/966E694C-DDCB-4BE5-906F-C2D5F5FC0988_zpsrf19sg7b.jpeg (http://s300.photobucket.com/user/seantsephotography/media/966E694C-DDCB-4BE5-906F-C2D5F5FC0988_zpsrf19sg7b.jpeg.html)

https://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn12/seantsephotography/4C765D08-D84E-43E6-B20C-FB31206CFE6F_zpsspbdcuuk.jpeg (http://s300.photobucket.com/user/seantsephotography/media/4C765D08-D84E-43E6-B20C-FB31206CFE6F_zpsspbdcuuk.jpeg.html)

https://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn12/seantsephotography/0F522C4C-E7A5-427A-804A-2B9F914870A5_zpsjlliacgp.jpeg (http://s300.photobucket.com/user/seantsephotography/media/0F522C4C-E7A5-427A-804A-2B9F914870A5_zpsjlliacgp.jpeg.html)

https://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn12/seantsephotography/19F5A6B7-D149-4109-B660-9EC893D44933_zpsrnu9nyjn.jpeg (http://s300.photobucket.com/user/seantsephotography/media/19F5A6B7-D149-4109-B660-9EC893D44933_zpsrnu9nyjn.jpeg.html)

https://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn12/seantsephotography/487D1A00-6C88-45F5-9B5E-71311FAB81E8_zpspuvfzckn.jpeg (http://s300.photobucket.com/user/seantsephotography/media/487D1A00-6C88-45F5-9B5E-71311FAB81E8_zpspuvfzckn.jpeg.html)

[reefy]

Lol photobucket is useless now. I really don’t know how to share in the outdated forum guys I will stick with nanoreef

[Cameron]

Cool...like to see where this goes.

[reefy]

I just downloaded flickr trying to make this photo upload to work
https://www.flickr.com/gp/185078376@N07/SvuLtP

[reefy]

This is how I mod the led for my future chaeto on the second chamber
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48927030883_f445747bdc_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hxvPFZ)
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48927563296_6d36108bd5_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hxyxXw)
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48927030853_7e9c126103_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hxvPFt)
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48927030933_bcbdca470a_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hxvPGR)
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48927563606_6f7560705f_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hxyy3S)
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48927030588_fd96bb124c_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hxvPAU)
Finally figured how to use flickr photo sorry for the previous trial post. I tried to delete them but I can’t for some reason.

[reefy]

Aight, got a little bored so decided to take the prime HD And my mini mame skimmer from my biocube into the peninsula. Running into some problems with the skimmer, water level on chamber 2 or 3 is very low picture (based on gravity the gunk won’t go up into the collection cup so I had to put it on the display for now, is cool to watch it for a while but I know I won’t like it permanently in my display.

https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48927651443_f7ce685944_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hxz1ai)
https://farm0.staticflickr.com/0/48928186086_829e0eb455_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hxBK6h)
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48927651628_19e8998296_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hxz1du)
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48928379182_90a962e713_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hxCJuw)
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48928212676_5e026d8b74_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hxBSZJ)
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48927651578_8d6108fd8d_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hxz1cC)

[smokinreefer]

Nice creativity on the tank mount!

Where did you get those brackets?

[reefy]

Nice creativity on the tank mount!

Where did you get those brackets?

Got it at Rona $17.99 each rated for 1000kg apparently

[reefy]

Day #8
Ammonia 1.5
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
I have been cycling with base rock and some raw shrimp and clam. Should I remove the rotten prawn and clam ? If so, do I add a new prawn back in for more ammonia?

[WarDog]

Remove the rotten stuffs and get some MB7.
Nice build. Keep it coming.

[reefy]

https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48931426363_4cac64c443_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hxUmj8)
Rotten shrimp
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48932153307_ccab2e6ae6_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hxY5pD)
Rotten clamp
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48931460433_4744affd07_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hxUwrx)
MB7

[reefy]

So I got some free chaeto(for marine fauna with pods) and a churro looking thingy from my friends reef tank hopefully this will seed my tank
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48937962351_f3f773941d_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hytRez)
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48937962221_a851569ba4_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hytRck)
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48938150942_3848493e8c_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hyuPi9)
https://farm66.staticflickr.com/65535/48938151112_b725e09eed_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2hyuPm5)
Ohh I managed to relocate the mame skimmer back to chamber 2 by converting the mounting bracket with some magnets

[reefy]

Day #10
NH3=0.5
NO2=0.1
NO3=2
wierd, I didn’t see a spike on NO2

[crimper]

Hey Sean, you're cycling and you added chaeto??? You should have cycled your tank first before adding chaeto.

[reefy]

update.. today is day 24th.
on the final stage of cyclying, algae blooming CUC is mowing at it right now.. have been dosing MB7 everyday, did a 50% water change 4 days ago dont know why my Nitrate is VERY high between 50-100 NH3 and NO2 is almost undetectable.... now what should i do to reduce the high nitrate? I have to transfer my livestock from the other tank very soon cuz my otherhalf has been bitching me for that for the past 10 days... should i perform another wc? or go get some NO3 dosing liquid?

[Reyphox]

If ammonia is zero, you can probably hold back on dosing MB7 and let the bacteria currently in your tank stabilize in population. Water changes bring down nitrates the fastest. 50% water change will remove 50% of the nitrates. If your nirates are still rising, even with only CUC as your livestock, you have something rotting in your tank. Possibly organics on the rocks that have to work their way out, or your bacterial cultures are dying off, possibly from adding too much MB7 which brings me back to letting the bacteria stabilize in your tank.