Scaramanga IM 15 Office Edition

[scaramanga]

This has been in the plans for a year. When I started my 75g I was planning on using the leftovers in an old 10g Rimmed. Plans changed and went with this build. Rocks and Sand both went into the 10g with a heater and pump for 8 months while I planned how I was going to move it to my office.

In comes a sale on the IM 15 Nuvo Desktop that I couldn't pass up and so started the journey. Broke down the 10g rimmed with rocks and sand and moved with buckets of water to office.

Equipment

Tank - Innovative Marine Desktop 15g AIO cube
Rock/Sand - Marco Dry and Caribsea Fiji pink araj alive
Water - Rodi(homemade) + Tropic Marin Pro Reef
Filtration - AIO Chamber 1 Media basket [Compartment 1(Floss eventually), Compartment 2(BRS charcoal Eventually, Compartment 3 Marine pure gems), AIO Chamber 2 nano rocks
Flow - Stock mightyjet 326gph, Jebao DMP 10
Lighting - NooPsyche K7 Mini
Skimmer - none
UV - None
Temp control - Eheim 75w Jager 81F preset in return chamber, controlled by Inkbird set to 78.5F +/- 1
Testing - Hanna ULR Phosphate, HR Nitrate, Alk. Milwaukee MA887 digital refractor, Imaginarium PH
ATO -Tunze Osimalator 3 Nano
Other Accessories - Flipper Float Nano, IM Clear Mesh Cover

To order - Eheim Autofeeder(before Wrasse)

Stocking plan (* for sure):

1) 1 x Yasha Goby*
2) 1 x Candy cane pistol*
3) 1 x Peppermint Shrimp*
4) 6 x Trochus Snail*
5) 4 x Nassarius Snail*
6) 1 x Bumblebee Snail*
7) 1 x Tailspot Blenny or Hector/Rainford Goby
8) 1 x Pink Streaked Wrasse*

Setup Date 11/04/24

 

[scaramanga]

Update for 11/12/24
Updated with new Parts as they came in.
IM caddy added marine pure gems to bottom compartment. Removed the Sock that came with it. Added Rubble into chamber 2. Added Noopsyche Mini 7 light. Turned it on for photos, but leaving off till I have stuff in tank. Added IM Clear mesh lid. Built the Stand and moved tank to it.

Note to self, take more water out when moving. It wasn't enough. Was pretty wet for a few hours at work.

 

[JojosReef]

Great build! That will be a fun tank. Best nano fish, too.

 

[scaramanga]

Update for 11/20/24
Tunze Osimalator 3 came in. Yay, no more manually filling. Also, in was the inkbird. Game changers! @reefbysteele Pods and Phyto came in. Time to seed. Put pods in all chambers and the tank. Dosed a small amount of Phyto. No Filter floss at this time. Trying to seed everything before I put it in.

 

[scaramanga]

Great build! That will be a fun tank. Best nano fish, too.

Thanks man! I wrote out a pretty large amount of fish. Did my research on what parts they hang out in and aggressiveness. Then narrowed it down. Still somewhat flexable, but this is what I liked so far. Going to try and attempt a mixed reef on it. More SPS and a couple LPS. Going to break up that top rock down a bit. Maybe do a zoa garden in bottom left.

 

[JojosReef]

The K7 Mini will be plenty for SPS on the top of the rocks. I run 3 minis on my IM Nuvo 40L and one on an IM Nuvo 10g. Easily getting 300-350 PAR on top of the rocks in my 40 running the lights at avg 50% intensity.

 

[scaramanga]

Update 12/2/2024

On 11/23/24 found a Pink Streaked Wrasse at Reef Lounge. Very much a random as I had been trying to find one for a week online to no avail or were absurd prices. Absolutely my Favorite LFS to go to. Also added 2 x trochus snails and 1 mushroom coral frag. Next up the Yasha goby in probably a month or so. Feeding once a day. Feed once every other day from 11/28/24 - 12/2/24 due to holiday.

On 11/25/24 Dosed Nautilus Macro PNS to add some more types of beneficial bacteria. Dosed again 12/2/24

Tank seems to be going through that first ugly stage of bacterial bloom. Started on 11/28/24 still going today 12/2/24. For the bacterial bloom I did add a small bag of carbon, but I know it's just a wait game. Small amount of diatoms on the bottom of rocks on 11/28/24. Changed out the filter floss on 12/1/24. Diatoms have seem to disappear probably antidotal as the floss was still quite clean.

Dosed some Phyto 12/2/24 hoping Pod population is staying strong.


Testing
Ammonia 0ppm
Nitrite 0ppm
Nitrate 2ppm
ph 7.6