Its been approx. a year and a half since I last had a marine tank...actually thought it would be longer...but I have decided to get back into things again.
I have been looking at starting up something small for the last 3 months and have scrutinised all my options in the all in one tank department. Originally was going to go with a new Boyu TL-550, but then Innovative Marine hit the SA shores! They are tanks I have admired overseas since they came out over there so it was a no brainer to go with one of these.
Taken me a month now to decide between the Nuvo 16 and the 24, but in the end thought I would go for something slightly larger and have gone with the Nuvo 24.
More specs can be seen here for those that are interested...
Innovative Marine
Lighting will be by eShine Aquabeauty 35w LED unit which I think should be more than ample for this little system.
Skimmer will be a Tunze 9002 as this is definitely the best skimmer in my opinion on the market in its size to fit in the back compartment of this tank.
I am hoping to go the Orca Bio Cube route...once I can find someone to supply to East London as they are not readily available over this side of the country.
As I am looking to keep predominantly soft corals and LPS with just 2 or 3 SPS pieces I am going to skip on any extra flow power for now and just add the IM Spin Stream Nozzles for a more random flow. May look at a MP10 at a later stage if things change.
Innovative Marine
Going to probably go with 3 islands for the scaping...whats nice with these tanks is, although they are narrow, they make up for it in length so I think something similar to the pic below will work best in this setup...
Going to focus mainly on zoas, mushrooms, rics in the soft coral department, but going to be very selective about all corals with such a small tank and I want to focus only on corals with colours that stand out even if it means having to wait a while for the right pieces.
Some nice show piece LPS will finish things off... I have always loved my Cynarinas, scolymias, chalices, blasto's and Acans so these are definitely pieces I will be looking at again.
SPS would just be some platings, maybe a birdsnest and some digi's...the lest demanding stuff basically
Want to do something different with this tank and focus a lot on Inverts and try and get a nice collection of different nano shrimps and crabs as well as a nice assortment of clams.
One Item I am really keen to get my hands on is a Pink Carpet Anemone...but never seen one in this country before...
As this is a fish keeping hobby I will need one or 2 fish in the mix...Bluespot Jawfish will be my centre piece fish...3rd time lucky :O ...with some gobies and hopefully a tank bred mandarin in the mix.
That's it for now...hopefully tank will arrive sooner than later and we can begin this journey all over again...
I have been looking at starting up something small for the last 3 months and have scrutinised all my options in the all in one tank department. Originally was going to go with a new Boyu TL-550, but then Innovative Marine hit the SA shores! They are tanks I have admired overseas since they came out over there so it was a no brainer to go with one of these.
Taken me a month now to decide between the Nuvo 16 and the 24, but in the end thought I would go for something slightly larger and have gone with the Nuvo 24.
More specs can be seen here for those that are interested...
Innovative Marine
Lighting will be by eShine Aquabeauty 35w LED unit which I think should be more than ample for this little system.
Skimmer will be a Tunze 9002 as this is definitely the best skimmer in my opinion on the market in its size to fit in the back compartment of this tank.
I am hoping to go the Orca Bio Cube route...once I can find someone to supply to East London as they are not readily available over this side of the country.
As I am looking to keep predominantly soft corals and LPS with just 2 or 3 SPS pieces I am going to skip on any extra flow power for now and just add the IM Spin Stream Nozzles for a more random flow. May look at a MP10 at a later stage if things change.
Innovative Marine
Going to probably go with 3 islands for the scaping...whats nice with these tanks is, although they are narrow, they make up for it in length so I think something similar to the pic below will work best in this setup...
Going to focus mainly on zoas, mushrooms, rics in the soft coral department, but going to be very selective about all corals with such a small tank and I want to focus only on corals with colours that stand out even if it means having to wait a while for the right pieces.
Some nice show piece LPS will finish things off... I have always loved my Cynarinas, scolymias, chalices, blasto's and Acans so these are definitely pieces I will be looking at again.
SPS would just be some platings, maybe a birdsnest and some digi's...the lest demanding stuff basically
Want to do something different with this tank and focus a lot on Inverts and try and get a nice collection of different nano shrimps and crabs as well as a nice assortment of clams.
One Item I am really keen to get my hands on is a Pink Carpet Anemone...but never seen one in this country before...
As this is a fish keeping hobby I will need one or 2 fish in the mix...Bluespot Jawfish will be my centre piece fish...3rd time lucky :O ...with some gobies and hopefully a tank bred mandarin in the mix.
That's it for now...hopefully tank will arrive sooner than later and we can begin this journey all over again...
