I'm thinking of getting the nuvo nano 16, then upgrading the lighting with either 1 or 2 more of the stock lights or a 12" 16 watt wave point super blue LED, and just put this in the middle of the stock lights (both stock lights are about 4" in diameter and are 8 watts and the tank itself is 24" long so I'll have about 20" of light and 32 watts). does anybody have any experience with this tank? positive/negative? should I go with another tank like this? would I be able to grow most corals with that lighting?
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I really like my Nuvo 24. Got the Current Orbit Marine LED fixture, they work great for these shallow setups (i.e. Nano 16 & 24). Has all the bells and whistles (i.e. ramp timer, storm, and cloud coverage effects, etc...) Good color too.
I'm buying the setup off of Craigslist for $200 and it comes with the tank, the 2 stock lights, the skimmer, heater, spin stream nozzles, and an extra light- a rapidled par 38. my plan was to keep the skimmer, nozzles, and stock lights then try and sell the tank with the other light for around $100-$150, then buy either the 24 (doesn't come with lights) and use the stock lighting in addition to some extra lights I can buy, or get the 16 and use 3-4 of the stock lights.
I'll check out the orbit lights.
I'll check out the orbit lights.
interesting. that light sounds pretty appealing now, and if I were getting that anyways I think the 24 may be the way to go. I still think I'll buy the other tank just to take the spin streams and the skimmer. save myself some money not dishing out $150 for those and then as long as I can get at least $50 for the tank, heater, and lights I'll be in good shape. only problem is I already have a stand for a 29 gallon so it wouldn't be big enough for the 24. maybe try selling it also? need used it but it's too late to return it.
I have a 16, it's a beautiful tank with only a few flaws--the stock pump is weak, the water line is a good inch 1/2 below the top of the glass which is annoying, and the media baskets are worthless. I bought it without the stock lighting and have T5s--from what I've heard the stock LEDs are pretty bad
ok so I have the tank and I'm really liking it. I got water in yesterday with the live sand and some already cured dry rock. I upgraded the return pump from the 211 GPH, to 2 mini jet 606 pumps that do 153 GPH. I did this to get a about 3/2 the original flow, and also so I could put the skimmer in the middle section lol. I'm going to turn one of the two middle sections (next to the main middle sections) into a refugium using the inTank fuge basket, and the other one has my heater in it. I bought the 2 custom caddy media baskets and I have the sponges like this: in the left side I have it from top to bottom: mechanical sponge, floss, carbon sponge, 2 phosphate sponges. and in the right side: 2 mechanical sponges, 2 carbon sponges, phosphate sponge. and then I plan on putting a bag full of matrix (or two), a bag of purigen, and a bag of phosguard in the chamber with the heater most likely, or maybe the return section. how does this sound? missing anything?
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decided to sell the skimmer, so I'm now looking for a 3rd stock light to upgrade the lighting a little. found two of the 8 gallon nuvo sets on eBay for pretty cheap so I'll see if I can win one of them pretty cheap to just take the light out of it and then maybe just leave the tank lying around maybe if I ever want to use it. but anyways, here's some pics!
FTS:
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custom caddies:
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fuge basket (no algae yet):
kind of blurry but it's just rocks. I did a little DIY on the intank fuge basket. I took a piece of plexiglass and fully sealed one side of it and then put up a side on the top to sort of make a basket for more rock and then half sealed the middle compartment to ensure the algae won't slip out.
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back view of fuge/ fuge light:
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that's all I have for now
FTS:
custom caddies:
fuge basket (no algae yet):
kind of blurry but it's just rocks. I did a little DIY on the intank fuge basket. I took a piece of plexiglass and fully sealed one side of it and then put up a side on the top to sort of make a basket for more rock and then half sealed the middle compartment to ensure the algae won't slip out.
back view of fuge/ fuge light:
that's all I have for now
just got a pretty good deal on eBay for the 8 gallon nuvo. I got it for $80 with free shipping, so cheaper than I could've even gotten the light alone for which is what I wanted. so I'm going to take the light out of the kit and upgrade my nuvo 16 to 3 light units now. then I'll either sell the 8 gallon tank or just leave it laying around for if I ever want to use it
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