Ky's Nuvo 30 Build

Embrace your inner nerd! Put that T-shirt on!

 

It grows very slowly. But I have zero phosphates and nitrates so there's not much for it to grow off of.

 

oldfishkeeper - as soon as the rocks come in I won't be able to help myself

brianj - as long as it keeps those nutrients down slow growth is fine with me

Still no rocks in the mail yet. Reef Cleaners shipped them Monday. I live in TX so hopefully they will arrive today. Website says 2-3 days for priority shipping so IDK. I want to be able to get the tank filled this weekend.

I made a little progress last night to get ready for when the rocks do come in. I got the DI filter added to the RO and started making some water. 0 TDS baby! I didn't run a DI on my last tank and learned the hard way that you absolutely need one. Was able to make about 6 gallons last night (this takes forever).

 

yeah baby! lol, what kind of rock are you getting?

 

I believe it is Florida reef rock from Reef Cleaners and it did arrive on Friday. I of course got to work right away. But first I needed to change into aquarium construction attire

 

I spent 4 hours playing with the configuration of the rocks before I was happy. The wife definately helped out when I started getting frustrated. Here is the final scape and I am really happy with it.

 

I decided to go ahead and place putty in between the rocks to make sure nothing moved around. This stuff can be a little difficult to get perfect so I enlisted the wifes help again

So now that we have the scape completely finished, its time to fill with water!

It came out to approximately 25 gallons of system volume.

Popped in a piece of frozen shrimp to get the bacteria from the live sand going.

 

Congrats on getting everything running! See, your wife even helped you in your nerd shirt

 

Thanks! I guess you were right :thumb_up: