IM Lagoon 25 build

Another update, after running for a few days the filter floss holder is working and holding up great. I've been running Walmart polyfil and do far so good. Still a little skeptical about the filtration abilities of floss vs socks, but not having to wash out socks has been pretty great.

The rest of the rock and sand coming soon...
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Brought some more rock over and did some aquascaping over the weekend. Not complete, but I am happy with the left side (facing the tank). Need to add some more smaller rock pieces to branch into the center sand bed of the tank, but will probably end up redoing everything 10x...
Will be bringing over the rest of the rock and and sand this early this week.
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I went back to the apartment earlier to feed my 40B and to finish some packing and saw this.
The heater was still running, most coral bleached, fish somehow still alive, but the clown is swimming on his side. Had buckets on hand and made an emergency evacuation to the lagoon 25.

Not sure how long they had been cooking, hoping for the best
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William24 said:
Cheap heater? I'm scared now with my heater


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Not really, it was an eheim jager, not that old either. I know it wasn't super expensive, but I did some research and thought they were reliable.
Worried about my other tank too, especially with it being smaller :/
 
Just setup a IM Lagoon 25 in my son's room. Pretty cool little tank. Going the simple route, with heater, ATO and a Kessil 160 light. Would love to add it to my apex, but no easy way to get a USB cord into his room. I did replace the pump with a Sicce 1.5 that I had laying around. Not sure yetbif a powerhead will be necessary.
 
ca1ore said:
Just setup a IM Lagoon 25 in my son's room. Pretty cool little tank. Going the simple route, with heater, ATO and a Kessil 160 light. Would love to add it to my apex, but no easy way to get a USB cord into his room. I did replace the pump with a Sicce 1.5 that I had laying around. Not sure yetbif a powerhead will be necessary.
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How do you like the 1.5? I still have the stock pump and I'm not impressed, don't know if I want to go sicce 1.5 or 2.0. Do you think the 1.5 is sufficient?
 
Yeah the stock pump is crap - not enough flow delivered with too much noise. I'm a big sicce fan and the only submersible pump I use. I think the 1.5 is enough through the stock hoses. I'm toying with strapping a MP10 to the side though.
 
Do either of you run the spin streams? I'm guessing not if you have a mp10... Thinking about getting them, but they seem kinda gimmicky
 
Just an update, my two fish and pistol shrimp seemed to have survived the heater ordeal this weekend and are in the lagoon 25. The aquascape is not finished, most of the surviving frags are just put in the tank for the time being.
I also picked up an AI Prime to light the tank, and love it so far, I feel like I will never stop tweaking it, so many options.

If you have a prime, what settings are you running?
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Looks good bud!

I love the AI Prime HD also so fun to mess with!

Here is a pic of my graph, hard to explain what I made but corals love it lol my max white gets to 115% and I only run the Red/ Green up to about 25% max.

 
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