IM Lagoon 25 build

[twitchy]

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.

The resolution of your curve is impressive, is there a better way to program it than clicking and dragging the little sliders? I wish there was a way to interface with Excel or something.
Is that much white too much light for anything that you've tried to keep?

 

[murphreef]

The resolution of your curve is impressive, is there a better way to program it than clicking and dragging the little sliders? I wish there was a way to interface with Excel or something.
Is that much white too much light for anything that you've tried to keep?

I have not found a better way lol I just tweak with the sliders here and there and adjust it to what I find visually pleasing and what I think the corals need.

So far none of my corals have gotten too much "white" light. Mind you these units only come with a few of each color LED and only 1 Red and 1 Green so over powering the whites has not been too harsh on anything so far.

I have all types of corals and all seem to enjoy the lighting

 

[Zoahoarder]

Looks great following along maybe getting a 25g as well. Might be interested in a floss holder.

 

[twitchy]

Looks great following along maybe getting a 25g as well. Might be interested in a floss holder.

Thanks, let me know if you do pull the trigger on a 25, I'd be more than happy to hook you up with a floss holder. The prime looks great over the tank

 

[Zoahoarder]

Thanks, let me know if you do pull the trigger on a 25, I'd be more than happy to hook you up with a floss holder. The prime looks great over the tank

Indeed it does. If you ever need anything or looking for some kind of live stock let me know. Will do on the holder.

 

[twitchy]

I need to set up a reactor on my tank for carbon and gfo because I don't have a media rack. Currently I just have carbon in a filterbag laying in the back.
Debating 3 options:
1: mounting my brs reactor under the stand and running a mj1200 through it
2: getting a new reactor to put in the back, I like the IM mini design, but 100$ seems a little steep.
3: making a DIY reactor similar to the IM, I already have a couple little pumps I could use from my old Pico.

Suggestions? What's everyone else running?

 

[sumtingwity]

good luck

 

[twitchy]

good luck

Thanks

 

[Zoahoarder]

You can find the IM reactors for $70. Just have to look around on the selling forum.
I went ahead and bought that 25g lagoon with a kessil a360we for a good price. Not sure I'll run that led or find an ati fixture

 

[twitchy]

You can find the IM reactors for $70. Just have to look around on the selling forum.
I went ahead and bought that 25g lagoon with a kessil a360we for a good price. Not sure I'll run that led or find an ati fixture

Cool, I will have to check it out, do you think the IM reactor would be better than running the brs one I have? It would be nice not having to run lines out the back of the tank...

Congrats on the new tank, you planning on keeping the cube you have or replacing it with the lagoon?

 

[twitchy]

Been a while, but an update:
Things are going good, sps is slowly regaining color, and Duncan and frogspawn are opening.
Finally got the undertank situation cleaned up and organized. love the dj strip, I can't believe I've never had one before, makes feeding so much easier. Still don't have my brs mini reactor plumbed yet, but you can see where it is mounted.

Next steps:
1) Plumb reactor
2) Print media shelf to replace one of the filter floss holders so I can run purigen
3) stocking

 

[twitchy]

Been a while, but an update:
Things are going good, sps is slowly regaining color, and Duncan and frogspawn are opening.
Finally got the undertank situation cleaned up and organized. love the dj strip, I can't believe I've never had one before, makes feeding so much easier. Still don't have my brs mini reactor plumbed yet, but you can see where it is mounted.

Next steps:
1) Plumb reactor
2) Print media shelf to replace one of the filter floss holders so I can run purigen
3) stocking

 

[MarauderMike]

Starting an IM 14 peninsula. thanks for the ideas. What do you suggest running in the media shelves

Thanks

 

[twitchy]

Starting an IM 14 peninsula. thanks for the ideas. What do you suggest running in the media shelves

Thanks

I currently don't have any media shelves, but my plan is to run 2 filter floss holders, 1 media rack in the second chamber that will hold a bag of purigen (i don't plan on running a skimmer), and in the second chamber on the other side have a pump to my brs mini media reactor with carbon and gfo.

If I was you and had media rack with the tank I would run floss up top on both, then on one side run carbon/gfo and the other side run purigen

 

[TatorTaco]

I enjoy you sharing your creativity on this build and it looks terrific. Your control box linked to your ATO pump for water changes is super neat. I sure wish I had the "know-how" to pull that off!

 

[twitchy]

I enjoy you sharing your creativity on this build and it looks terrific. Your control box linked to your ATO pump for water changes is super neat. I sure wish I had the "know-how" to pull that off!

Thank you, if you know how to solder I could PM you a circuit diagram if you would like

 

[bk.]

Man I love this tank. Been thinking hard about picking up the same one myself. What are your thoughts on it thus far?

 

[twitchy]

Man I love this tank. Been thinking hard about picking up the same one myself. What are your thoughts on it thus far?

It's been a great tank, I'm loving the all in one style tank. Maintenance is so quick and easy. Regret not getting an IM20 years ago.

Only complaint is that the stock pump is not enough flow so I had to put power heads in the display. a new pump is on the list at some point, hopefully that will be enough flow to pull the power heads out and clean up the look a little bit.

 

[ca1ore]

Yeah the stock pumps are pretty bad. I have a fusion 20 and fusion lagoon 25 and replaced both pumps with sicce 1.0. Still needs a powerhead though.

Edit - sicce 1.5 on the IM25

 

[twitchy]

Yeah the stock pumps are pretty bad. I have a fusion 20 and fusion lagoon 25 and replaced both pumps with sicce 1.0. Still needs a powerhead though.

Do you think I could get away with a sicce 1.5 and no power heads? I don't mind having the power head in the display, I just hate the wire running down the side