Owners Thread: Innovative Marine Fusion 40
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Reduck
Because I can....
I am allowed to question everyone except my wife
Can we get an inside pic when you get a change? I am talking to both of you nowreduck post a pic of the tank too.
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See if this link works...
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Dainese954
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27 days later.
No algae in tank. [emoji3]
Very nice! Mine isn't growing much algae at all [emoji17] what's ur lighting schedule look like? And what pump are you using? Thanks in advance
Dainese954
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27 days later.
No algae in tank. [emoji3]
That looks amazing wish I can get mine to grow like urs. What's ur lighting schedule?
reefwiser
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An of coarse we have a coral show on the 21st of November.
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An of coarse we have a coral show on the 21st of November.
reefwiser
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I just leave the light on all the time.
reefwiser
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I just leave the light on all the time.
Dainese954
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I just leave the light on all the time.
No freaking way!! What pump are u using?! TIA
River4ever
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For those running the MP10 QD in the IM 40 what setting do you all have it in and where is it located?
chagovatoloco
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Hay, I just wanted to post some pics of my tank. It's my first reef, but I have been an aquarist for many years. Mine is a little different design from the norm. I didn't go with a skimmer, no side flow and no filtration other than an algae scrubber.
I wanted a natural tank with very little maintenance required. I am a student, father and full time employee plus it's in a bedroom and has to be quiet. I have a six gallon top off reservoir, so a I really do is rice the scrubber one a week and change water. I use ocean water so water changes are five minutes and some times I use a filter sock to clean debris. I give it about thirty minutes a week and it fits my scedule.
I will be adding some more light to the scrubber, but other than that I am pretty content. I use an AI hydra 26 light and two koralia power heads with the smart wave controller, simple and easy.
I do have some hair algae, but the scrubber is taking care of it little by little.
Let me know what you think.
reefwiser
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Was just going to ask the same thing. Do you you use the short pulse or long pulse? On what settings. Or some other mode.
Duncan - ~80 heads over 5 mini colonies - I broke up the mother because the top heads were shading out the bottom ones. I think it looks nicer having a bunch of pieces spread around the tank anyway. This guy took a beating in transport. Some of the tentacles are still a bit wrinkly and color is slowly returning to the polyps that were shaded out. It's got a ways to go but it's very happy and the trend is good.
Acan - ~25-30 polyps. This thing looks fantastic in high-blue light. Can't for the life of me get a pic that does it justice. It's throwing off new polyps like crazy at the outer growth edge. I look forward to fragging this one and having multiple chunks spread around the tank, like the duncan.
The derasa clam is so fun. Watching it snap closed and then open back up every time a fish swims over it is inexplicably entertaining.
Picked up a little lobo frag last week. It's produced ~1mm of new encrustation in that time. Looking forward to seeing how that turns out. You can see it in the bottom right corner, in front of the two biggest chunks of duncan.
Also have a big chunk of sunset monti and a couple plating montis. Eventually, when I find something i think is truly fantastic, I will be adding 1-2 tabling acros on the top of the cap-stone. Efflorescens, solitaryensis or sarmentosa are what I'm leaning toward.
Fish load is low. I have 2 black ocellaris who I feed minimally, and a tailspot blenny who subsists fully (and quite well, I might add) off of algae from the tank.
I'm feeding the duncans and acans spirulina, nannochloropsis and zooplankton-enriched brine shrimp (target fed with all pumps off) biweekly.
I do not run a skimmer or any reactors. I have the filter sock in the first section of the left overflow, with a bunch of rubble in the second section. I have rubble in both sections of the right overflow, as well as ulva, chaeto, gracillaria and whatever hair algae i pull from the tank, growing as a refugium in the fist section of the right overflow. I do a minimum 10% water change atleast biweekly, if not weekly, and add live nannochloropsis and zooplankton weekly. I've got spirorbid worms growing out the wazoo and everything is happy.
I run a hydra 26hd, ~15" above water surface, on a slightly altered version of zibba's schedule (i increased the levels of blue and uv slightly). I also cut a piece of lexan to cover the mesh section of the lid, in order to cut down on evaporation. I get plenty of gas exchange in my filtration area.
So I added two of the Neptune WAV pumps today. They're probably overkill for the Fusion 40. I've tried everything under the sun to get rid of the cyano that keeps coming back on my rocks and sand... except adding more flow... and have made no progress. The CUC doesn't seem to touch it. I've been switching out GFO, Carbon, and Purigen to the point that I've stopped seeing coral growth. I've changed my lighting program around as much as I feel comfortable doing. Been through the three days of darkness. Feeding as little as possible. Etc, etc, etc... and the cyano still hangs around.
In reading others' posts, I realized fairly quickly that a single MP10 probably would not be sufficient long-term. And the cyano is much more prevalent in the area of the tank that gets the least flow from the MP10. So I tossed around the idea of whether to just add another MP10 or go to the WAVs. I went the WAV route... especially since Neptune offered the discount for Black Friday and Ecotech did not.
Initial thoughts: Size is better than I thought - the pumps do not look insane in the tank. I love being able to mount them on the back (black) wall. Both are placed fairly high up and you don't even notice the cords against the black wall. No problem there. They're too powerful for the 40, but can be dialed down to a manageable level in Fusion. I'm topping mine out at about 10% power - and still wondering if I will need to back that down. For now I've also left the MP10 in place on the right side and cut back its power by a flat 30% in every program mode. Even at 1% power, I find the WAVs to be too powerful to use in feed mode. So I have them turn off completely when a feed timer is on and left the MP10 running in constant mode at 12% power - seems to work well.
I haven't found a program in the WAVs that I like as much for post-feeding as I do the Nutrient Transport Mode in the Vortechs. I setup two different post-feed profiles for the WAVs to try and get somewhat close to what the NTM does in the Vortechs. I think it's probably just fine, but I've really liked the flow that I've had with ramping the MP10 up to about 75% power in NTM right after I finish feeding. Helps stir things up to get any residual food moved toward the overflows (which is not really much at all, but every little bit helps).
One of my WAV pumps reports a position error every time it changes modes. There's a thread over on the Neptune forums about this issue, and it seems to be fairly common. Apparently a future firmware update will resolve the issue. Best way I can describe it is that it seems that the sensor for position is about 50X more sensitive than it needs to be. But neither I nor anyone over on the Neptune forums seems to have a clue why it tends to present itself on one pump and not the other. I do feel fairly confident that Neptune can fix it with a firmware update.
My final thought on the WAV pumps for this tank is that I would HIGHLY recommend keeping the pumps out of your tank and in a plastic tub or bucket when testing them and setting up your programming. It's pretty easy to make a simple mistake - especially when adding advanced programming - that causes the pump to go "full on" at 100% power... which causes a full-blown tsunami in the Fusion 40 - even if only one pump goes up to full power. (Trust me... I'll be blowing sand off my rock for days... but the sandbed sure did get stirred up!)
Bottom line is that you can definitely get these pumps to work in the tank. The magnet mounts have no problem going in the overflow area within the existing compartments. You can get the power down to a reasonable level for the tank, but you don't have a lot of range to play with. For me the real win is that these pumps are definitely future-proof in the sense that I'll have no need to upgrade pumps when I eventually follow Reduck's lead and move into a bigger tank.
In reading others' posts, I realized fairly quickly that a single MP10 probably would not be sufficient long-term. And the cyano is much more prevalent in the area of the tank that gets the least flow from the MP10. So I tossed around the idea of whether to just add another MP10 or go to the WAVs. I went the WAV route... especially since Neptune offered the discount for Black Friday and Ecotech did not.
Initial thoughts: Size is better than I thought - the pumps do not look insane in the tank. I love being able to mount them on the back (black) wall. Both are placed fairly high up and you don't even notice the cords against the black wall. No problem there. They're too powerful for the 40, but can be dialed down to a manageable level in Fusion. I'm topping mine out at about 10% power - and still wondering if I will need to back that down. For now I've also left the MP10 in place on the right side and cut back its power by a flat 30% in every program mode. Even at 1% power, I find the WAVs to be too powerful to use in feed mode. So I have them turn off completely when a feed timer is on and left the MP10 running in constant mode at 12% power - seems to work well.
I haven't found a program in the WAVs that I like as much for post-feeding as I do the Nutrient Transport Mode in the Vortechs. I setup two different post-feed profiles for the WAVs to try and get somewhat close to what the NTM does in the Vortechs. I think it's probably just fine, but I've really liked the flow that I've had with ramping the MP10 up to about 75% power in NTM right after I finish feeding. Helps stir things up to get any residual food moved toward the overflows (which is not really much at all, but every little bit helps).
One of my WAV pumps reports a position error every time it changes modes. There's a thread over on the Neptune forums about this issue, and it seems to be fairly common. Apparently a future firmware update will resolve the issue. Best way I can describe it is that it seems that the sensor for position is about 50X more sensitive than it needs to be. But neither I nor anyone over on the Neptune forums seems to have a clue why it tends to present itself on one pump and not the other. I do feel fairly confident that Neptune can fix it with a firmware update.
My final thought on the WAV pumps for this tank is that I would HIGHLY recommend keeping the pumps out of your tank and in a plastic tub or bucket when testing them and setting up your programming. It's pretty easy to make a simple mistake - especially when adding advanced programming - that causes the pump to go "full on" at 100% power... which causes a full-blown tsunami in the Fusion 40 - even if only one pump goes up to full power. (Trust me... I'll be blowing sand off my rock for days... but the sandbed sure did get stirred up!)
Bottom line is that you can definitely get these pumps to work in the tank. The magnet mounts have no problem going in the overflow area within the existing compartments. You can get the power down to a reasonable level for the tank, but you don't have a lot of range to play with. For me the real win is that these pumps are definitely future-proof in the sense that I'll have no need to upgrade pumps when I eventually follow Reduck's lead and move into a bigger tank.
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