Fluval 13.5G Build. Aggressive LPS!

[Ksull72487]

Alright guys I told you a long a time ago my plans for the perfect fit bed bath and beyond stand. This area in my place has been a mess for weeks. I finally started to put it together. Still got to organize some wires. But my vision is finally starting to come to life.

Equipment

-inTank Media Basket (Floss, Purigen, Chemi Pure Blue and Bio Rings)
-hygger 200 watt Quartz heater
-Stock Return Pump, may upgrade to Sicce .5
-hygger wavemaker
-Stock Light, may upgrade to NiCrew HyperReef
-NiCrew Pro ramp up timer.

Tank Stocking

-2 Ocellaris Clowns
-1 Yellow Watchman Goby
-1 Pistol Shrimp
-4 Dwarf Blue Legs
-3 Astreas

Corals

-1 FrogSpawn
-1 Australian Elegance Coral
-1 Bubble coral

And a partridge in a pear tree!

Side note I had heater probe out Lol was screwing with heater. Don’t worry it’s not 72 in their. Hahaha. Figured I’d say that in case somebody calls that out.

I bought the tank cuz I had the stand from bed bath and beyond. It was a perfect fit, anyways it’s still got a long way to go but my vision is starting to become reality!

 

[Ksull72487]

Planning to do a rock flower Anenome next. Honestly I was going to do just a basic softy tank. A simple reef. My LFS said why don’t you just go aggressive. It’s already going in that direction. I’m like good point! So I’m going to keep it that way! Something different.

 

[Ksull72487]

One more little mod I did to that stock return pump. Inline Switch for feeding. So I press feed mode on wavemaker click that and your good to go. I wouldn’t recommend a mod like this infear of condensation or drip. You can seal it up pretty good tho and usually that never happens much anyways. But over all a cheap little mod for that cheap little pump.

 

[najer]

Nice work, looking good.

 

[EagleEye121]

Looking good!

Are you worried at all about the wheels supporting the weight of the tank over time?

 

[fishlover1478]

nice tank

 

[Ksull72487]

Looking good!

Are you worried at all about the wheels supporting the weight of the tank over time?

Thoughts crossed my mind the stand is $56 from bed bath and beyond pretty sturdy and cheap for what it is but I am watching what salt creep might do to it. The castors are removable so I could always take them off.

 

[Ksull72487]

That’s my plan for the birds nest of wires. I’m going to wrap the bundle in that in a few places. Will be less of an eye sore and easily be zip tied to the metal leg. Next weekend unless I get bored! That outlet is also on a switch with a light. So I still gotta turn that switch into a half switch so the other side is always hot. Doing that now. Right now I have note on the wall switch use lamp chain don’t flip switch