Fluval EVO 13.5 must have Add-ons

[NeonRabbit221B]

Has anyone printed this yet?

Yes. It fits perfectly. Some floss on the top will catch a ton of junk too.

 

[Dryanimtt]

I have a fully stocked tank on stock filter for evo 13.5. And it works fine. Fish, corals, and everything. That's all im saying.

 

[JoshO]

I have a fully stocked tank on stock filter for evo 13.5. And it works fine. Fish, corals, and everything. That's all im saying.

You run the skimmer too don't you?
I've made a custom media basket for my Evo that sits in chamber 1 which has a small piece of foam at the top (cut from the stock block) and a piece of floss underneath. It helps to have smaller mechanical sections like this to reduce trapped detritus which could lead to nitrate build up that is possible with a large block

 

[Dryanimtt]

You run the skimmer too don't you?
I've made a custom media basket for my Evo that sits in chamber 1 which has a small piece of foam at the top (cut from the stock block) and a piece of floss underneath. It helps to have smaller mechanical sections like this to reduce trapped detritus which could lead to nitrate build up that is possible with a large block

I do run the skimmer. Yea that's the only big downfall. Getting all the particulates in the bottom of the chambers, which I have to siphon out on the weekly water change.

 

[JoshO]

I do run the skimmer. Yea that's the only big downfall. Getting all the particulates in the bottom of the chambers, which I have to siphon out on the weekly water change.

I made a custom basket for the first chamber and my nitrates are never above 5 thanks to the smaller mechanical filtration. The basket blocks all but the top 3 baffles so the flow goes all the way to the top of chamber 2 and then flows down through all my biological filtration

 

[Dryanimtt]

I made a custom basket for the first chamber and my nitrates are never above 5 thanks to the smaller mechanical filtration. The basket blocks all but the top 3 baffles so the flow goes all the way to the top of chamber 2 and then flows down through all my biological filtration

Please make me one lol

 

[JoshO]

Please make me one lol

I don't use it anymore lol. It worked great but I had no need for 3 chambers so it got broken up!

 

[namfuak]

I made a custom basket for the first chamber and my nitrates are never above 5 thanks to the smaller mechanical filtration. The basket blocks all but the top 3 baffles so the flow goes all the way to the top of chamber 2 and then flows down through all my biological filtration

I was thinking of doing this exact same thing, but in chamber two, modifying the inTank basket. I made a thread about it last night with diagrams in the DIY forum. I felt the top half of chamber two was too stagnant.

 

[kellyd417]

I ripped all the crap out of the back and upgraded to an Eheim 1000 return, I do run floss by the weir, the corals rocks and macro algae are the filtration, a few nps and it's fed a lot of live phyto!

Would you explain what you ripped out and the other mods? I’m new and not 100% on knowing what that entails.

 

[olonmv]

In my evo, chamber 1 houses my denitrator pump and mechanical filtration. Chamber 2 houses chaeto that’s lit up with an innovative marine on a 8 hr schedule, chamber 3 houses my ATO sensor, heater and stock pump. I upgraded light to an AI prime and have an Aqamai KPs powerhead.

 

[mandy1975]

I ripped all the crap out of the back and upgraded to an Eheim 1000 return, I do run floss by the weir, the corals rocks and macro algae are the filtration, a few nps and it's fed a lot of live phyto!

Hi could you please tell me what the coral is on the left …. The orange one thank you