My Recent Evo build and upgrades from the start

[dibaser18]

Yes mate from Nottingham. I will check that out.

Gorilla nipple zoas. Lol. Had to immediately google that to check it was real.

Yeah I know

 

[dibaser18]

You can't really see from the pic but the candy canes really pop in blue light so does the center of the ducans and the zoa's fluorescent orange I need to order some lens for my phone to take a decent pic.

 

[Gavin Noy]

You can't really see from the pic but the candy canes really pop in blue light so does the center of the ducans and the zoa's fluorescent orange I need to order some lens for my phone to take a decent pic.

Nice that is. Is there a particular reason your water is not to the top?

 

[dibaser18]

Nice that is. Is there a particular reason your water is not to the top?

Yeah I need to do a water change lol but I don't keep it right to the top I did but there was too much salt creep coming out the lid I find keeping in about 1 cm below helps.

 

[Gavin Noy]

Yeah I need to do a water change lol but I don't keep it right to the top I did but there was too much salt creep coming out the lid I find keeping in about 1 cm below helps.

Iv got all this to come. I will drop it a bit tomorrow. Mine is like 3mm off the rim. Does the light get covered in salt eventually too? Just browsing through charter house now. Could blast £500 in a small order .

 

[dibaser18]

Iv got all this to come. I will drop it a bit tomorrow. Mine is like 3mm off the rim. Does the light get covered in salt eventually too? Just browsing through charter house now. Could blast £500 in a small order .

Your tank might go slightly different see mine is by a window which is open alot so I get ABIT of evaporation.You might not. Or you might it's really trial and error but really I think going right to the top does look good but my random flow generator is aimed at the surface so in oxygenates the water. If I had the water level right at the top it would be spilling too.

 

[dibaser18]

And yeh there is alot of cool stuff on charterhouse the prices are very good but all saltwater stuff is expensive the actual Evo tank is kinda cheap on there unless you go second hand. I bought my media chambers from somewhere else though and I got the new wave maker second hand off eBay for 90 quid. I kinda splurged the last two months on the tank now I need to save lol

 

[dibaser18]

Oh and my first light broke when I had my water level high in the first week I had it but I did accidentally drop it in the tank. But luckily charterhouse replaced it next day.

 

[Gavin Noy]

Oh and my first light broke when I had my water level high in the first week I had it but I did accidentally drop it in the tank. But luckily charterhouse replaced it next day.

 

[Ianderson80]

I have started a new/ ongoing Evo build about a month ago, here is the list of equipment and media I bought and have upgraded straight away.

So the tank obviously Evo sea 13.5 gallon
Upgraded the pump to eheim compaction 1000
Heater eheim thermo preset 100watt
Carib sea arag Fiji pink live sand 10lb
Carib sea nano tank rock kit
I bought 2 kg of live rock aswell from a lfs
Upgraded the return pump duck bills to a 1/2 inch rfg.
Wave maker tunze nanostream 6015
Fritz turbo start 900
Ammonia chloride for cycling
Some Epoxy putty
Reef print media baskets for fluval Evo
Max spec nano spheres 1kg
Filter floss
Finer filters four stage r/o filter with resin chamber
I made the noob mistake of not planning my aquascape but I think it's ok....

I have the same setup yours look good