show your fluval evo 13.5

Reef of Fillory · Jul 3, 2018

BoBoBREWSKI said:
Thanks for the info Reef of Fillory! Corals lookin' awesome.
I'm hoping to get rid of my Fluval skimmer if I go with the chamber 1 basket and marine pure balls in chamber 2. I'm tired of dealing with it (re-adjust it etc after every water change etc) and don't like how loud it is.

Mine's silent and works great, maybe you got a defective one? I use mine mostly for additional oxygenation.

BoBoBREWSKI · Jul 3, 2018

Reef of Fillory said:
Mine's silent and works great, maybe you got a defective one? I use mine mostly for additional oxygenation.

I've heard a lot of people say theirs is kinda loud, so I think mine is normal. It's not loud, you dont hear it when our TV is on, I just prefer the almost silence of the tank when it's not running, and it sure looks a lot cleaner/nicer without it sticking up from the chamber. I'm picky about that, I dont like hoses, wires, etc all over the place. I like the streamlined stock look.

Talo’s Reef · Jul 3, 2018

Here’s my fluval. Been up since late January. I am running the stock lights. I do run the protein skimmer but it only pulls stuff about half the time. Don’t really care for it. Definitely the loudest thing in the tank. I added the koralia nano power head. I run carbon and sometime chemipure elite, no filter floss or mechanical filtration. Had problems with nitrate when I did. Great growth on all my corals.

Mavric · Jul 6, 2018

^^ Nice setup! Love that rock!

Finally put the media basket in this morning (holidays delayed shipping, was annoying). Nonetheless it's ready to go. Filter floss in chamber 1, chemi-pure blue, biomax, and purigen in 2nd, and bio balls in 3rd. 2nd sump chamber is empty, will most likely put some caulerpa in there after I find a decent grow light.

Reef of Fillory · Jul 6, 2018

Mavric said:
^^ Nice setup! Love that rock!

Finally put the media basket in this morning (holidays delayed shipping, was annoying). Nonetheless it's ready to go. Filter floss in chamber 1, chemi-pure blue, biomax, and purigen in 2nd, and bio balls in 3rd. 2nd sump chamber is empty, will most likely put some caulerpa in there after I find a decent grow light.

My suggestion: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N47QRHV/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Mavric · Jul 6, 2018

Reef of Fillory said:
My suggestion: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N47QRHV/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Thank you! One I was looking at was $60 on Amazon and nowhere near this nice. Just ordered.

Reef of Fillory · Jul 6, 2018

Mavric said:
Thank you! One I was looking at was $60 on Amazon and nowhere near this nice. Just ordered.

No problem, just as another reference, I used this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005SRECEU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 to attach it to the back glass

If needed, it pulls off easily with a razorblade

Talo’s Reef · Jul 6, 2018

Mavric said:
^^ Nice setup! Love that rock!

Finally put the media basket in this morning (holidays delayed shipping, was annoying). Nonetheless it's ready to go. Filter floss in chamber 1, chemi-pure blue, biomax, and purigen in 2nd, and bio balls in 3rd. 2nd sump chamber is empty, will most likely put some caulerpa in there after I find a decent grow light.

Thank you. Had so much fun sitting on the LFS floor digging through all the rock and scaping right there. Good luck, I have tons of fun with mine.

tenurepro · Jul 21, 2018

Hi All. So I had a nasty electric shock when I was trying to adjust the heater today. After a bit of testing, I traced it to the fluval return pump that was leaking stray voltage into the tank. Not very impressed with this failure given that the pump is less than a month all.

Just wonder what are options for nonstock return pumps that would fit the evo13.5 back chamber and return line size ? Thanks!

BoBoBREWSKI · Jul 21, 2018

tenurepro said:
Hi All. So I had a nasty electric shock when I was trying to adjust the heater today. After a bit of testing, I traced it to the fluval return pump that was leaking stray voltage into the tank. Not very impressed with this failure given that the pump is less than a month all.

Just wonder what are options for nonstock return pumps that would fit the evo13.5 back chamber and return line size ? Thanks!

Others have recommended this one. I ordered one on Amazon this morning.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004ZJDN4W

tenurepro · Jul 21, 2018

Thanks, and does it work with the tubing and nozzle that came with the evo13.5

tenurepro · Jul 22, 2018

Ok, please check out this sweet ATO that @WallyB made for me for the Evo 13.5 - super cool!
Also, and update on the SPS and my plans for lights

Reef of Fillory · Jul 22, 2018

tenurepro said:
Hi All. So I had a nasty electric shock when I was trying to adjust the heater today. After a bit of testing, I traced it to the fluval return pump that was leaking stray voltage into the tank. Not very impressed with this failure given that the pump is less than a month all.

Just wonder what are options for nonstock return pumps that would fit the evo13.5 back chamber and return line size ? Thanks!

I use the Sicce Syncra 1.0 pump, it works with the stock tubing, but needs a little finesse to get passed the lip on the center compartment coming into the return compartment. Great pump, super quiet and really is an improvement on flow

tenurepro · Jul 22, 2018

Reef of Fillory said:
I use the Sicce Syncra 1.0 pump, it works with the stock tubing, but needs a little finesse to get passed the lip on the center compartment coming into the return compartment. Great pump, super quiet and really is an improvement on flow

Awesome... will start shopping!

Robert McCreary · Jul 23, 2018

sure why not i'll share mine

filtration: i run the AL 115 mini skimmer 24/7 some light carbon filter floss and a refugium along with the stock return pump (needs upgrade).
lighting i have the ai prime hd
circulation: im using two current usa eflux 660 wave makers
2 clowns (named Bonnie and Clyde) several snails. 1 hermit blue leg and a skunk cleaner shrimp (named Vladamir; Phillip for short, lol)
acroporas softies and lps. and one bubble tip anemone no ID

older pic but relevant

BoBoBREWSKI · Jul 23, 2018

Reef of Fillory said:
I use the Sicce Syncra 1.0 pump, it works with the stock tubing, but needs a little finesse to get passed the lip on the center compartment coming into the return compartment. Great pump, super quiet and really is an improvement on flow

tenurepro said:
Awesome... will start shopping!

Some guys have said the 1.0 is too much flow and that the 0.5 is perfect.
See this thread
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/evo-13-5-return-pump.358414/

tenurepro · Jul 23, 2018

BoBoBREWSKI said:
Some guys have said the 1.0 is too much flow and that the 0.5 is perfect.
See this thread
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/evo-13-5-return-pump.358414/

Thanks for the tip

BoBoBREWSKI · Jul 23, 2018

Anyone have any experience with using these Random Flow Generators instead of the stock nozzles?

https://vividcreativeaquatics.com/product-category/water-movement/?lid=r2rsig

Robert McCreary · Jul 23, 2018

BoBoBREWSKI said:
Anyone have any experience with using these Random Flow Generators instead of the stock nozzles?

https://vividcreativeaquatics.com/product-category/water-movement/?lid=r2rsig

im interested in that as well.

Mavric · Jul 23, 2018

Just wanted to share my 2 month update using this tank. Only changes are an intank media basket in first section and the addition of a 240gph powerhead. Added a yellow tail damsel and a couple red legged hermit crabs (which stole the shell from a nassarius snail and left his guts everywhere. MASSIVE bacterial bloom from that. Had to take everything out of the tank to find the chunks. I couldn’t even see through the water).

Current corals are a torch, frogspawn, hammer of god zoa, and blasto zoa. All currently sitting at bottom until I figure out their new home. Torch is still bleached but starting to get its color back in some of its arms and extending more and more each day.