The Official Fluval Evo 13.5 Support Group Thread.

[Mike from TN]

How you like the Westinghouse battery?

I like it. Got the smallest one they offer. We very rarely lose power here and when we do, it’s USUALLY back on within an hour or two.
I tested it on a full charge and it ran my return pump for about 6 hours and could have gone longer. Just recently got the second one in case we lose power for longer or if I need to also run my heater.

 

[thewire]

I like it. Got the smallest one they offer. We very rarely lose power here and when we do, it’s USUALLY back on within an hour or two.
I tested it on a full charge and it ran my return pump for about 6 hours and could have gone longer. Just recently got the second one in case we lose power for longer or if I need to also run my heater.

Thanks. I am thinking getting one or Jackery 240 to run my return pump (8/9W) or just power head if needed in case of power loss.

 

[Adamantium]

In now use mine as a coral and invert qt tank. It’s so much easier taking care of a larger volume of water. That said here’s my setup
Ai prime 16hd. Uv sterilizer. Skimmer. Sicce 1.0

Nice! What skimmer and UV are you running?

 

[Rickybobby]

Nice! What skimmer and UV are you running?

Green killing machine and Fluval ps2

 

[reefinatl]

Green killing machine and Fluval ps2

Thoughts on the skimmer?

 

[Rickybobby]

That skimmer works. It does. However with a sicce 1.0 I find that it’s super sensitive to the water level. Now that I run an ai prime. The evaporation is quite significant so it’s really finicky. I now find that I’m struggling to get nutrients. I’m at 2ppm nitrate and .03 pho’s. So really now I don’t even have it on anymore.

 

[Mike from TN]

Happy Easter and Good Morning my fellow Evo lovers!
@Rickybobby
You‘lol be fine without the skimmer in that tank as long as you’re on some kind of a “regular” schedule with water changes. I had the PS2 also and ditched it after about a month. I was also dealing with low nutrients and when I got rid of the skimmer, they came up to acceptable levels.

 

[FishyFishFish]

Is anyone still using the stock light (particularly with the Nicrew Pro timer)?

I have my Nicrew timer set at 55 brightness on the dimmer, which to the naked eye looks almost fully bright (and not 55% brightness). I am running it from 12 to 7pm and then dimming it to level 3 for an hour, which gives a nice blue hue even with the white channel still turned on.

I'm wondering if this is long enough for my Zoas, Candy Cane and Ricordeas or whether I should be running the white for longer.

Having read the reviews about the Nicrew timer I wasn't expecting much, but having used it I am very happy with it and wouldn't run the stock light without it.

 

[Sharkbait19]

I just run the stock light for 10 hours and that seems to work fine.

 

[FishyFishFish]

10 hours with the white on?

I might bump the dimmer level up and try a little bit longer. Everything seems ok but I think there is room for improvement. The light isn't on yet and the Ricordeas appear to be reaching a little for it, just based on the room ambient light.

 

[Sharkbait19]

Sometimes I switch to blue, but a lot of my corals seem to prefer the strong lighting.

 

[Rickybobby]

I did have many corals Including sps grow with the stock light. However when I switched to an ai prime 16hd. There was no looking back

 

[Sharkbait19]

One complaint is that I can’t get any good color out of the corals in the stock lighting. For example, my toxic green trumpet is more of a mint green under the tank lights. Whenever compared to my lfs, the corals just don’t show anything...