TnKidd's Evo

TnKidd · Sep 7, 2021

Hi everyone. 1st post on R2R (besides introductions )

I know everyone seems to have an Evo 13.5 so this will be more of a journal vs a show off thread lol

I purchased this tank while Petco was having a 20% off if you bought online and pick up in store so I pulled the trigger on an Evo.

July 22th I set the tank up with roughly 10 lbs of Caribsea Arag-Alive Fiji Pink. Around 11 lbs of live rock and saltwater from the LFS and let it cycle.

August 15th I put the Intank filter kit in chamber 1 with Intank filter floss, the charcoal and ceramics from the Evo Filter and a bag of Chemi-pure Elite.
placed a Eheim adjustable heater in chamber 2 and a Tunze 1073.008 pump to upgrade the Fluval pump.

Today (9-7) I went to my local LPS and puchased a pair of Frostbite Clowns, a Yellow Watchman Goby, A cleaner shrimp, 2 nassarius snails and 2 Astaeas (I think haha)

These is what the LFS called Astaeas, When I asked for Turbo's they said they didnt have Turbos but had Astreas? can anyone confirm?

I also bought a couple frags, A GSP and a couple different zoas (1 green and 1 orange) They are all looking a bit ticked off right now but have started to open a little bit in the past 3 hours

Still using stock lights, We will see how it goes!

Water Testing today before purchasing the livestock (Via API)

Ni- 0
Ph- 8.2
Ammonia- < .25
Nitrates- 5ppm
Salinity- 1.023

sunken3 · Sep 7, 2021

looking good. I (of course) have an Evo as well.

jfoahs04 · Sep 7, 2021

Looks good! Running the same tank myself.

TnKidd · Sep 7, 2021

I think I may have butchered the litte green zoa. it was a 2 for 25$ deal and it was tinyyyyyy. 1st time taking coral off of plugs. Fingers crossed lol

sunken3 · Sep 7, 2021

TnKidd said:
I think I may have butchered the litte green zoa. it was a 2 for 25$ deal and it was tinyyyyyy. 1st time taking coral off of plugs. Fingers crossed lol

They are usually pretty hardy for handling.. (be careful though they can be highly toxic).

TnKidd · Sep 22, 2021

2 month update

Everything seems to be settling in well. Had a rogue snail that kept knocking my 2 little zoa frags off the rocks but I think I may have not glued them too well. I let them chill in the sand bed for the past couple of weeks, they grew a little bit and I tried to glue them again today, fingers crossed so far so good.

Last week I purchased a couple more coral frags, I got another Zoa, a couple tiny Acans and a Birdsnest.

A couple days later I saw that the Acan frag came with a couple hitchikers, Aiptasia. ( bottom of rock frag )

My attempt at eradicating it was to try and pull it off with tweezers, it tucked itself into a little cranny in the rock so i dug and ground the tweezers in to squish it, lol. scrubbed it with a toothbrush and let it sit in tap water for 10 minutes (not covering the acan) then put a dab of super glue where it was a buried it in the sand to where only the Acan was sticking out.