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Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« on: January 08, 2018, 16:54:02 »
Greetings everyone.  I just recently started in the SW hobby.  I went with the Fluval EVO 13.5 nano tank.  I am fortunate enough to have a friend that has helped me out quite a bit in regards to getting started.  I have done most of my research on the Nano-Reef forum but I hope to learn more here as well.

I started my tank up on 11/21/2017.  Here is where it stands as of two weeks ago.

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Re: NooB Introduction (Fluval EVO 13.5)
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2018, 17:20:50 »
Excellent start.  Great color and everything looks to be doing very well.  Good job.  When problems arise dont hesitate to post up.  Everyone here loves this hobby and is willing to help with what might come up.
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Re: NooB Introduction (Fluval EVO 13.5)
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2018, 23:09:01 »
Great video. Everything is thriving. Pretty awesome for your first tank. Nice job!

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Re: NooB Introduction (Fluval EVO 13.5)
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2018, 06:45:36 »
Thank you!  I owe my fast start to @anotherplanet

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Re: NooB Introduction (Fluval EVO 13.5)
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2018, 08:13:25 »
Thoughts / tips on getting rid of Cyano?  My sand bed is getting quite covered in it.  I have been running my lights from 2:00 PM to 9:30 PM with a sunrise / sunset timer that works with my stock lighting. I just reduced my light time by an hour (starting at 3:00 PM) I feel that my flow is good, this just started happening two weeks ago when I started to direct feed all of my corals a cocktail of reef roids and live phytoplankton. 

I have started to do this with the coral feeding, I feed once a week on the same day I do my weekly water change.  I feed the coral and then a few hours later I do the water change.  My logic here is to keep the nutrients down.

My guess is with the nano tank even small amount of nutrient introduction is a heavy load.

I have not done any sandbed vacuuming as part of my water changes, perhaps I should start there?


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Re: NooB Introduction (Fluval EVO 13.5)
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2018, 10:05:40 »
great looking video NanoDad
Are you sure its Cyano and not Diatoms...... all new tanks will most likely go thru a diatom bloom they are not pretty but go away after a few weeks.
I wouldn't stir the sand up too much in that size tank but you can suck it out with a turkey baster.
If it is cyano your going to need to use Chemi Clean. This does suck the oxygen out of the water so you would need to add bubbler to the tank for a few days
I would also suggest more snails to help with algae issues that will arise and some to stir the sand up a little     

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Re: NooB Introduction (Fluval EVO 13.5)
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2018, 11:14:07 »
Here is what I am looking at in the bed.  On the edges where the bed meets the glass it looks slightly red in color and starting to grow "hair"

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Re: NooB Introduction (Fluval EVO 13.5)
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2018, 14:08:07 »
Thats Diatoms will go away as tank matures usually takes 3 weeks to a couple months. looks good just a normal process
cyano is usually dark red and a mat of slime

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Re: NooB Introduction (Fluval EVO 13.5)
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2018, 08:37:26 »
Things seem to be running well so far.  I ran my parameters this morning, and I'm getting consistent results.  Salinity is 1.025 according to my refractometer.

I would like to expand upon my clean up crew, perhaps more snails? 

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2018, 08:26:21 »
Here is my week 7 update. 


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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2018, 08:29:12 »
Current coral, these were all sourced from Curtis aka AnotherPlanet.  Picture quality is low as these were taken with my Iphone6s


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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2018, 09:10:57 »
Every Saturday I complete my weekly Coral Feeding a few hours prior to my weekly water change.



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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #12 on: January 14, 2018, 11:53:22 »
Excellent. You mentioned a clean up crew in an earlier post. I like the Florida fighting counch. They do a nice job on the sand we. Probably  1 or 2 would be nice. They’ve got long snouts and they’re kind of fun to watch.

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2018, 08:04:22 »
Excellent. You mentioned a clean up crew in an earlier post. I like the Florida fighting counch. They do a nice job on the sand we. Probably  1 or 2 would be nice. They’ve got long snouts and they’re kind of fun to watch.

Thank you for the tip!

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2018, 08:49:41 »
Some updated pictures from my display.  I am starting to see / feel the limitations of my stock lighting.  I am noticing that some of the frags are a bit on the dull side in regards to color.  I intend on running this all in one as is for at least a year.  I have young boys at home that I know will NOT be able to keep their hands out of an open display tank.

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium Week 8 Update
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2018, 10:23:58 »
Week 8 update (the 2 month mark)


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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #16 on: January 22, 2018, 07:42:00 »
Looking good. Maybe add some nassarius snails to churn the sand a bit?
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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #17 on: January 22, 2018, 08:21:20 »
Looking good. Maybe add some nassarius snails to churn the sand a bit?

More snails is on my radar.  I have one nassarius in there now, I had a second one but it somehow died.

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #18 on: January 28, 2018, 07:53:35 »
Week 9 update....


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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2018, 09:25:56 »
Week 10!

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #21 on: February 19, 2018, 13:35:29 »
4 Month Update

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #22 on: February 19, 2018, 13:48:43 »
Looking good

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium (100 Days Update)
« Reply #23 on: March 01, 2018, 11:56:19 »
100 Days In

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #24 on: March 01, 2018, 14:36:16 »
Your doing a good job, everything is growing nicely. Consider getting some Chemiclean in there to nip that cyano bacteria in butt before it gets out of hand.

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #25 on: March 01, 2018, 15:25:15 »
Your doing a good job, everything is growing nicely. Consider getting some Chemiclean in there to nip that cyano bacteria in butt before it gets out of hand.
I’ve been so consumed with coral problems I haven’t been able to discuss my little cyano outbreaks. What does Chemiclean do Brian?

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #26 on: March 01, 2018, 18:56:09 »
Chemiclean kills the Cyanobacteria

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #27 on: March 01, 2018, 20:30:10 »
I will second the chemiclean recommendation. I used chemiclean and a 2 day blackout twice a year on my last tank and it stayed pretty much cyano and algae free.


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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #29 on: March 08, 2018, 09:21:06 »
Looks great! Nice job

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #30 on: March 19, 2018, 09:23:53 »
15 Weeks In The Books


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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #31 on: April 02, 2018, 13:22:13 »
Quick update, picked up 3 conchs from Gerbers last weekend.


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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #32 on: April 02, 2018, 13:55:49 »
Looking good, nice growth on the birdsnest coral

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #33 on: April 09, 2018, 08:15:38 »
Quick update, it's amazing to see the progress of the birdsnest with this budget all in one.  Everyone dogs the stock lighting of this tank, I argue otherwise.


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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #34 on: April 09, 2018, 22:13:05 »
I agree it is doing a great job. All the corals are growing well

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #35 on: May 10, 2018, 08:24:48 »
6 month update.  I need to tackle the diatom situation, hopefully a wavemaker corrects this.  I think my flow at the substrate level is far too low?

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #36 on: May 10, 2018, 19:49:41 »
Looks great. Are you using the light it came with?


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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #37 on: May 12, 2018, 21:27:34 »
Great video. Everything is thriving. Pretty awesome for your first tank. Nice job!

That's because I trained him and you trained me. So Nice Job to you sir.


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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #38 on: May 14, 2018, 11:47:47 »
That's because I trained him and you trained me. So Nice Job to you sir.


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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #40 on: May 15, 2018, 10:26:13 »

Looking really good. For your first reef aquarium, you are killing it. You haven't even lost a single coral. That is the real beauty.


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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #41 on: May 24, 2018, 09:33:44 »
Because more video.........


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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #42 on: June 21, 2018, 10:16:15 »
A quick June update, be sure to change settings on the YouTube video player to play in 1080.  I am fighting the uglies with my substrate


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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #43 on: July 03, 2018, 12:44:26 »
Because it's July

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #44 on: August 28, 2018, 10:45:29 »
Still rolling in August.  This is the 9 month point.  It appears that my historically mild mushroom has built up some confidence and is overtaking my once large and happy hammer coral.

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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #45 on: November 20, 2018, 08:33:03 »
On the cusp of the one year mark....


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Re: Fluval EVO 13.5 My 1st Aquarium
« Reply #46 on: November 28, 2018, 09:32:44 »
Officially one year


 

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