fluval 13.5 mixed reef thread

David cornelius · Aug 4, 2018

set up my fluval 13.5 reef at the beginning of june 2018 i currently have
equipment: fluval heater, jabeo sw2, stock return pump, ai prime
live stock: false percula, true ocellaris, coral banded shrimp, pink monti cap, bubble gum digitada, starry eyed goni, red and blue zoas, green branching hammer, gold wall hamer, green torch coral, red encrusting cyphastrea, kenya tree, xenia, gsp, duncans, ausie red acan lord, ausie nuclear acan lord, red acan lord

Chrisfish · Aug 4, 2018

Welcome to R2R, very nice nano tank

David cornelius · Aug 4, 2018

Chrisfish said:
Welcome to R2R, very nice nano tank

thank you Chris

NY_Caveman · Aug 4, 2018

That is a pretty cool little tank. Welcome to the forum!

Katrina71 · Aug 4, 2018

Really pretty. More pics please!

David cornelius · Aug 4, 2018

A few shots of the corals, I've taken with the polyp lab coral view lens. Btw if you dont have some lenses to take some shots of your tank with it's a must, you wont regret it. By far one of the best purchases I've made

Katrina71 · Aug 4, 2018

Those are beautiful!

BoBoBREWSKI · Aug 4, 2018

Awesome

BoBoBREWSKI · Aug 4, 2018

Awesome

David cornelius · Sep 25, 2018

Its been a while since i have posted an update. The tank is doing well. i had a cyano problem not too long that took out some heads on my acans, which is a bummer. I have since got rid of the cyano, the problem was my ai prime had reds running on high. My phosphates are at .013 but i just setup a gfo reactor today to help battle that.

David cornelius · Oct 22, 2018

Little update on the nano. I have changed up the scape quite a bit, not for aesthetics but I just needed a little more room for the corals I plan on keeping. I have gotten rid of the cyano completely, the cause of it was too much red on the light. Just added in a few sps to the tank today that are not in great condition, I'm going to start dosing aquavitro fuel to try and get some of them looking healthy again. I have a shipment of coral coming in 2 days that consist of a candy cane coral, some scans, a green birds nest, watermelon zoas, and a couple Favias.

Crazeh · Oct 23, 2018

Looking good! How do you find the SW-2 powerhead? Considering upgrading my Fluval CP1.

And how did you deal with the Cyano? Also having a bit of an outbreak at the moment in my EVO.

David cornelius · Oct 23, 2018

Crazeh said:
Looking good! How do you find the SW-2 powerhead? Considering upgrading my Fluval CP1.

And how did you deal with the Cyano? Also having a bit of an outbreak at the moment in my EVO.

I bought the sw-2 powerhead off of amazon, and I love it. What kind of lights are you running. I use the AI prime and my problem was I had too much red in my light, so I turned it to no reds, and I haven't seen a trace of cyano since

Crazeh · Oct 24, 2018

David cornelius said:
I bought the sw-2 powerhead off of amazon, and I love it. What kind of lights are you running. I use the AI prime and my problem was I had too much red in my light, so I turned it to no reds, and I haven't seen a trace of cyano since

I just run the stock light but don't plan to upgrade that. Pleased you managed to find good solution though!

David cornelius · Oct 24, 2018

Shipment of new frags, will get a better picture when they start opening up

David cornelius · Dec 24, 2018

Ordered a trigger 26 sump and a nano hob overflow and plumbed them into my fluval 13.5. The RO skimmer pictured is old and dont run well so I'm going to upgrade here soon as well as make the second chamber a refugium

reef-rc · Dec 24, 2018

Holy crap! That sump at least double the water volume of your tank.

+following

David cornelius · Dec 24, 2018

reef-rc said:
Holy crap! That sump at least double the water volume of your tank.

+following

I needed a place to grow some crazy algaes and put a well oversized skimmer haha. Slowly buying equipment for a new system and hooking it up on my nano so whenever I finally upgrade I have everything I need

Gatling · Dec 25, 2018

You put a sump on a 13.5 ev0??? thats sick! I was going to ask what your filtration system was. Can you post more pics of how you got the overflow connected to the sump?

David cornelius · Dec 25, 2018

Gatling said:
You put a sump on a 13.5 ev0??? thats sick! I was going to ask what your filtration system was. Can you post more pics of how you got the overflow connected to the sump?

Just a nano hob overflow with flexible tubing. Simple for now. I plan on going with PVC at some point and making it a little more pretty but I just wanted to get it set up and running for a trial before I invested hundreds of dollars