MrDLHughesY’s First Reef Tank Fluval Evo 13.5

MrDLHughesY · Feb 18, 2020

Better late than never guys.. thought I would make a build thread. I originally bought my tank in January 2019. I ran all stock items for the first 4 months or so then I added the chamber one intank media basket running filter floss and foam in the top, carbon in the middle and some rowaphos and bio rings at the bottom.

Few pics From when I first started to where I am at now in 12 months. No longer have the black and white clown as traded them in for a pair of onyx Picasso clown which I unfortunately found behind my tank a couple of weeks ago.

MrDLHughesY · Feb 18, 2020

I have also upgraded to reefled 50 lights. Sicce syncra silent 0.5 pump and have the jebao sw2 wavemaker on the way.

JoshO · Feb 18, 2020

Have you got a background on the aquarium?

MrDLHughesY · Feb 18, 2020

JoshO said:
Have you got a background on the aquarium?

Did have to start with but took it off. Just don’t clean the back glass now so the coralline algae can grow on it.

JoshO · Feb 18, 2020

MrDLHughesY said:
Did have to start with but took it off. Just don’t clean the back glass now so the coralline algae can grow on it.

Did you use any coralline boosters or did it just come in on the live rock?

MrDLHughesY · Feb 18, 2020

JoshO said:
Did you use any coralline boosters or did it just come in on the live rock?

Just came in on the rock never added any boosters

MrDLHughesY · Feb 19, 2020

This is my tank at present.

JoshO · Feb 19, 2020

MrDLHughesY said:
This is my tank at present.

What's the small green coral on the substrate? Looks awesome

MrDLHughesY · Feb 19, 2020

JoshO said:
What's the small green coral on the substrate? Looks awesome

Green plate coral

MrDLHughesY · Aug 23, 2020

Thought I would post an updated pic of my tank at the moment as I’m in need of some info I am soon to be getting 22 new zoa Frags so need to free some space up in the tank so I am going to be removing the rock that’s encrusted in pavona and the rock with the two mushrooms on. My question is if I replace this with the real reef rock is it going to cause a new cycle or should I just swap it for live rock just don’t want to end up with unwanted hitchhikers ?