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
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