Wee Mad Arthur’s Soft Fluval Evo 13.5

[Wee Mad Arthur]

Coral
Sapphire Sky Zoanthid
Gatorade Zoanthid
Radioactive Dragon Eyes Zoanthid
Fire And Ice Zoanthid
Sunny D Zoanthid
Purple Death Zoanthid
Utter Chaos Zoanthid

Golden Silk Palythoa
Red People Eater Palythoa
Galactica Palythoa
Electric Apple Palythoa

Golden Cabbage Leather (now green)
Neon Green Cabbage Leather
Japanese Neon Green Toadstool
Golden Leather Toadstool
Golden Finger Leather (now green)
Pearl Polyped Lobed Finger Leather
Australian Green Finger Leather
Australian Green Sinularia Leather

Indonesian Ultra Fluorescent Green Star Polyps
Lava Lamp Mushroom

Shrimp
Lysmata wurdemanni x2

Snails
Banded Trochus x6

Equipment
Fluval Evo 13.5
2x Fluval Sea Marine Nano led bluetooth (added January 28th 2020)
Sicce Syncra 0.5 Return Pump
Jebao SINE Cross Flow 90 (SCP-90)
D-D Schego 100w Titanium Heater (in chamber 2)
D-D Dual Temperature Controller
Boyu FS-55 Fan x2
AutoAqua Smart ATO (in chamber 3)
Intank Chamber 1 media basket, water director and plug
Fluval Bagged Carbon

 

[maroun.c]

Nice tank you got thre,
Love the leather collection.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Coral
Sapphire Sky Zoanthid
Gatorade Zoanthid
Radioactive Dragon Eyes Zoanthid
Fire And Ice Zoanthid
Sunny D Zoanthid
Purple Death Zoanthid
Utter Chaos Zoanthid

Golden Silk Palythoa
Red People Eater Palythoa
Galactica Palythoa
Electric Apple Palythoa

Golden Cabbage Leather (now green)
Neon Green Cabbage Leather
Japanese Neon Green Toadstool
Golden Leather Toadstool
Golden Finger Leather (now green)
Pearl Polyped Lobed Finger Leather
Australian Green Finger Leather
Australian Green Sinularia Leather

Indonesian Ultra Fluorescent Green Star Polyps
Pulsing Xenia
Anthelia Blue Snowflake
Lava Lamp Mushroom

Shrimp
Lysmata wurdemanni x2

Equipment
Fluval Evo 13.5
Aqua Knight 30w Cree LED on 100% blue / 60% white
Fluval Timer
Eheim CompactON 600 Return Pump
Jebao SINE Cross Flow 90 (SCP-90) on slow wave
D-D Schego 100w Titanium Heater (in chamber 2)
D-D Dual Temperature Controller
Boyu FS-55 Fan x2
AutoAqua Smart ATO (in chamber 3)
Intank Chamber 1 media basket, water director and plug
Fluval Bagged Carbon

That's a lot of softies. Thanks for sharing

 

[Peace River]

Nice tank! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Wee Mad Arthur]

Nice tank you got thre,
Love the leather collection.

Thank you. I love leathers, unfortunately I’ve run out of space to add anymore.

 

[najer]

Very nice.

 

[Wee Mad Arthur]

Due to recent posts I realised that my Anthelia Blue Snowflake was in fact the dreaded blue clove polyp. It was growing in 3 places, 2 of them small removable rocks which have come out and a few polyps on a large rock which I’ve covered in Aiptasia-X.

Chiseled the pulsing Xenia island into a smaller piece as it was trying its hardest to reach across to the main rock work. Looks less imposing now as it had grown extremely bushy.

Eheim return pump has started humming loudly after cleaning, no idea why so going to have to look at that in detail.

Pic to follow.

 

[45ZoaGarden]

Due to recent posts I realised that my Anthelia Blue Snowflake was in fact the dreaded blue clove polyp. It was growing in 3 places, 2 of them small removable rocks which have come out and a few polyps on a large rock which I’ve covered in Aiptasia-X.

Chiseled the pulsing Xenia island into a smaller piece as it was trying its hardest to reach across to the main rock work. Looks less imposing now as it had grown extremely bushy.

Eheim return pump has started humming loudly after cleaning, no idea why so going to have to look at that in detail.

Pic to follow.

Yikes!

 

[Wee Mad Arthur]

 

[45ZoaGarden]

I think you can get more coral in there

 

[Wee Mad Arthur]

I think you can get more coral in there

oh there‘s always space somewhere and I can always upgrade

 

[45ZoaGarden]

oh there‘s always space somewhere and I can always upgrade

That’s how I am. My wife “you don’t have room for that!” Nah. If I can’t find a spot, I’ll put it in the frag tank ;Hilarious

 

[Wee Mad Arthur]

Can’t get this eheim return pump to quieten down now for some reason. Ordered a Sicce syncra 0.5 instead.

 

[Wee Mad Arthur]

I was looking through my unused aquatics stuff and found a Fluval Marine Nano LED Bluetooth light that I’d forgotten about. I bought it and then realised the coverage wasn’t good enough, I was going to buy another but got side tracked in reviews for other lights and ended up getting the aqua knight instead. Well, I thought I’d give it another go and really liked the more natural look that it created so I bought a 2nd light and I’m really pleased with the results. I’m running the sunny reef profile but I’ve modified sunrise to last 2 hours and changed the sunrise and sunset times. Obviously I can completely configure these but right now I’m happy with this profile.

Here is a comparison.

Before with 30w aqua knight

After with 2x Fluval Sea Marine Nano 20w

 

[45ZoaGarden]

I was looking through my unused aquatics stuff and found a Fluval Marine Nano LED Bluetooth light that I’d forgotten about. I bought it and then realised the coverage wasn’t good enough, I was going to buy another but got side tracked in reviews for other lights and ended up getting the aqua knight instead. Well, I thought I’d give it another go and really liked the more natural look that it created so I bought a 2nd light and I’m really pleased with the results. I’m running the sunny reef profile but I’ve modified sunrise to last 2 hours and changed the sunrise and sunset times. Obviously I can completely configure these but right now I’m happy with this profile.

Here is a comparison.

Before with 30w aqua knight

After with 2x Fluval Sea Marine Nano 20w

The new ones are pretty heavy on the whites. You’ll probably see more aglae growth...

 

[Wee Mad Arthur]

The new ones are pretty heavy on the whites. You’ll probably see more aglae growth...

Thanks, just dropped them 50%. Will see what happens.

 

[Wee Mad Arthur]

Small confession, I ended up turning white back up and so far no issues with algae. The corals are very happy.

Swapped the return pump out today whilst I was doing a water change. I’m not convinced all of these evo tanks are built to the exact same size in the back chamber. There was no way on Earth the Sicce 0.5 was fitting no matter what angle I tried, that baffle lip at the bottom stuck out way to far. I had to remove the front of the pump and the flow restrictor and then it fits with a small amount of room to spare.

 

[Wee Mad Arthur]

Bought some frag plug rocks for my leathers that were on the sand. The 2 toadstools came on tiles so I glued some plugs to the tiles. Gorilla Superglue Gel is brilliant stuff, I don’t know why I ever messed about trying to use reef fix previously.

 

[Mfield16]

I'm liking the scape. Are the rocks completely against the back glass?

 

[ScottR]

Cool softie tank! I’ve used sicce pumps. They work and are silent. I used I think Newa? brand which is eheim and it made the floor rattle.