Wicksy's Evo 13.5 Journal

[Wicksy]

Hey guys this is going to be a journal of my Fluval Evo 13.5 Heads up I've never had a journal before so I might be all over the place and this is my first salt water tank. I've had this tank running for over a year now it hasn't been doing much until recently so let's get started.

13.5 Gallon Evo: 22 L x 11.5 W x 15 H" (56 L x 29 W x 38 H cm)

Stand: old Rockstar bar fridge stand stolen from work

Filtration: InTank chamber one filter (Floss & 2 Chemi pure blue nano packs)

Return: Stock 132Gph Fluval pump (advice on an upgrade please)

Heater: Fluval M50 50W

Thermostat: (Need some recommendations)

ATO/AWC: AutoAqua auto water changer & auto top off (daily water changes around 4g/week) (4g distilled jug for ATO, 5g bucket for waste water, 5g bucket for fresh salt water with Fluval cp3 pump)

Powerhead: Jebao SW-2

Lighting: AI Prime 16HD (rigid stand fully extended running not so pirates file)

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1 Brittle star
1 Cleaner shrimp
1 LG blue dwarf hermit
3 SM blue dwarf hermit
1 nassarius snail
1 trochus snail
2 astrea snail
1 nerite snail
1 cerith snail
1 Bumble bee snail

Coral

1 Chalice
1 SPS frag (not sure of variety)
1 Green tip hammer
1 Purple tip hammer
1 Utter Chaos Zoa frag
1 GSP frag
1 Aussie Acan

Will attach some photos of setup, bare with me I'm a terrible photographer and my phone camera sucks. Also don't mind my horrific cable management (there isn't any) I swear I'll get to it.

Please if someone could help me exactly ID the corals I have, and some future coral addictions and placement ideas would be awesome!

 

[Auquanut]

Nice setup! I really like the "Rockstar" stand. Cant beat the price. Never had the 13.5, so I can't recommend a return pump. There are a lot of folks here that have that tank though that can probably help.

I use the BRS (Inkbird) heater controller, and it seems to stay dead on.

When you get a chance, why don't you wander over to the "Meet and Greet" Section and introduce yourself? There are loads of great folks here who would love to meet you.

 

[Wicksy]

Coral Update

1 Australian acan frag
1 Utter chaos frag
1 Hammer coral frag

Everything came from FragBox in Toronto super healthy the Utter chaos was only supposed to be two polyps but I got 6 and they're selling for $50/polyp so thanks FragBox! Also picked up a bumble bee snail

 

[Wicksy]

Purchased another Hammer from FragBox this time a purple tip. Also grabbed up a cerith snail and a small frag of GSP I'm going to glue to the back wall. Some updated photos I took trying out that Aquarium camera app with the orange filter.

 

[Wicksy]

Also added two big balls of cheato into chamber two in a media bag with the original tank light two sided taped to the back, can't really access the back of the tank well so couldn't shave off the honeycomb... Hoping this will be sufficient light.