shaverto Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Unfortunately I've done everything that's been suggested or has worked in every forum thread, YouTube video or review. Filter floss, sponges, moving it around. Not touching the walls. All of it. It runs perfectly silent in a sump tank where there is space around it but in the back chamber everything shakes and rattles. I will email aqueon and see what they say but at this point I'm lost for ideas. I think the tank just isn't rigid/stable enough to not rattle with the pump running. I'm starting to look at other ways of doing this, like a canister or HOB but I really don't want to. Super dissapointed. Link to comment
tetraodon Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 is it a brand new pump and tank? Link to comment
shaverto Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Yep, brand new. purchased from LFS on thursday. Link to comment
famousdan314 Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Yep, brand new. purchased from LFS on thursday. Maybe try running the pump for a little longer to let it break in. Link to comment
streamline.by.design Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Evolve8's are on sale at my local Petco. $50 each. Link to comment
Illuiix Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 So the evolve tanks are made of acrylic glass, not real glass? Link to comment
tetraodon Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Yes its made of acrylic and abs plastic Link to comment
seuadr Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Maybe try running the pump for a little longer to let it break in. Ive had mine for over a year and it does the same. Tried everything ive seen suggested, also tried shorter and longer tube, position of the pump,etc. No joy. Link to comment
streamline.by.design Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Quick 5 minute video of my dual Evolve8 setup. Link to comment
shaverto Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Quick 5 minute video of my dual Evolve8 setup. Wow, really awesome tanks. Link to comment
streamline.by.design Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Thank you. I love these tanks. Can't wait to move and set up a larger system, but these will be running in one way or another. Link to comment
tetraodon Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 i have a vid of mine on here somewhere, check it out, or search for lionfishmodels on youtube, its a great system and i love it Link to comment
roobot5000 Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Having kept freshwater planted tanks for a number of years, I finally have been bitten by the reef bug. I was stoked to see so many folks have Evo's up and running on this forum. I hope to yet another one of you very soon as I have the Evo8, but I'm still in the research phase before setting it up. I've read this entire thread, I'm curious to know if any of you have updates on your systems or recommendations for substrate? Link to comment
tetraodon Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Having kept freshwater planted tanks for a number of years, I finally have been bitten by the reef bug. I was stoked to see so many folks have Evo's up and running on this forum. I hope to yet another one of you very soon as I have the Evo8, but I'm still in the research phase before setting it up. I've read this entire thread, I'm curious to know if any of you have updates on your systems or recommendations for substrate? dont get anything really fine, my system was great, i recently upgraded and so the evo is cleaned out for now, ill stay active here to help others Link to comment
roobot5000 Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Thanks for the input, tetraodon! I've been reading the forums that very thing, the finer the sand the more apt it is to blow around the tank. I've been looking at Caribsea aragamax select or their Caribbean puka substrate? Have you had any experience with either? Anyone else? Also, there was some back and forth with respects to lighting in many of the threads: upgrading the light with either the beamswork's ultra reef LED clip lamp or par30 with a gooseneck? Any thoughts? Link to comment
tetraodon Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Thanks for the input, tetraodon! I've been reading the forums that very thing, the finer the sand the more apt it is to blow around the tank. I've been looking at Caribsea aragamax select or their Caribbean puka substrate? Have you had any experience with either? Anyone else? Also, there was some back and forth with respects to lighting in many of the threads: upgrading the light with either the beamswork's ultra reef LED clip lamp or par30 with a gooseneck? Any thoughts? well my recent experiance with is caribsea was i got bryopsis from it, so id say use cation, as for the light, youll get lots of different answers, i used a wave point light with really good results, ive never worked with beamsworks, but i use par30s over my combo sump right now. for par30/38 lights id go to coral compulsion, but take a look at reefbreeders, they have par30 and nano fixtures, the biggest issue with lights is what you want to do with the tank Link to comment
streamline.by.design Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I recently put a dual T5ho setup on mine and the corals went crazy. Good crazy. That was an upgrade from a beamworks, which did the trick for softies just fine. Link to comment
famousdan314 Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Nano box lights would be perfect for this little tank also. I miss having my evo 8 set up. Link to comment
erinelainerobertson Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Would love advice about a replacement pump. Just got back from 2 week vacation and found shrimp and fish dead. Snails are still alive. Temp was fine but water barely moving. Cleaned the pump out and it is moving things a bit but still seems very weak. We have a FOWLR tank but I would like to have coral eventually. Don't want to spend a lot. Our tank is 2 years old and that was the pump that came with it. What pump would you recommend? Thanks, Erin Link to comment
erinelainerobertson Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 OK after looking over the thread I am leaning toward the Rio 800 but see some complain it is too noisy. Link to comment
Skuba Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 My aqueon 8 drilled and plumbed as a display fuge next to my DT. This was after trimming but there's a bunch of different macros with a DIY full spectrum light that grows them ridiculously fast. I've had numerous things in here from Bengai cardinals, 2 different mantis, arrow crab and some other stuff. Thinking of adding a arrow again to watch eat the bristle worms lol. Link to comment
famousdan314 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 My aqueon 8 drilled and plumbed as a display fuge next to my DT. This was after trimming but there's a bunch of different macros with a DIY full spectrum light that grows them ridiculously fast. I've had numerous things in here from Bengai cardinals, 2 different mantis, arrow crab and some other stuff. Thinking of adding a arrow again to watch eat the bristle worms lol. http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/skubasti/media/D5F5C3A7-D43D-490E-BD69-3DFF95B7E9C1_zps4jpsbhof.jpg.html'> Would love to see some pics of the setup with the DT. I have my AE8 sitting empty In the garage and I'm curious how to do something similar for my JBJ30. I really like the idea of having a nice refugium with macros. Link to comment
mechishark7 Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 Would love advice about a replacement pump. Just got back from 2 week vacation and found shrimp and fish dead. Snails are still alive. Temp was fine but water barely moving. Cleaned the pump out and it is moving things a bit but still seems very weak. We have a FOWLR tank but I would like to have coral eventually. Don't want to spend a lot. Our tank is 2 years old and that was the pump that came with it. What pump would you recommend? Thanks, Erin I just replaced the stock pump in my evolve 2 with a hydor pico pump, they're tiny but put out and are silent, I have the 200gph model for my tank, they look huge in pictures on hydors website but they are tiny Link to comment
Ariyan Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 My little Evolve 2... a few weeks old. 10 months later and a few trims. Link to comment
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