Luxembourg Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 Intro: Hey guys, Luxembourg here. I am a longtime lurker and decided to make an account, and make an aquarium journal. I ended up getting a Fluval 13.5. This is my second reef/SW tank, After a yearlong hiatus I decided to startup another tank. I will (hopefully) update you guys on the status of my tank. Current setup (03/16/18): Tank: Fluval Evo 13.5 Rock and Sand: CaribSea Base Rock (Dry Rock) and CaribSea Arag-Alive "Fiji-Pink" Heater: Cobalt Neo-Therm 75w Lighting: Stock Fluval Evo 13.5 LEDs (I may upgrade, they seem sufficient for now) Cheap LED light for chaeto Filtration: First Chamber inTank Media filter. Chaeto, then filter floss in the top slot. Purigen and more filter floss in the second slot. In the bottom I have ChemiPure Elite and a little more filter floss to top (bottom?) it off. Spoiler Coralife Nano/Biocube Protein Skimmer (in 2nd chamber) Livestock: At least in my opinion, the most important part of a tank: Fish: x2 Black-Ice Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish x1 Royal Gramma Basslett x1 Tail Spot Blenny Invertebrates: x1 Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp x1 Blood Red Fire Shrimp x1 Candy Cane Pistol Shrimp x3 Dwarf Hermit Crabs x3 Nassarius Snails x2 Trochus Snails x2 Cerith Snails Corals Soft Coral Glove Polyps LPS Torch Coral ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pictures: Royal Gramma Basslett Tail Spot Blenny Blood Red Fire Shrimp Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp Torch Coral (below same frag under blue) Green Glove Polyps Thanks for taking the time to read my aquarium journal! I will end with my most recent FTS (updated 03/16/18). -Luxembourg FTS Archive: Spoiler 02/15/18 - Tank Setup 3 Quote Link to comment
Luxembourg Posted February 16, 2018 Author Share Posted February 16, 2018 (edited) 02/15/18 Water Parameters: PH: 8.3 Ammonia: 0.1ppm Nitrite: 0ppm Nitrate: 0ppm Specific Gravity: 1.023 Temperature: 78.5°F (should I aim for this, or lower?) Edited February 16, 2018 by Luxembourg Forgot to add temperature Quote Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Welcome to the community @Luxembourg, glad you joined us! You're right on track with your tank temperature I'd say, nothing to worry about. I like your plans, though your invertebrates list might be a little heavy, unless you plan on feeding everyone. That might make for a higher bio-load for a tank this size. I'd consider skipping the hermit crabs and urchin, especially because they like to cause chaos and knock things over. Fewer snails as well, I'd imagine. Everything else should be able to handle the 'clean up crew' duties more than enough, and they'll still be hungry 1 Quote Link to comment
Luxembourg Posted February 27, 2018 Author Share Posted February 27, 2018 02/26/18 Water Parameters: PH: 8.0 Ammonia: 0.15ppm Nitrite: 0ppm Nitrate: 0ppm Specific Gravity: 1.023 Temperature: 78.4°F Got some Chaeto for the "mini-refugium": 2 Quote Link to comment
Luxembourg Posted March 2, 2018 Author Share Posted March 2, 2018 03/02/18 Water Parameters: PH: 8.0 Ammonia: 0.0ppm Nitrite: 0.35ppm Nitrate: 5.0ppm Specific Gravity: 1.022 Temperature: 79.9°F Quote Link to comment
NanoAaron Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 are you planning on keeping the chaeto in the third chamber? If so, aren't you worried of it getting sucked up into your return pump and gunking it up? 1 Quote Link to comment
Luxembourg Posted March 8, 2018 Author Share Posted March 8, 2018 19 hours ago, NanoAaron said: are you planning on keeping the chaeto in the third chamber? If so, aren't you worried of it getting sucked up into your return pump and gunking it up? I haven't really thought about that. I just purchased the inTank Media filter for the Evo 13.5, so I'll change my setup. Thanks for pointing this out. Quote Link to comment
Luxembourg Posted March 16, 2018 Author Share Posted March 16, 2018 Got some livestock! I list the new tank inhabitants in the OP. 2 Quote Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 Lovely new additions @Luxembourg, I'm a big fan of royal grammas. How are the cleaner shrimp and blood red fire shrimp getting along so far? 1 Quote Link to comment
Luxembourg Posted March 16, 2018 Author Share Posted March 16, 2018 3 minutes ago, Christopher Marks said: How are the cleaner shrimp and blood red fire shrimp getting along so far? Couldn't be better! The Fire Shrimp just lurks under the rock (you can see in the most recent FTS), only coming out occasionally. And the SSCS is all over the tank, but hangs out next to the Fire Shrimp. @Christopher Marks 1 Quote Link to comment
Luxembourg Posted April 8, 2018 Author Share Posted April 8, 2018 04/08/18 Water Parameters: pH: 7.8 Ammonia: 0.0ppm Nitrite: 0.0ppm Nitrate: 0.0ppm Specific Gravity: 1.018 Temperature: 75.9°F I'm going to buy some premade saltwater to try to help correct the pH and Specific Gravity (likely due to 24 hour power outage, luckily no livestock losses). Big updates coming soon! Quote Link to comment
Luxembourg Posted July 29, 2018 Author Share Posted July 29, 2018 Sorry for the absence. 07/27/18 Water Parameters: pH: 8.1 Ammonia: 0.0ppm Nitrite: 0.0ppm Nitrate: 0.0ppm Phosphate: 0.0ppm Specific Gravity: 1.018 Temperature: 76.6°F Quote Link to comment
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