Another Fluval Evo build from Walnut Creek.

[WillU]

Wanted to share some updates!

My torch split into 3 heads but is looking a bit sad/deflated. I've been testing and my calcium is a bit low so guessing that might be it so trying to slowly increase it to about 420ish. Hopefully that helps.
Everything else is doing great and starting to grow and my back wall is getting starting to grow coraline.
My mocha storm was beating up my other clown pretty bad so ended up trading the other clown in and got a smaller Wyoming White and so far so good.
Lastly, I picked up a white pincushion urchin and a pistol shrimp for my Yasha Goby.

 

[WillU]

Well have some bad news

I woke up this morning and seems like literally overnight my torch got brown jelly disease so I pulled it out and tossed it to at least try to save the rest of my coral from getting it. I have a decent amount of flow so there was some floating around already. I'm pretty bummed, it was my most expensive and favorite coral of the bunch and I got it as 1 head that split into 3.

 

[WillU]

So far no sign of BJD on any other corals which is amazing. Giving it a week or two to be sure before getting another torch from CaliKid.

 

[WillU]

Haven't posted an update in forever! Ordered an AI Prime so that's exciting and should help everything grow better.

I did win a rock structure at the last frag swap so I added that, went through a mini cycle, lost some coral but have since added new stuff and the tank is looking better than ever!

Added a rainbow BTA, bunch of zoas and acans, and of course all the new rock.

 

[WillU]

 

[WillU]

 

[Darkxerox]

Haven't posted an update in forever! Ordered an AI Prime so that's exciting and should help everything grow better.

I did win a rock structure at the last frag swap so I added that, went through a mini cycle, lost some coral but have since added new stuff and the tank is looking better than ever!
View attachment 48888Added a rainbow BTA, bunch of zoas and acans, and of course all the new rock.

Post that in the photo contest!

 

[WillU]

Post that in the photo contest!

Where at? I'm terrible at navigating BAR lol

 

[Darkxerox]

Where at? I'm terrible at navigating BAR lol

Front page has all the featured posts. https://www.bareefers.org/forum/threads/july-2023-photo-of-the-month.34271/

 

[WillU]

Front page has all the featured posts. https://www.bareefers.org/forum/threads/july-2023-photo-of-the-month.34271/

Sweet! Will post!

 

[WillU]

Got the new light setup and added a couple more corals from CaliKid.

 

[WillU]

 

[WillU]

 

[WillU]

Haven't been very active here for a bit but for good reason. We bought a house!! We're no longer in Walnut Creek, we moved out to Oakley so luckily still close enough to continue to visit Cos at CaliKid and join any future meetups/frag swaps.

Moving both tanks was not as difficult as I thought it would be so with the help of my brother we got both moved within a couple hours and had no casualties! I actually had my nem split the day after the move.

As far as a tank update goes, most things are going well. I can't seem to keep SPS and my nem decided to walk the tank and kill all my acans and some of my zoas which sucks but I knew I was risking that when putting a nem in such a small tank.

I also setup an ATO because I got tired of refilling bottles and the location of the tank is not as close to a sink anymore so pouring water over carpet was getting a little risky.

Threw in a pic of my planted betta tank too, that was really fun to setup and a good contrast to the reef tank.

 

[WillU]

Figured I should toss in some updated pics. Don't even know what I have going on in here anymore but the tank is thriving, my nem turned into like 15 nems and I have a few other random additions. Overall I think the tank is pretty stable now and is just chugging along.

Did have a pretty bad bubble algae outbreak when my emerald crab died. I guess I didn't know how well he doing keeping things in order. Few large water changes and a lot of manual removal + the addition of two emerald crabs took care of it pretty quickly.

I also have a bunch of aiptasia in my overflow but I have two pepermint shrimp that keep the display tank clear. I guess I could tackle them in the overflow but unless somebody here tells me otherwise I don't think it's a big deal since they don't pop up in my display tank ever.

 

[ReyDeFarts]

Tank looks amazing! I love my EVO

 

[WillU]

Tank looks amazing! I love my EVO

Thanks! The EVO is such a good base for a build. I think if I was to start over I'd do a waterbox though since the only thing I kept from the EVO was the tank itself lol

 

[ReyDeFarts]

Thanks! The EVO is such a good base for a build. I think if I was to start over I'd do a waterbox though since the only thing I kept from the EVO was the tank itself lol

Yeah, same here. Upgraded pump...upgraded media basket...upgraded light
haaa haaaa

 

[yosemiteclimber]

Looking good! I really need to pay more attention to mine, but it's going to be retired in place of an IM 20 long soon...

 

[tribbitt]

Love the BTAs. Very nice nano!