Brian60077
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Glad my friend stopped by to look at the tank yesterday afternoon. he has the same Fluval Evo 13.5 I do. He noticed what i suspected, that the return pump either was not pumping properly or at all. He told me how to take it out, and put it in a bucket of salt water, and it was not pumping. He told me how to take it apart, said you'll need to know this for monthly maintenance anyway, I had to learn the hard way... took the one cover off, pulled out impeller, we both thought it looks ok, put it back together and still didn't pump. Took off cover again, he said use this thin screwdriver and turn the impeller a few times, put it back together again and now it pumps good. he also adjusted the protien skimmer a little, said it is probably a good thing you had that running even though it was set too high, since you put fish in and the return pump was playing dead. 36 hours after putting my beautiful Clarkii Clowns in, they are happy and swimming around, only hid the fist night, corals are happy and now have the pump, power head and skimmer working as they should. Excuse the one snail for photobombing the picture, but the latest picture of it. Snail is in the lower right corner of glass. Only thing is i wish the temperature was slightly lower, wish it was 78 degrees instead of 79.5 or 80 but it is stable.
