Polyps Galore, 70+ Colony Zoa tank

[i2as kass]

Just a few new shots of the zoa garden, everything is starting to grow in finally! Hope everyone enjoys!

These are with my Panasonic DMC-TZ1 Camera using an underwater case and the underwater camera setting. The new zoa tank is working out pretty well, currently stocked with 2 red long finned fairy wrasses, 1 Copperband Butterfly, 1 BiColor Dotty Back, 4 Baby bangii's and 1 Saddle back clown (Will be trapping the bangiis and clown shortly).

Lighting is an 8 39W Tek 5 unit with 5 Actinic + and 3 Daylights.

[i2as kass]

[CMcNeil]

nice zoa garden you have there i always love the look of an all zoa or all shroom tank.something about the simplicity of it all makes it work.

[Dave VG]

Wow very very nice!!!!

[nathan.hales]

do you have a full tank shot? looks awesome!!!!

[glextank]

+1 for the full tank shot!! I love the eye of rah! I can't wait to get all our zoas transfered to our new tank and watch them grow! We have around 35 diff varietes of zoas now and am always collecting. It's neat to see what they will turn into!!
Awesome tank!

[ctmgardea]

awesome! nice tank and beautiful zoa's!

[FOSELONE]

Nice pics


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[CoralKingdom]

Very nice tank! All those zoas seem to be screaming "POP" at me! very nice colors!

[Just2Many]

Omg my girlfriend says I need one! Do you dose iodine at all? Or what do you dose?

[TCT]

very nice tank

[scuba guy ron]

+1 on a full tank shot

[rrnowwho]

Wow. You have a very impressive collection. Great pictures. Yes, full tank shot please.

[i2as kass]

Thanks for all the compliments guys, tank is pretty low key as its attached to my 350g system. Feed a whole mixture of different foods and am currently running the ProdiBio System.

Here is a recent FTS and attached to the main tank:





Nitrate reduction is taken care of by ProdiBio, 150 Red Mangroves, Cheato "River", 350lb Liverock and a Vertex 15 Biopellet reactor.

[KafudaFish]

Golf clap.

Could you give more details about oh everything?

[Just2Many]

Not only is it awesome but a Cheato Channel Really?

[zooty]

That is a really awesome tank!

Thanks for sharing

[i2as kass]

Originally Posted by KafudaFish

Golf clap.

Could you give more details about oh everything?

Total system volume is around 350g, including a 70g Sump, 30g Fuge, 20g Frag tank (The "Cheato River"), 65g Zoa tank and 170g Display.

If your looking for more specifics here is the journal I use on a Canadian Reefing site.

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=62810

The Cheato channel swaps into a frag tank when I have extra stock but it grows the stuff like no other. Within the span of 2 weeks my cheato gets so thick I pull it out for trimming and it actually maintains its block shape. Great little mini environment, PACKED with life including swarms of live mysis shrimp and spawning limpets.

Was looking for a bit more natural filtration so I also attached a 30g almost completely full of livesand to the system. Have been growing red mangroves in there for about a year now.

Golf clap.

Could you give more details about oh everything?

Thank you! Speaking of golf, Tiger and Elin are finally divorced so to add some humor to everyone's day:

What's the difference between a car and a golf ball? Tiger can drive a golf ball 400 yards.

Did you hear Tiger changed his name to Cheetah?

Woods cancelled three meetings with police and took almost a week to post an apology on his website. Which is odd, normally it doesn’t take Tiger that long to figure out how to play a bad lie.

If the only person that can beat Tiger is a blonde with big breasts, it’s time for Phil Mickelson to bleach his hair.

.... Okay enough of that before I get banned lol.

Not only is it awesome but a Cheato Channel Really?

Cheato Channel producing high quality Cheato blocks .

That is a really awesome tank!

Thanks for sharing

Your welcome, thanks for the compliment!

[blasterman789]

Nice..............

I rally want to know some details on what you feed the Zoas.

[sdelsol15]

wow beautiful how long ahve you had your tank and how many gallons is it i cant wait im saving up about to set up a 150 gallon tank wit zoas and a lionfish boosted

[Peale]

Holy Moses! Absolutely stunning!!!

[i2as kass]

Originally Posted by blasterman789

Nice..............

I rally want to know some details on what you feed the Zoas.

Not only what, but when is the real question.

The zoas are fed a special blend of food (Well actually the whole tank is fed this stuff)

1 Whole Jar of this stuff


Also added into the mix was:
2 lbs Muscles
2 lbs Manilla Clams
15 Giant Shrimp
7 Large Oysters
4 Minced Carrots
1 Half Head Broccoli
1 Bottle Selcon
1 Bottle SeaChem Amino acid supplement
2 Bottles of Coral food soak
1 Half Bottle Reefroids
1 Half Bottle freeze dried phyto

Now here is the special part, I have no reaction at all with this food for a feeding response during the day. At night time it's a whole different story, unless you have moon lights they will stay shut so those are also important.

At around 1-2am I turn the return pump off, dial back the close loop and broadcast feed the whole tank. Let it sit until I wake up @ around 8:00am and then turn everything back on. I get a slight temp drop but nothing to large and then keep only the actinics on for the rest of the day.

wow beautiful how long ahve you had your tank and how many gallons is it i cant wait im saving up about to set up a 150 gallon tank wit zoas and a lionfish boosted

The zoa tank is 65g it has only been running for about 2 months but I have owned most of the zoas before that point.

Holy Moses! Absolutely stunning!!!

Thank you! Your kind words are like daggers to my Visa card, only makes me go out and buy more haha.

[sdelsol15]

whats the name of stuff you feed them that jar and how long have you had your zoas and by the way beautiful tank very nice i should have plent of space for my zoas 48x24x30 wit just a lionfish and a harlequin tusk or maybe 2 volitan lionfish

[blasterman789]

Hmm, protein saturation in the water column at night. Interesting.

I've run into a couple people who cut their waterflow at night in softie / LPS tanks and get better growth. Obviously there's something to it.

[i2as kass]

Originally Posted by sdelsol15

whats the name of stuff you feed them that jar and how long have you had your zoas and by the way beautiful tank very nice i should have plent of space for my zoas 48x24x30 wit just a lionfish and a harlequin tusk or maybe 2 volitan lionfish

Its just a high quality multigreen supplement from the drug store.

Hmm, protein saturation in the water column at night. Interesting.

I've run into a couple people who cut their waterflow at night in softie / LPS tanks and get better growth. Obviously there's something to it.

It doesn't happen every night but at least 2-3 times per week. In the wild planktonic levels and protein saturation levels would be highest when there is the least light and flow.

While thunderstorms can occur at any time, they most frequently occur mid to late afternoon when temperatures are high and instability is greatest. The frequency of thunderstorms falls after sunset to reach a low around dawn when temperatures are lowest. They do not occur mostly at night.-Some Meteorologist

I'm no expert but so far it has been working very well, I purchased that DarthMaul colony with 3 polyps and in 4 months I'm at about 43 polyps.