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Emerald525

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Emerald525

I have this posted on my local forum but figured I would post here too.

 

Hardware:

 

IM Fusion 20

Light: Maxspect razor 16k with 120 degree optics

Live rock: sweet pieces

Cobalt Aquatics 75w heater

 

 

Filtration:

 

Intake media basket x 2

Filter floss

rock rubble in the back of the media basket

 

 

Salt:

 

Red sea coral pro 4 gallons every week

 

 

Flow:

 

Stock IM pump x 2 (took it out of a chipped nuvo 16 that I had)

MP 10

 

 

Zoa catalog:

Red devil PE sm chong bong

Chuckey's bride pink zipper

King Midas nuclear green

mary janes My clementine

Golden basket scarface Blue rhino

Yellow skirt rastas iron man

Blow pops

Eye of Ra

God of War

Mohawks

Candy apple reds

Sunset Sakuras

JF Jungle juice

Blue hornets

Fruit loops SM

Magicians

 

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Here's a picture wiht the doors on the stand and all the wires cleaned up:

 

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Here's the most recent FTS but there have been changes since then. I have lots more zoas and I will post pics once I get them all mounted.

 

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Emerald525

Fellow Zoa/Paly lover following along for the ride. Looks good so far. I like your scape!

 

Thanks! You should see the variety I have sitting on the tank bed now! I am lucky to have fellow zoa addicts near!

 

 

:welcome:

I like what I see so far. That's a beautiful pair of clowns.

 

Thanks! One is a black ice ocellaris and one is a blacker ice. I got a good deal at my LFS! :)

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Thanks! You should see the variety I have sitting on the tank bed now! I am lucky to have fellow zoa addicts near!

 

 

 

Thanks! One is a black ice ocellaris and one is a blacker ice. I got a good deal at my LFS! :)

 

I have 65 different one now I think after 2-3 months of collecting. Good luck with your newly developed addiction! :lol:

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Emerald525

Sadly it is not a new addiction! I was out of the hobby for about 2 years and then fell off the wagon so to speak but yes you have me beat with the varieties but I am close to you!

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Emerald525

The tank looks great! I really like those clowns. How are you liking the Maxspect Razor?

 

 

When I left the hobby I was ati T5's all the way. It took some getting used to for me. I don't like the shimmer effect from the LEDs and felt like the colors from my t5 were better but since I have tweaked the program a bit and made it more blue I am liking it a lot better!

 

 

Here is a close up of the clowns. I actually lost one clownfish and replaced it with a blacker ice. This was when I first introduced the new one (Rodrigo blacker ice). I used to have a clown anemone tank and I can usually tell right away if they are going to get along.

 

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Emerald525

Over the past 2 weeks I have picked up quite a few zoas. Thanks to some fellow reefers and my LFS. Some of them were given to me as I passed them off when I took down my tanks 2 years ago. I love this community and how we take care of each other!

 

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partyboizz01

What is your light schedule, I would like to use the Same settings Cuz of now my zoas seeming like they are stretching for light.

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Emerald525

Mine were doing that as well until I turned it up. I also like the color more when the B is about twice the A but I'm still tweaking it. Here's what I have right now :

 

Time A B

 

7:00am - 0% 1%

10:00am - 25% 45%

1:00pm - 35% 55%

4:00pm - 25% 45%.

7:00pm - 10% 25%

10:00pm - 0% 0%

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  • 2 weeks later...

Did some work on the tank and got some frags glued down. Already running out of room LOL! I'm used to having a 150 gallon tank!

 

Fortunately some of my friends held on to frags that I gave them and gave me some frags back.

 

I also picked up this sweet plate coral today!

 

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Thanks! Sorry about the grainy quality of the pictures. Every now and then the ghost skimmer throws out a bunch of microbubbles. It usually gets better with time!

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That's alot of nice zs and p's ! Very awesome!

Thank you! Fortunately there are a lot of zoa nuts around me and some of them were given to me by my fellow reefers. I was out of the hobby for 2 years and gave many of my frags to a friend and he was kind enough to give me some zoas. I'm pretty much out of room for zoas now and am just going to let them grow in now. I still have some room on the sand bed though!

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  • 3 weeks later...

I got my final fish at last week. A gold dwarf moray eel and I love him! His name is Rex.

I was watching to my horror the next day as he got really close to the vortech wacko.png. I had images of dwarf gold moray eel frags and pretty sure none of you would have bought them! ohmy.png and as I rushed to the tank he quickly went through the overflow. doh.gif

 

Had to pull out the mediabaskets and there he was hanging out... dejection.png There was no way I was going to be able to net him so as I pondered how the heck I was going to get him out of there, Rex helped me out and just went back into the main tank himself! clap.gif

 

I happened to have the DIY kit readily available. This is why I sometimes keep things that I don't use right away! And put mesh on the vortech, overflow and made a new cover that does not have the gaps in it like the stock lid. It also looks better than the stock lid because it does not have the white in it.

 

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And here is Rex next to the large zoas. In a small tank he is easy to find! encouragement.png

 

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Here's a full tank shot. I also added a few LPS Jason fox JackO'lantern , Incredible hulk, and bubblegum monster chalice

I also added 2 sps Red planet and Oregon blue tort

 

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Here's a few more pictures! The fire shrimp is always front and center. I read somewhere that people prefer cleaner shrimp to fire shrimp because they tend to hang back but Carlos is pretty tame now and eats out of my hand so he's always up front because that's where the food is!

 

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I have most of the corals towards the center as there is not much par on the side. I don't have a par meter I just can tell by how the zoas were reaching up towards the center. This would be a better light for a cube. not the longer footprint of the fusion 20.

 

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These are from Golden basket but can't remember the name.

 

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Love these huge zoas. They don't have a cool designer name but they are very cool. I got them from Mattv. I think he originally got them from me as they look familiar and I got them in a trade from a guy named moto who was a zoa nut and had some really cool ones. Wish he was still around:

 

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  • 3 weeks later...

Finally got a hold of a par meter!

By comparison here is my old 150 gallon under ati t5s

 

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Here are the measurements that I got today under the LED. This was at the highest intensity of the cycle which is 40%A and 80%B

 

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