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Zepo's Zoa Garden - 60 Gallon


Zepo.

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Welcome everyone. I wanted to get back into the hobby but didn't want to spend a fortune doing it. I search craigslist for weeks to find a good deal on a tank and hit the jackpot. I will keep a log of what i spent and how everything is working out.

 

Starting out i found the following for $100 on craigslist:

- 60 Gallon Acrylic Tank & Stand

- Aqueon 150 Watt Heater.

- 50 Lbs of Dry Rock

-Two Powerheads for mixing salt

-Canister Filter I Immediately Sold

 

Hardware

Two Par38 35 Watt Bulbs & Home Depot Sockets

Hydor USA SlimSkim Internal Skimmer (Broken on ebay fixed with super glue)

WP-20 Wavemaker

Koralia 850

 

 

Livestock

CUC From Reefcleaners

2 x Cleaner Shrimp

Paired Oc. Clowns

Fiji Damsel

6 Line Wrasse

Two Large Serpent Stars

 

Coral

Zoas: Bowsers, Blue Hornets, Rastas, Bam Bams, Eagle Eyes, RDE's, GPEs, RPE's, Green Implosion, Blueberry Fields, JF Jungle Juice, Seduction Paly, Cat's Eyes, LA Lakers, WWC Pink Sakura, Utter Chaos, Scarface, Keds Reds, Purple Hornets, WWC Twizzlers, Mamba Jamba, Armor Of God, Space Queens, Frostbite, Rainbow Sakura, Rainbow Paly, Alien Acne, Fruit Loops, Cordial Cherry, Blue Agave, Space Monsters, Armageddon II, Golden Hornets

Softies: Xenia, GSP, Toadstool, Yuma & Florida Rics, Blue Shrooms, Gum Drop Mushroom, Rhodactis Mushrooms

 

LPS: Two Hammers, Torch, Two Duncans, Two Acans, Favia, Brain, Candy Cane

 

SPS: Red Monti Cap, Meteor Shower

 

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FTS 10/5/2015:
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FTS 10/28/2015:
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Minthrax crab and six line. I like this picture.
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  • 3 weeks later...

Holy cloudy tank batman. After two weeks and stable parameters I added the cuc followed by two small oc. clowns and a cleaner shrimp. The tank turned cloudy and is starting to slightly recover. There are hundreds of tiny white pods all over the acrylic which i am just leaving alone right now. I've tried running floss and have chemi-pure elite on its way. Just cloudy

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Finally added coral. Updated first picture with pictures. Also added cost of startup hardware. Cloudy tank lasted for three weeks and i finally broke down and bought a $20 ebay uv filter. Everything was cleared up in a few days and has been great since.

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Decided to do a zoa garden and just purchased a huge pack from ebay. I am super excited and will be picking it up tomorrow. It includes:

 

Bowsers

JF Jungle Juice

Seduction Paly

Cat's Eye

LA Lakers

WWC Pink Sakura

Utter chaos

Scarface

Keds Reds

Purple Hornets

WWC Twizzlers

Mamba Jamba

Armor Of God

Space Queens

Frostbite

Rainbow Sakura

Rainbow Paly

Alien Acne

Fruit loops

Cordial Cherry

Blue Agave

Space Monsters

Armageddon II

Gum Drop Mushroom

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An ebay seller (designercorals). Its an hour drive but worth it as i got some ridiculous deals. i had to bid on individual frags but i think it worked out better for me that way. I got a two head purple hornets frag $5, a gumdrop mushroom for $20, etc.

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Oh yea. Now i just have to remove them from the plugs and see if i have enough rock to mount them to. Otherwise a few are going in the sand

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That's a pretty nice list :) interested to see how you place them, should look amazing.

 

Thanks! A lot of the nicer stuff I left on the plugs because i was too scared to take them off. I mounted most of them last night. Ill post pics today.

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