Brock Fluharty
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I have a 20 gallon high that will be sitting empty very soon, and I want to turn it into a frag tank. To start with, I just want everyone to know that this is not for profit. I hate it that people sell named zoas for in the upwards of $10s / polyp. That is why I am going to start with the few zoa colonies I already have, and get some frags from them. Once the frags grow out (in a month or two hopefully) I will trade them for different types of zoas, or other types of corals. I will continue this until I have a good selection, then I will start selling them. No matter what color, size, name, whatever, all of my zoas will be $3.00/polyp. I cannot do this with other corals that do not grow in the "polyp" form. I do have a few ?s though.
For lights, I am going to TRY LOA lights. I know that these have bene used for macro, etc., but I have never seen them used for low(er) light corals, such as softies, zoas, etc. These lights are cheap, and are supposed to put out more light than the watts they use, if that makes sense...I will try these lights out on macros, then softies, then zoas, then LPS, then SPS, and see which ones will "thrive" under them.
I am not goingto use a skimmer right away, but I probably will later on. I currently have...orange with blue center zoas, yellow polyps, green with brown skirt zoas, lavender with red ring around mouth, and some other smaller frags. I'm not gonna list macro, as I have a lot of different kinds. I'm also going to have a few peppermint shrimp in the tank, so that they can hopefully breed, and the palys, or zoas can eat the fry.
The frags will be placed on eggcrate racks. There will be about 4 shelves that can be utilized for placement of the corals. If these lights turn out to be extremely bright, then the softies will go on the bottom rack, and (if possible) SPS on the top.
It will be BB, with 1, maybe 2 powerheads (probably Maxi-Jets) to keep the flow up. I'm going to paint the back, sides, and bottom blue, or white. I like the look of blue, but I would think that light would reflect better off of white than blue.
Now I just need to find someone who sells frag plugs made of acrylic, or plastic.
Brock
For lights, I am going to TRY LOA lights. I know that these have bene used for macro, etc., but I have never seen them used for low(er) light corals, such as softies, zoas, etc. These lights are cheap, and are supposed to put out more light than the watts they use, if that makes sense...I will try these lights out on macros, then softies, then zoas, then LPS, then SPS, and see which ones will "thrive" under them.
I am not goingto use a skimmer right away, but I probably will later on. I currently have...orange with blue center zoas, yellow polyps, green with brown skirt zoas, lavender with red ring around mouth, and some other smaller frags. I'm not gonna list macro, as I have a lot of different kinds. I'm also going to have a few peppermint shrimp in the tank, so that they can hopefully breed, and the palys, or zoas can eat the fry.
The frags will be placed on eggcrate racks. There will be about 4 shelves that can be utilized for placement of the corals. If these lights turn out to be extremely bright, then the softies will go on the bottom rack, and (if possible) SPS on the top.
It will be BB, with 1, maybe 2 powerheads (probably Maxi-Jets) to keep the flow up. I'm going to paint the back, sides, and bottom blue, or white. I like the look of blue, but I would think that light would reflect better off of white than blue.
Now I just need to find someone who sells frag plugs made of acrylic, or plastic.
Brock
Apparently though, deforestation is an even bigger problem in some places, because the rivers running into the ocean are becoming silty, and they are covering the corals, which deprives them of light. They slowly starve...the film did sya that several reefs are making a comeback, thanks to awareness, and especially in Fiji, them teaching the children ethics of the ocean. E.G., not to overfish, respect the reefs, etc.
