Bean's 300 Gallon AGE Build

[BeanMachine]

Man, that is one nice zoa collection. Love all the colors! I just realized you have a vllamingi--definitely one of the best tangs out there! Lately, I've been seeing unicorn tangs popping up.. did you ever consider any of those? Heard they have a lot of personality too.

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Thanks! I'm slowly going for a zoa sand bed! I pulled all from my rockwork to the let SPS do their thing. I think I'm up to 80 different ones LOL. I can double the collection for sure, and once they cover all the disks, its going to look like a rainbow field of zoa mounds.

Yeah, its a great fish. It has gotten bigger but not massive yet. I've had it probably a year and a half now? It should be good for a few more years before it may need to get rehomed. Its definitely the most voracious eater. Unicorns are really cool as well, I just went for this one as it was in another members tank for sometime and it had outgrown that system. I've got 6 tangs, so I'm pretty tapped out there. The Vlamingi, along with all my other tangs, eat bubble algae like crazy. To the point if someone gave me a frag with some on it, I wouldn't even worry about it.

Next will be some anthias and wrasses, but I'm hesitant to add fish at this point and I don't have the energy to quarantine the additions. I'd say my tank is fairly understocked for the size, but I don't change water hardly ever so I think the best bet is to take it easy on the bioload.

 

[BeanMachine]

Looking awesome Cody! Definitely and inspiration!

Thanks Greg! I've really been enjoying the tank lately. The tank has hit a nice balance. All the acros are doing well, and very colorful so I'm really happy about that.

 

[BeanMachine]

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[rorroreef]

Very nice Cody! I wish all sticks grew as fast as purple stylo

 

[BeanMachine]

Very nice Cody! I wish all sticks grew as fast as purple stylo

Yep, everything started out as small pieces, with the exception of the purple stylo and red planet. Those had a major head start. I love the purple stylo though.

 

[moondoggy4]

What is the yellow coral next to the orange flower anemone? The front right of the picture.

 

[BeanMachine]

What is the yellow coral next to the orange flower anemone? The front right of the picture.

This one? It's an OG Bounce.

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[BeanMachine]

6 weeks between photos. Starting to color up.

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[dodgerblew]

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[BeanMachine]

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[BeanMachine]

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[gofor100]

Sticks seem to be growing in nicely!

 

[BeanMachine]

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[pga7602]

Beautiful Cody!

 

[Jimbo327]

Whoa! That is so colorful and nice.

Do you like the sand bed? I really like sand because I think more fish like that, but I also can see why people go without sand. Such a dilemma. Without the sand, your zoas can grow onto the bottom of the tank.

 

[BeanMachine]

Whoa! That is so colorful and nice.

Do you like the sand bed? I really like sand because I think more fish like that, but I also can see why people go without sand. Such a dilemma. Without the sand, your zoas can grow onto the bottom of the tank.

Yes, I started the tank with bare bottom and didn't like the look after a few months. I should have used sand from the start. But to each their own on that one.

Prob with letting corals grow on the barebottom is that it makes them difficult to control / prune / frag. Some zoas will grow much faster than others and it would not be easy to scrape them from the bottom of a deep tank.

I made zoa mound rocks using Emarco purple mortar. They turned out really cool. When the frags cover the smaller disk and onto the larger disk, at that point I mount them to the mounds so they create that spherical shape that you see. Growing them on the bottom won't give you any variation in height etc so this way you get pops of color at different angles and depths. Plus you can move them around if you want to.

 

[BeanMachine]

Beautiful Cody!

Thanks Tri. I need to make another set of zoa mounds for the next zoas that get upgraded. But I have some time to do that.

 

[solitude127]

Meh. lol. j/k, you're definitely the zoa whisperer.

 

[Jimbo327]

Yes, I started the tank with bare bottom and didn't like the look after a few months. I should have used sand from the start. But to each their own on that one.

Prob with letting corals grow on the barebottom is that it makes them difficult to control / prune / frag. Some zoas will grow much faster than others and it would not be easy to scrape them from the bottom of a deep tank.

I made zoa mound rocks using Emarco purple mortar. They turned out really cool. When the frags cover the smaller disk and onto the larger disk, at that point I mount them to the mounds so they create that spherical shape that you see. Growing them on the bottom won't give you any variation in height etc so this way you get pops of color at different angles and depths. Plus you can move them around if you want to.

But I noticed that you sand looks very coarse, what grain did you use? You definitely have some great looking zoas growing.

 

[BeanMachine]

But I noticed that you sand looks very coarse, what grain did you use? You definitely have some great looking zoas growing.

It's caribsea special grade, it's what I've always used. Its not super course, but tends to not blow around as much as a finer grain sand like fiji pink or something similar in grain size.