Lion's Coral Den! Rics, Zoas, Palys!, Ric and Zoa/Paly lover!

[StephLionfish]

Gorgeous tank! I feel you on the snails... I hate gluing my corals down, cause I always like to move them somewhere else to keep things interesting. Hard to do when you have snails and a pistol shrimp that steals!

 

[ange062]

That's a retarded collection of zoas!! I seriously need to start collecting more! Now if only I could find the room....

 

[kylebeano]

cant wiat to see this tank all grown in, its going to look magnificent! now get those corals glued down!

 

[buddythelion]

That's a retarded collection of zoas!! I seriously need to start collecting more! Now if only I could find the room....

Bahaha thanks man. It's only starting.
And come on man, you got a 28. I got a 12!

But I do feel that my tank is too.. polypy. I need some variation. I want a gold torch but there's no way I'd add a euphyllia. Too afraid the tentacles would kill my other corals.

 

[buddythelion]

cant wiat to see this tank all grown in, its going to look magnificent! now get those corals glued down!

How do I glue them down without making it look ughleeehhss and while it's still in the water?

 

[buddythelion]

Looked at the tank this morning while lights were still out and saw this:

Not too sure what's she's doing so far from home... But I don't like it. Sure hope she's not real estate shopping...

Day 3 of the rubber banding:
Looking good! Almost finished. Needed a thinner rubberband but couldn't find one, so I just rubberbanded a bigger rock onto it to stretch out the already used rubberband and to increase the pressure to help him split.

You can see that the rubber band already went through. Just waiting for it to heal (see two smaller happy polyps!) Sorry for the bad pics, camera decided that the polyps were prettier and deserved more focus.

Exciting update:
Just a few more days until my special item comes...

 

[thienlong88]

I love the idea of creating a Ric Island. Your corals are really colorful and beautiful looking.

 

[jcerdena]

Love your setup! Are you feeding your zoas & palys? If so, what are you feeding them?

 

[buddythelion]

I love the idea of creating a Ric Island. Your corals are really colorful and beautiful looking.

Thanks! Should have seen my old scape....

RICORDEA MOUNTAIN!

Love your setup! Are you feeding your zoas & palys? If so, what are you feeding them?

I feed my palys mysis shrimp. Basically by palys I only mean my pink and gold galaxies. (lol) They are PIGS. I feed them only when I have left over mysis from feeding my tank fish and rics. They ALWAYS eat. Even the fragged ones were eating today. I get tweezers and place a shrimp on each one. My nightcrawlers and Armor of Gods used to eat, but now that they're higher up they seem to have no incentive to. I feed mostly for fun. Heard I should try Rod's food though.

 

[buddythelion]

Also found a good picture of one of my zoas. It's an older picture, but shows its metallic sheen:

Metallic Caribbean Zoas:

Purchased from Coral Morphologic, they are one of those finickier Caribbean morphs. It started off almost covering the majority of the stick it came on (which is actually wood on the inside. Huh.) but then slowly started melting when I wasn't reefing as seriously. But luckily this was a separate colony and the melting didn't affect them. Grown about 3-4 heads since I got them.

 

[buddythelion]

:celeb2:

 

[buddythelion]

Tried to move the rock with the pink and golds. I thought it was an independent rock not holding the other rocks up. I was wrong... *sigh* Will rescape to what I like when I have time tomorrow...

 

[buddythelion]

Cute Puppy:

 

[buddythelion]

Frags frags frags! I need me a better cutting utensil!

Fragging is so much fun! Hahaha.

 

[lljdma06]

Hey! I know you!

It's a lovely tank in this forum too.

L

 

[buddythelion]

ALRIGHT GUYS, BIG BIG BIG UPDATE!!!!

GOT SOME REALLY COOL NEW ADDITIONS...

PAIR OF DONI CLOWNS!!!! <3333

I'll let the pics do the talking. Goes from unwrapping to them going into the tank!

 

[buddythelion]

Picasso 1, left side:

right side:

Picasso 2 right side:

Left:

 

[buddythelion]

Now to finish off with a vid of them being released with Poseidon!

 

[buddythelion]

Paradise Zoas from Mr Coral:
Here's the Paradise Zoa I got off ebay for $4.99 from Mr. Coral. Was worried at first after reading some of his reviews, but they came in really nicely and are starting to open up:

 

[buddythelion]

Paradise Zoas are open!

About the size of a baby zoanthus when open. Not THAT tiny, but relatively small. Pretty sweet for $4.99 on ebay!