My Zoa Garden

[slin1977]

Hi to all you zoa lovers, I thought I would share with you my magic zoa garden. This place brings me a lot of joy and has been a wish of mine to create.
Here in Australia we cant get all the fancy zoas you enjoy.(I cant really be bothered chasing down Ultras of anything , same goes for my fishlist.
Enjoy the pics!

My tank at 11/07/22

My tank at 12/10/15

FTS

 

[A. Grandis]

You guys are very blessed to be able to collect and/or purchase those nice stony corals!!!
Nice zoas as well!!
Please tell us your maintenance schedule, additives, temp, water params and if you feed your polyps, please...
How long do you have the LEDs on the tank? How do you like them?
:thumbsup:

Grandis.

 

[slin1977]

Double post please remove, thanks Mods

 

[slin1977]

Double post
Mods please clean up , sorry

 

[Lilmatty5dimes]

That looks great. Very nice collection. Are you dosing anything?

 

[slin1977]

Thanks for the kind words Grandis and Lillmatty5dimes.
I use a calcium reactor and KZ Zeovit method.
Brightwell products also get added to the tank.
I used Illumagic LED on my previous tank for 18 months being a very early adopter of LED lighting and upgraded to two units for this tank.

 

[black hills tj]

Very pretty. What's your favorite zoa that you keep?

 

[petet1234]

Very nice

 

[cody6766]

That's a fantastic tank. I would add a think layer of sand and it would be perfect for me. In fact, I think I'm going to copy your idea on my next set up. Consider yourself plagiarized.

 

[slin1977]

That's a fantastic tank. I would add a think layer of sand and it would be perfect for me. In fact, I think I'm going to copy your idea on my next set up. Consider yourself plagiarized.

Let me add some photos of my build for you

 

[slin1977]

Very pretty. What's your favorite zoa that you keep?

Currently think my Red People eaters are hot, I have found a green paly that I like too. I guess beauty is often in the eye of the beholder.

 

[cody6766]

Let me add some photos of my build for you

Please do. I may be replacing my 14g BioCube with my 30g Oceanic Cube, and if I do I would definitely like to see how you got your rock set up built.

 

[slin1977]

Cody6766 I went past my LFS today and picked up two bags of Caribsea Aragalive Black gravel. This tank was bare bottom since the build.

 

[slin1977]

I built the sump , tank and stand by myself.

 

[A. Grandis]

I built the sump , tank and stand by myself.

Way to go! Good clean job.

Grandis.

 

[slin1977]

I cooked the rocks in a solution of muratic acid, this really helped lower my phosphate levels.

I used this to permanently cement my rock structure in place.

 

[slin1977]

The big fill- notice how the rock structure is raised off the glass bottom.

 

[slin1977]

Why not throw in a teaser pic....

 

[Cmbtmedic1]

Nice.

 

[A. Grandis]

I've got a similar plan for my next setup, but I'll use PVC to lift some of the rocks and no or very little sand. Berlin type.
Nice coral!!!

Where can we buy that glue?

Grandis.