Neal's Zoa/Paly Pics...

[Pallobi]

so im kinda bored, lol, and since i removed some of my sps tonite, i figured i would make a quick stocklist... i also put a couple more zoas, and even the miami hurricane chalice on larger 6x6" tiles...

i now have only 9 sps mounted on my columns... all acros...

ora cali blue tort
tyree pink lemonade
atl limeade
ora red planet
ora pearlberry
green slimer
purple lokani
icefire echinata
strawberry shortcake

i also have a couple nice ora joe the coral and green highlighter small colonies, on my frag rack, i fragged off the larger colonies i had previously grown out... these will be my first "2nd generation" peices sorta speak, that i will grow...

the following are my zoas and paly's... the first group are all growing and doing very well, regardless of number of polyps, whether there is only 1, or over 250...

rastas
red hornets
purple hornets
orange bam bams
candy apple reds
my clementines
purple people eaters
red people eaters
rose nebulas
tubbs blues
sunny d's
captain america

the following are still coloring and/or shaping up, and coming along, but in my opinion, they jus are not to their potential...

xmen
pink elephants
darth mauls
whammin watermelons


and i also have the two chalices... miami hurricane and a tyree red watermelon...

with my downsized yet again sps collection, i now have 6 free spots amongst my 33 designated platforms... they will be used for a couple more zoas, couple more chalices, and a couple favias as i would like to give them a shot too...

im pretty excited to have some more room... i went from over 30 sps peices, to less than 10, and im actually quite pleased about that decision... i think the ones i chose to keep, are quite nice, and starting over with a few, will allow them to grow out nice again i think... going with more zoas and a couple more encrusting lps is gonna take a little time to fill out, but its gonna look real good i think, and with good balance...

also, now with less sps, i am gonna drop my daily dosing of two part to about 5 mLs for alk, and test daily, and pin point my usage after a couple more weeks before i hook up my dosers... i wana know how much im using when things settle down, before i start an automated dosing system...

 

[Salinity01]

Looks good. My zoas grow but not that fast. Wish i could speed things up a bit.

 

[tlsrcs]

i love your zoa/paly pyramids! where do you get the tile from? i think i may want to try this idea in my new frag tank

 

[Pallobi]

a little video of my sunny d's in some flow... and a couple appearances of my fish

a short 1 min video for fun...

 

[Pallobi]

my clementine zoas coming along nicely...

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and some blue zoas i got about two months back... some really long skirts on these... kinda wierd, but they are doin well...

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and yet another crappy but new pic of my red hornets...

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and the same with my rastas...

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[dnLEDman]

very unique set up, where is the biological filtration?

 

[Pallobi]

very unique set up, where is the biological filtration?

the tiles, once established, act as the live rock... that is the only bio-filtration i use...

 

[kevin32]

Is it me or does your Bam Bam Orange looks like Blond Blue Eye B^$%^?

You have one of the sickest zoa collection I have seen. In term of size and colony... Sick Bro!


-How big is your tank and how many powerhead do you have?

 

[Pallobi]

Is it me or does your Bam Bam Orange looks like Blond Blue Eye B^$%^?

You have one of the sickest zoa collection I have seen. In term of size and colony... Sick Bro!


-How big is your tank and how many powerhead do you have?

they are definately not blond blue eyes... they may not even be bam bams, but thats the closest thing i can identify them to...

as far as the sickest zoa collection, its with our friend in this link... this is my inspiration mixed with my own method of display...

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1896006&page=15

i have a deep blue shallow breeder style 80 gallon display... its 48" x 24" x 17" tall... i want a bigger display all around... 66" x 28" x 20" is my goal... im not gonna upgrade until i can afford that unless something jus falls in my lap sorta speak... anyhow, i use 2 mp40's... mounted on the back wall and evenly spaced, about 4" from the water surface... alot of flow in my tank, not all zoas/palys do well... some cant handle it and melt, or are passed along to someone with better conditions for them...

i'll be adding a few more zoa types soon

would really like some miami vice to name one...

 

[kevin32]

they are definately not blond blue eyes... they may not even be bam bams, but thats the closest thing i can identify them to...

as far as the sickest zoa collection, its with our friend in this link... this is my inspiration mixed with my own method of display...

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1896006&page=15

i have a deep blue shallow breeder style 80 gallon display... its 48" x 24" x 17" tall... i want a bigger display all around... 66" x 28" x 20" is my goal... im not gonna upgrade until i can afford that unless something jus falls in my lap sorta speak... anyhow, i use 2 mp40's... mounted on the back wall and evenly spaced, about 4" from the water surface... alot of flow in my tank, not all zoas/palys do well... some cant handle it and melt, or are passed along to someone with better conditions for them...

i'll be adding a few more zoa types soon

would really like some miami vice to name one...

Thank for the response. Your zoa collection is amazing. Your friend has some sick stuff too.


BTW, how many hours do you keep your lights on? What bulbs do you use?

 

[Capcept]

nice!

 

[Crazyzoas916]

Where do u get the tile from?

 

[Pallobi]

rastas...

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and with the auto enhance on my iphone... i did some playing around with it tonite with some top downs and seeing what the auto enhance did... its jus a one touch thing, i dont really like it, cuz it saturates too much, but i did some pics with it...

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[Pallobi]

red hornets... AGAIN, I KNOW THEY ARE SATURATED, i was jus playing around... i normally dont like edited pics aside from maybe cropping...

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candy apple reds...

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bam bam orange...

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xmen...

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sunny d's...

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red people eaters...

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rose nebulas...

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[Pallobi]

Thank for the response. Your zoa collection is amazing. Your friend has some sick stuff too.


BTW, how many hours do you keep your lights on? What bulbs do you use?

dont know them personally, jus follow their awesome system

and thank you again...

i use ATI bulbs, i have 4 blue plus' that come on at 10am and go until 8pm... and i have 2 more blue plus' and 2 aquablue special that run from noon to 6pm...

 

[Pallobi]

Where do u get the tile from?

its all natural tumbled stone tiles from Home Depot... they dont have this style at lowe's at all...

 

[Pallobi]

nice!

thank you :beer:

 

[kevin32]

dont know them personally, jus follow their awesome system

and thank you again...

i use ATI bulbs, i have 4 blue plus' that come on at 10am and go until 8pm... and i have 2 more blue plus' and 2 aquablue special that run from noon to 6pm...

Just curious.. how often do you change your bulbs?

 

[Pallobi]

Just curious.. how often do you change your bulbs?

Every 10 months or so... However, my next purchase is a PAR meter, so my current bulbs may go longer if they indicate through readings that they are still putting out proper PAR at that time...

 

[kevin32]

Every 10 months or so... However, my next purchase is a PAR meter, so my current bulbs may go longer if they indicate through readings that they are still putting out proper PAR at that time...

Wow how does the par meter work? Are they expensive?