Zoo Garden - 70G - 24" x 26" x 24"

[Kataro]

Just wanted to share a new build with you guys (been set up for exactly 1 week now). Bought it as a macro planted from a fellow reefer

Tank is 24"x26"x24", currently running sumpless until I get a pump / 10g sump to toss under there.

Plan for this tank so far is just macroalgae / seagrass / zoanthid dominated. Maybe some Ricordea in the future.

Fish will either be a breeding pair of Cardinal and smaller fish, or a ton of gobies like my 150G macroalgae tank.

Setting it up - (Please excuse the images, took these with my phone.. better ones to come later!)

(Today)

Zoas from Carlos

I need to get some more mangroves, some of them start dropping their leaves.. I'm attributing this to them being uprooted and move, hopefully it will bounce back and I can have a lush mangroves forest in my tank

 

[Kataro]

Still getting use to Aquarium Photography... Please excuse the actinic shot

I'm not used to zoas name (too many :angryfire

If anybody got advice on taking better zoanthid pics, feel free to offer your input!

Never seen this macro before, excited to see how it grows

Tunicate (supposedly do well in Aquaria)

 

[Kataro]

A few more attempted @ blue lighting shot

 

[Ckyuv]

Awesome looking set up, what kinda light are you running?

 

[Kataro]

Thank you all! I just received some seagrass today, going to try and plant it.

Goal is to have small colonies of zoa growing withing the seagrass bed.

Will be trying to get some more pictures up / colonies of zoa in

 

[Kataro]

Just bought this one, coming next week!

 

[terrypercula]

Just bought this one, coming next week!

Those are wild!

 

[Kataro]

Some new pictures from tonight! I need to get a macro lense

Some of the Zoanthids!

Pandoras

Red People Eater (I think)

Rasta

LA Laker

Miami Vice

 

[Kataro]

Laser Lemon

Red Hornet?

Some Neon Orange zoa, this thing is amazingly bright under blue LED!

Joker

That Tunicate from 2 weeks ago spread like wild fire!

Algae / Seagrass

This is coming this week also =D

 

[Kataro]

Forgot this last zoa! Looks like pink elephant maybe? got 5 more polyps of it on the frag with 3 neon orange zoas

 

[Kataro]

Daily zoa pic

This one need to open up more

No ID for both

 

[dviper150]

first one its hard to tell. Second one looks like moondust fairies.

 

[Kataro]

Some new zoas for the day!

(Only 5 PE are shown.. the 6th one isn't cooperating)

Still looking to see if there's an ID on this fella

 

[Kataro]

Some new Zoas today... and some from yesterday that opens up more

This one is bright!

Blue Rhino

RDPE

Blue Agave opened

Frags anybody? :beer::beer:

 

[Ranlexus]

tank is bad ***.
not sure if you seen my build but I just started as well
I plan on having a ton of zoas as well. lol
good luck with everything.

 

[frostyjay1]

some super sexiness there

 

[bdcampbell3623]

Very nice mate I have some treehouse of horror zoanthids if your interested hit me up bdcampbell3623@aol.com

 

[NyReefNoob]

down the road you will regret have all those algea's in there, eventually they will take off and growth and start to block light for the zoa's

 

[Kataro]

down the road you will regret have all those algea's in there, eventually they will take off and growth and start to block light for the zoa's

Oh don't worry, I'm currently building a 4'x2'x1' frag tank for all the Zoa. Should allow me to keep plenty in there!

I will still keep zoa in this tank.. My main idea is to replicate what I saw when I went diving back in Asia and Europe, corals living together with macroalgae. I will be keeping it pruned also, so no worries there. I'm currently having it set up to the point where algae will only grow in a certain direction / area of the tank, as not to obscure the light from the corals.

 

[Bucknuter]

Is the PVC pipe sitting in the middle of the tank coming out of the sand a return pump??