Zoagarden

[John Ford]

 

Well since I was never nominated for Brute can of the month I guess Ill give my tank another go...

 

My wife and I are still uncertain whether we are moving or not but one thing is for sure, I miss my tank! I did end up painting the old room where the tank was at and in doing so we decided to move the tank in our bump out room. This rock has been sitting in a brute can curing for a few months and is now showing signs of life. Theres a bunch of micro brittles and limpits living in it. I seeded it with pods but so far I have not seen the first one.. Im still working on the scape but Im somewhat happy with this. Im gonna sit on it for a few days and go from there. Maybe in another week ill have my sand and some fish in it (fingers crossed)

 

My equipment list so far:

 

75 gallon deep blue reefready. (hate losing all that corner space but im stuck with it for now)

29 gallon sump

DIY stand

36" 4 lamp ati Sunpower (Blue+ and Coral+ lamps)

36" XHO Reefbrite with dimmer for apex

APEX controller

   Breakout box for ato and feed mode

   Jabao apex controller

Bubble Magus curve 7 Skimmer

2- RW 15 Jabao

RIO 2300 return pump

 

still undecided on macro algea or biopellets. Im leaning towards biopellets and no macro on this build... tbd later on~

 

Hopefully ill have some better pictures soon once I start moving corals up. Im just going with Zoas, Acans,and Euphyllias. All my colonies were sold off so what I have are just clippings that have been healing in the frag tank.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 13, 2015 by John Ford

[pizzaguy]

Have you tried those rw15 in there yet. There very strong

[John Ford]

 

Have you tried those rw15 in there yet. There very strong[/quote

 

Yes sir. I have my apex controlling them between 30% and 50% so they are perfect Imo. I really need to figure out how to program my apex. I'm just using the wizard for now.

[pizzaguy]

Nice. Rockscape looks nice

[hlem]

No sand?

[John Ford]

Nice. Rockscape looks nice

Thanks. The rock doesn't have a ton of character but I think so far I'm happy with it

[John Ford]

No sand?

I will just not until I'm certain on the scape

[Scubaguy]

John, Looking forward to seeing this up and running. Let me know when you can stop by. Richie

[YHSublime]

Let me know when I can buy some zoas back

 

 

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[John Ford]

I need to get over there soon, working evenings makes it hard.

 

John, Looking forward to seeing this up and running. Let me know when you can stop by. Richie

[John Ford]

I thought you were taking a break? You have room in your office tank?

 

Let me know when I can buy some zoas back

 

 

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[John Ford]

I went ahead and stuck with the shown scape and added sand at the end of last week. I added my yellow tang and three blue chromis and I'm planning to add a yellow head jawfish and maybe a cardinal fish pair. I don't want a heavy bio load so that maybe it but we will see

[Keraxis]

Tank was much lighter then mine to move. Looking good john.  

[John Ford]

Thanks so much for helping me move it!

 

Tank was much lighter then mine to move. Looking good john.

[epleeds]

pictures....we need pictures.

[Keraxis]

Thanks so much for helping me move it!

 

Thanks for saving my butt in my tank fiasco

[John Ford]

For now there's not much more to show. I want to slowly start moving corals up soon but I'm hesitant to until I know for sure I'm not going to have a diatom or algae bloom. So far it looks like my rock did a good job cycling in my brute. I'm seeing pods all over and micro brittle stars so I know I seeded it good.

 

pictures....we need pictures.

[Keraxis]

Iam pretty sure you will be fine.  That rock has been cycling for months.  Your zoas would be fine.  I would wait on the acans.

Edited September 10, 2015 by Keraxis

[John Ford]

I went ahead and added 4 acan and 3 zoa frags and will see how it goes. Ill probably wait until next week to see how these settle in and then Ill start moving things up.

 

One thing is for sure, the T5 XHO LED combo is the real deal..

[YHSublime]

One thing is for sure, the T5 XHO LED combo is the real deal..

I've been preaching, you've just started listening! CHURCH!

 

 

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[John Ford]

So i realize the whole no pics, no proof... Im working on it~ 

 

I have added 13 acans, my Miami hurricane chalice, orange torch, lime green torch, frogspawn, two orange rhodactis mushrooms, and some zoas. They are all small frags so Ill get to watch them grow. Zoas added so far are

 

Pink Krakatoa

Deja Vu

Tyree Orange Rainbow

Mean Green

Candy Apple Orange

Armageddon II

Mandarin Orange

Frozen Frog Eyes

& Sunny Ds

 

Maybe by next weekend Ill add about 10 more depending on If I get the time. 

Edited September 12, 2015 by John Ford

[hlem]

So i realize the whole no pics, no proof... Im working on it~ 

 

I have added 13 acans, my Miami hurricane chalice, orange torch, lime green torch, frogspawn, two orange rhodactis mushrooms, and some zoas. They are all small frags so Ill get to watch them grow. Zoas added so far are

 

Pink Krakatoa

Deja Vu

Tyree Orange Rainbow

Mean Green

Candy Apple Orange

Armageddon II

Mandarin Orange

Frozen Frog Eyes

& Sunny Ds

 

Maybe by next weekend Ill add about 10 more depending on If I get the time. 

 

nice zoas.

[John Ford]

Four of those are yours

I think I'll add the rest of my collection in the next few weeks and break my frag tank down. I set that up in a hurry and don't like several things about it. Maybe I'll go without it and let this tank fill in for awhile

 

nice zoas.

[John Ford]

Updated the first post with some pictures

[Reefer_Madness]

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