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4/22-10/20 Zoa Challenge Updates and Results


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Please excuse the lousy photo! I ended up with 2.5 adult polyps and 2 tiny buds that haven’t opened yet! Very fun contest, would join again!

 

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Corbin’s pms are full. I did message through tapatalk but idk if it’ll work as well.

 

 

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Unfortunately I don’t think I’m going to get ahold of him before the meeting.

 

 

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Smh254 is the winner with 11 polyps total! Theres probably been a 12th Polyp grown between the picture and now!! They won an sps frag from dpasser, Designer zoa pack from Seth Solomon, a frag from my tank, and a $50 gift certificate to Pacific east!!

 

 

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Hi all Shawn here. First off I want to thank Mari for doing this. I didn't really do this for the prizes just for the challenge. If you guys want you can surprise me with the frag but I would not be disappointed if you didn't. My thanks are pretty full. I think there were a couple factors to the fast growth. The main one being the T5s. The other thing I didn't mention before is this Tank is 4 years old much older than most if not all of yours. I want to thank everyone else for participating I had a really fun time doing this. i'll be getting to the meeting today around 1-2. I'll be wearing a REEF2REEF T-shirt come say hi.

 

 

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Sorry havnt been on the forum and just realized what day it was, my apologies. I also don’t have a picture because I’m out of town and I’m having a zoa issue in my tank:( something is just slowly picking away at my zoas. And they just recently got ahold of my contest one:/ so I went from 2-0 yay. Seems like we already have a definite winner though lol. Wish I could be there today.

 

 

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Mari, great contest. would love to do this again if anyone is up for it.  As long as the polyp is high end like this last one I am in. I met the winner at the meeting yesterday when I gave him his frag, great guy. 

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Lol I’d have to find a meet up place. The Bethesda meeting was perfect because it had 6 month between that meetings at that location and is an ok spot for both VA and MD reefers. Also we’d need a high end polyp that people don’t have already. Keep your eyes out for one! If you guys have any critiques please let me know. I know I wasn’t on top of monthly picture reminders so I was a bit lax on that. Also lost contact with Corbin. Don’t think he’s on the forums much. Thank you guys so much it was a pleasure!

 

 

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Mari, great contest. would love to do this again if anyone is up for it. As long as the polyp is high end like this last one I am in. I met the winner at the meeting yesterday when I gave him his frag, great guy.

It was nice meting u to. I had a fun time doing this and would love to do it again. I'll keep look out for good Zoas so we can do again.

 

 

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Here is what I had yesterday when I tested.

Alk 7.224

Ca 420

Mg 1370

Po4 .04

No3 3

All very close to where I started.

 

 

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On Friday night. 

 

 

ALK 10 

Mag 1300

what about your No3? I get the feeling that has some to do with it too. Just a theory based of some things I've read.

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I test my ALK 2x a week and Mag 1x week. Those are my 2 big parameters for my system. I only test Po and No 1-2 yr unless something is off, Also my PH is 8.1 and Cond is 35.5 I run a calc reactor and carbon in a media reactor. I have 900 gal's and 15 fish. I don't feed my corals and have 2 fuges. I do feed my nems and a few specific corals 1 small piece of calamari per week, Fish are fed 50% meat 50% veggie pellets 2x day 1 time per week I feed the a bit of nori and something else like mysis or brine shrimp cube thawed.  If something is off like algae or something I will test everything. My system is pretty stable at this point. 

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Those meetings are in oakton and Vienna which might be inconvenient for people that were in this past contest. I usually plan to not go to these meetings.

 

 

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