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Getting started on my 20g long aio zoa garden build. The plan is to put in my aio wall, and have this be a zoa only grow out tank. Im going to take my favorite pieces in my frag tank and frag a few polyps off and place a different kind of zoa on each rock. I wont be housing any fish in here as im going for this tank to be as "simple" as a tank can be. the only thing i plan on housing is a fire ( Blood ) shrimp as i think theyre beautiful and will make a nice addition, yet still no need to feed the tank. ( will hand feed him some mysis few times a week here and there ) but there will be little excess is the plan. my plan will be then after im bored with with it is to sell the rocks and start over.

Equipment
skimmer -aqua c remora
return - mj1200 split into 2
light - 150w metal halide 14k phoenix
heater - most likely finnex
powerhead - nano koralia if needed but am going to try to not use.

Using fiji pink sand, roughly will place in 20 lbs of rock ( about a 15g tank for room after aio wall )

Going to be doing 5g water changes every 2 weeks. (50%) a month.

Getting started and Taping off for the silicone. go figure once i get motivated and start the gun breaks.

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Flounder said:
and fast too! He started working on this at 430am....should be done by noon!
Water in it by 3 and awesomeness by 5!
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Not when the gun breaks! Says Made in china and was $1.99. Wonder why it broke Hana. And i work nights its bed time in the morning haha. Still have to acid wash rocks etc. it it will be a few weeks. Unless salmonizer is working on it Sunday with me for his birthday hahahaha.

It will need done awesome frags from flounder to fill it up! Haha although I think I hand a frag of all you have by now. Haha
 
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I saw someone do this same thing on another forum. I think their biggest word of warning is dose a lot of vitamin C to the tank to keep all them zoas happy, unfortunately he saw a lot of his melt off unexepectadly and that's the only thing that seemed to wok for them. Can't wait to see what it looks like!!
 
Myclang said:
I saw someone do this same thing on another forum. I think their biggest word of warning is dose a lot of vitamin C to the tank to keep all them zoas happy, unfortunately he saw a lot of his melt off unexepectadly and that's the only thing that seemed to wok for them. Can't wait to see what it looks like!!
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any idea as to why that is? people have a ton of zoas in their tanks and i dont hear about dosing vitamin C.
 
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any idea as to why that is? people have a ton of zoas in their tanks and i dont hear about dosing vitamin C.
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I believe what they found is when you run a zoa/paly dominated tank, the dosing of vitamin C would help any PH crashes, also keeps any zoa colonies from getting sick. They've found out that when you have such a dominated tank when there's die off you get paly toxins, and large amounts of nitrates in the water which creates a large chain reaction die off...
 
I needed more than an mj1200 to circulate from my sump on my frag tank. I also added an mj900 and koralia mini for flow. The 900 is pitched up towards the surface directly across from the return and mini. Not sure if you will need it but wanted to provide my experience.
 
chemsol said:
I needed more than an mj1200 to circulate from my sump on my frag tank. I also added an mj900 and koralia mini for flow. The 900 is pitched up towards the surface directly across from the return and mini. Not sure if you will need it but wanted to provide my experience.
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It's no drilled will be in the tank with about 4" of head pressure do hoping the 1200 will be enough.

Hoping to have the tank siliconed this weekend, plumbing done, all equipment set in place. Acid wash some rock next weekend and get it started.
 
Good maintenance routine with regular waterchanges. Keep dissolved nutrient levels at a decent level and you will be fine.

I bought into this notion several years ago. Vitamin C gets broken down so quickly ( a matter of minutes ) in saltwater I don't really see how it can be of direct benefit to zoanthids. It's more of a carbon source for bacteria which in turn may help improve water quality but if your already focus your maintenance on keeping good water quality this shouldn't be a concern.

In the last year my zoanthids interests have grown and have got quite the collection going becuase they look so darned good under LEDs. So if I really believed this, I would be doing it. Instead, I just focus on good maintenance.

With that said, the main reason why I posting this is to PLEASE do your research and don't go out and do this just becuase you heard from someone or a thread that you should.
 
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David Grigor said:
Good maintenance routine with regular waterchanges. Keep dissolved nutrient levels at a decent level and you will be fine.

I bought into this notion several years ago. Vitamin C gets broken down so quickly ( a matter of minutes ) in saltwater I don't really see how it can be of direct benefit to zoanthids. It's more of a carbon source for bacteria which in turn may help improve water quality but if your already focus your maintenance on keeping good water quality this shouldn't be a concern.

In the last year my zoanthids interests have grown and have got quite the collection going becuase they look so darned good under LEDs. So if I really believed this, I would be doing it. Instead, I just focus on good maintenance.

With that said, the main reason why I posting this is to PLEASE do your research and don't go out and do this just becuase you heard from someone or a thread that you should.
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Thank you as always for sharing your knowledge. I plan to do some hardcore googling and see what was successful for others, but I feel 50% water changes and the remora skims the 20g well I feel like I will be ok. It was enough the last time I had it up.
 
Most things in this hobby really boil down to getting maintenance routine. Unfortunately not everyone see it quite that way and will look for shortcuts.... Okay done with my rant.


If toxins are a concern in the event of a die off........Rox carbon is a great asset. I wouldn't necessarily just run it to run it but good to have around and should ease any worries of a snowball effect that someone in that thread mentions.
 
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Thanks David.

And no just plan on keeping them on rocks. Am torn between a frag rack or 2 on corners. But I already have a frag tank so I may as well try to keep this as more of a display with a clean look.
 
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