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Wow 11 years...great job..very nice..
Gorgeous litlle tank. Happy New Year!
Every coral looks so healthy. Legendary tank.
Beautiful tank!
I need to step up my game! Once I get the frag tank up and running, half my zoas are getting kicked out for sticks LOL
Is that birdsnest the Ora ponape?
I love my zoas too. But I need more stony corals. I think it just adds a much more established look. I was looking at the ponape, birds of paradise, and some pocillipora. I’ve got a purple tip stag that’s doing well so I figure the “easier” ones would do well alsoI love Zoas!
Acropora in such a small system such as this were a pain as they were aggressive and grew too darn fast, but the 'Ponape Birdsnest' (Seriatopora dendrica) is just about the perfect SPS for a smaller nano (colorful, compact medium growth rate with small compact branches). I also have a 'Bird of Paradise' that has those amazing flowing polyps, but needs to be trimmed often if given too much light...so I keep it in a more moderately lit location.
I love my zoas too. But I need more stony corals. I think it just adds a much more established look. I was looking at the ponape, birds of paradise, and some pocillipora. I’ve got a purple tip stag that’s doing well so I figure the “easier” ones would do well also
The zoas will be only in the bottom 1/3 of the tank so the sps encrusting shouldn’t be a problem. And if they start gettin close, the zoas will get movedPocillipora are beautiful corals, but they are known to have 'polyp bailout' and little colonies can pop up all over. Sounds nice at first, but they are powerful stingers so need to be moved/removed if the new colonies settle near other corals (common occurrence in small nano tanks).
Seriatopora often look like crap for a few months when transferred to a new system, especially if the lighting spectrum is quite different. Both my frags bleached and lost over 50% of their tissue (my DIY array has a lot more white light than the LFS had under Kessils). If that happens even though the coral is under similar light intensity to where it came from, probably best to just wait it out and let the frag eventually adapt rather than constantly trying to move it to a 'better' location.
A word of caution regarding SPS encrusters around Zoas. IME, if the Zoa colony is really healthy and fast growing, it can usually resist most encrusters and shade enough to slow or halt further intrusive growth into the colony. But sometimes the encrusters just barge right in displacing the Zoa colony if the colony is not robust.
Good luck!
i was inspired by your tank and still am. awesome to follow-up on the progress.