Showing Off

[Seafeather]

I just wanted to show off my lil zoa in my micro tank. This will be my first coral to make new polyps (at least the first I've noticed)! I'm so excited!!

On another note, anyone know which variant of zoa these are? I bought it without knowing its name.

 

[get-salty]

Happy little fella. Very cool.
Idk a lot of names for zoas unfortunately.. only the common ones.

Good luck and happy reefing

 

[Seafeather]

Happy little fella. Very cool.
Idk a lot of names for zoas unfortunately.. only the common ones.

Good luck and happy reefing

Thank you!!

 

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Nice it will be fun watching them spread across the rocks, that is a Magician Zoanthid, they have long stalks and big polyps, here is a shot of one from my 75.

 

[Seafeather]

Nice it will be fun watching them spread across the rocks, that is a Magician Zoanthid, they have long stalks and big polyps, here is a shot of one from my 75.

Ah fun!! I'll call him Dark Magician then
I'm hoping to have a whole little zoa garden in this micro tank!

 

[Baldyreef]

Ah fun!! I'll call him Dark Magician then
I'm hoping to have a whole little zoa garden in this micro tank!

what other zoas are you planning to add for the garden?

 

[get-salty]

Pico or Micro? haha

How big is the tank?

 

[Seafeather]

Ah fun!! I'll call him Dark Magician then
I'm hoping to have a whole little zoa garden in this micro tank!

what other zoas are you planning to add for the garden?

I don't have any particular in mind other than forever ago I saw an Armor of God zoa and decided that i absolutely had to have one of those. Other than that one, I'm totally open!

 

[Seafeather]

Pico or Micro? haha

How big is the tank?

Super small. 2.5ish gallons. It's on my work desk and will be a coral tank only due to its size. Maybe a couple inverts if it can handle it.

 

[Baldyreef]

I don't have any particular in mind other than forever ago I saw an Armor of God zoa and decided that i absolutely had to have one of those. Other than that one, I'm totally open!

awesome! armor of the gods add nice pattern and pop, rastas would look great with them

 

[Seafeather]

I don't have any particular in mind other than forever ago I saw an Armor of God zoa and decided that i absolutely had to have one of those. Other than that one, I'm totally open!

awesome! armor of the gods add nice pattern and pop, rastas would look great with them

Oh yes those would be nice! I definitely want all the colors. I dont care how psychedelic it gets. I need some happiness on my work desk haha

 

[get-salty]

Super small. 2.5ish gallons. It's on my work desk and will be a coral tank only due to its size. Maybe a couple inverts if it can handle it.

2.5gal okay nice.

Keep in mind, anything smaller than a 20gal with corals will take a tremendous amount of effort to keep it stable.

 

[Baldyreef]

2.5gal okay nice.

Keep in mind, anything smaller than a 20gal with corals will take a tremendous amount of effort to keep it stable.

I've kept a 5 gallon mixed reef with great success and found that a glass lid makes it so much easier as far as evaporation and salinity but nutrients is more of the numbers to watch

 

[Baldyreef]

Super small. 2.5ish gallons. It's on my work desk and will be a coral tank only due to its size. Maybe a couple inverts if it can handle it.

sexy shrimp are small nice looking and add nice movement

 

[Seafeather]

Super small. 2.5ish gallons. It's on my work desk and will be a coral tank only due to its size. Maybe a couple inverts if it can handle it.

2.5gal okay nice.

Keep in mind, anything smaller than a 20gal with corals will take a tremendous amount of effort to keep it stable.

Absolutely. Hence why im having more forgiving corals in the tank. Until i get an ATO im unfortunately having to manually replace water. And with my filter hanging on the back i cant fit the glass lid on it as of right now. The room its in is quite hot in the summer so it has no heater and ive got the top covered with saran wrap until i can cut the top to a better size. This has helped immensely with evaporation.

 

[Seafeather]

Super small. 2.5ish gallons. It's on my work desk and will be a coral tank only due to its size. Maybe a couple inverts if it can handle it.

sexy shrimp are small nice looking and add nice movement

Definitely want to have a few of those!

I also forgot about my lil mushroom coral ive got in here. A few more mushies in the tank would be cool too. They've really grown on me.

 

[Baldyreef]

Definitely want to have a few of those!

I also forgot about my lil mushroom coral ive got in here. A few more mushies in the tank would be cool too. They've really grown on me.

if you find success with them and are willing to spend more money on them rainbow yumas are beautiful

 

[Baldyreef]

Absolutely. Hence why im having more forgiving corals in the tank. Until i get an ATO im unfortunately having to manually replace water. And with my filter hanging on the back i cant fit the glass lid on it as of right now. The room its in is quite hot in the summer so it has no heater and ive got the top covered with saran wrap until i can cut the top to a better size. This has helped immensely with evaporation.

how old is the tank?

 

[Seafeather]

Maybe a month or two old right now. It's been through a few versions using the same sand/water/rock (went from something even smaller to this one, which is the max I can fit on my desk). And that yuma is gorgeous! That would be a center piece in this tank.

 

[Baldyreef]

Maybe a month or two old right now. It's been through a few versions using the same sand/water/rock (went from something even smaller to this one, which is the max I can fit on my desk). And that yuma is gorgeous! That would be a center piece in this tank.

my five gallon is almost to the year long mark and is getting broken down soon to go to a 15 but its gotten to the point in its filtration that I just feed and do occasionall waterchanges and i dont even test anymore and everything is fine I don't know if its the same for the 2.5 and its always good to test but just remember to not stress out too much on parameters as the tank ages and don't overthink and you'll be fine