The Meadow - Zoa and mushroom garden

Kadosira · Dec 21, 2022

New tank in progress!
Another 15g tall Petco tank. Currently have the crappy built in LEDs, but new light has been ordered. Trying out the NooPsyche K7 mini 60W, have it ordered and should be in within the week.

Tank is currently cycling. Brand new dry rock, CaribSea Hawaiian black sand, AquaClear50 HOB. SeaChem Ammonia Alert is in the tank as well.
Put in 1oz FritzZyme 900 Turbo start on Monday, along with a dead clownfish I got from the LFS.

Tuesday night, the first inhabitants went in: a red-legged hermit and an electric blue hermit.
Planning to add another rock or two for more zoa space. Might add a fish or two eventually but currently just planning corals.

Gumbies R Us · Dec 21, 2022

I always like the look of black sand in tanks!

Kadosira · Dec 24, 2022

Welp, change of plans lol. My partner surprised me last night with a baby pair of clowns I've been eyeing for months!

We had the water tested last night to check on the cycling (it's all good) and I wanted a Halloween hermit. I was sad to see the little clowns had been purchased but as we were going to leave he told me I was forgetting something. He had purchased them earlier in the week as a surprise! They got to come home with us finally.

They are perfect.

Kadosira · Dec 29, 2022

Zoas are ordered! First ones coming in today from low country coral boys and an order from hellfire frags coming in a week or so.

Kadosira · Jan 9, 2023

Zoas are happening! Got my Low Country Coral Boys order in. I did not receive the Hot Shots or the Blue Lagoons but got Magicians, AOIs, and a frag I couldn't identify instead. Love them but a heads up would've been nice. Also brought home some stuff from Prestige Worldwide Corals. Iron Oxides for one, not sure on all of them.

The Magicians already have three new polyps!

Ohlawd · Jan 10, 2023

Your partner sounds like 1 cool dude. Keep up the posts it is very cool to see the progression of the meadow.

Kadosira · Jan 10, 2023

Thanks! He can be sweet sometimes.

The lighting on this tank changed too. While I was waiting on the NooPsyche, we found some kessil 360we Tuna Blues for sale locally from someone so I snatched them up. I've had one on this tank and everything seems super happy, plus I love the way it looks. I have to turn it on/off and adjust it manually as it's not WiFi (yet!) but it's fine.

When the NooPsyche came in, I got it set up and played with it a bit. I was not a fan of the app and had some issues connecting to it. I did get it eventually, but it's a little funky. Plus, it wasn't as pretty of a lighting as my kessil. I decided to stick with the kessil and the other will be my backup. Or end up on another tank lol.

Kadosira · Jan 24, 2023

Latest water testing.
I test them about once a week to every two weeks at work.
Salinity is tested with a Hanna electronic reader, everything else is Salifert. We have a digital thermometer we got off Amazon that sticks to the side of the tank and constantly reads the temp with a high/low for the past 24 hrs. Stays generally between 76.2 and 76.9 °F.

Kadosira · Jan 24, 2023

More zoas are in, and a couple mushrooms. Haven't attached to the rock yet though. The new zoas were still recovering when I took the pics. Miami Vice, Circus Smerkus, Cats Eyes, Warios, Cinnamon Apples,two unnamed oones from Unique Corals.

reefchi · Jan 24, 2023

Those are some awesome fish! I been wanting some orange storm clowns! The tank looks great as well.

Kadosira · Jan 28, 2023

Thank you! I love them, such active little fish.

Finally got my Hellfire Frags order in on Thursday 1/26. Honestly, I don't know that I'd order from them again unless they had something I absolutely had to have and couldn't find elsewhere.

I waited over a month for it to be shipped with little communication. I was expecting a couple weeks as they were working on a sale and wanted to wait for shipping delays in the shipment systems due to weather and what not, but I had to remind him twice to ship my order. He had somehow "missed the orders" (I had three separate orders from the YE sale) but he'd ship the next Monday. I added a couple little things over the weekend as he uploaded more to the website and said I could. By Wednesday morning, when I had received no updates, I messaged him again and he had forgotten to ship my orders (now five total). They got sent out that day at least.

Everything arrived warm and in good condition. The water smelled funky, but maybe that's just their water. They did throw in two bonus frags, an extra little ricordea mushroom and something else, maybe a leather of some kind? So far everything is adjusting well and I'm happy with the pieces.

Ordered: zoa combo rock, two favia frags, chili lime zoas, sour patch leather coral, Firefox mushroom, lava lamp discosoma, viper goniopora, and devil's armor zoas.

Kadosira · Apr 7, 2023

So! Everything's going pretty good. Added some more corals and a red scooter blenny. She has gotten SO FAT! I feed phytoplankton daily to keep my pod population up. She was super skinny when I got her but it's getting nice and plump now. The Halle Berry zoas didn't make it unfortunately, but everything else seems to be going okay.

Gumbies R Us · Apr 7, 2023

Kadosira said:
So! Everything's going pretty good. Added some more corals and a red scooter blenny. She has gotten SO FAT! I feed phytoplankton daily to keep my pod population up. She was super skinny when I got her but it's getting nice and plump now. The Halle Berry zoas didn't make it unfortunately, but everything else seems to be going okay.

Love all the zoas you have!!! Sorry to hear the berry didn’t make it!!