15G Zoa tank

[sunce_22]

So over the last year, I thought it was finally time to start my own zoa tank. My other nano tanks have typically been fish only, although one does have some star polyps in there. I decided it was time to take the plunge, spend the money and start a tank just for corals.

Finally deciding on a 15 gallon tank, it was time to start putting it together. I used 20lbs of live sand, it is white with black in it as well (wanted something a little different).
Then the supplies, we got an acrylic lid custom cut for the top of the tank. It had to be acrylic because my cats have a bad habit of walking ontop of my tanks to look at them, and i didn't want them ending up inside.

We added a 50W stealth heater, I chose that one because it is black and basically shatter proof. I have used it in all of my mantis tanks and it works great, the temp never fluctuates and I love that it doesn't have a red light that turns on and off!

We are trying a new salt instead of the one I was using on my other tanks. This one is D-D H2Ocean! I have heard amazing things from the LFS so I thought I would give it try...

After a trip to the local fish store we picked up 2 peices of beautiful thick branching type rock. It weighed 18 pounds and was only 6.99 per pound!!

Will add pics later and give you update on planned live stock!!