ZEOvit/200G Build Journal - 34G Solana

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by Boomboy

beautiful fish. i want. give it to me.

LOL...I think thats exactly how I asked for it in J&L

I was hoping they were not going to be like "Nice money, I want, give it to me" though...

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

One of the easiest fish to acclimate and literally spent NO time hiding once going into the display. He went straight to exploring and mingling with the other fish. Didn't expect any aggression and not even the slightest bad look towards him from the other fish. But can you blame them??? He looks so bad a$$! I wouldn't mess with a fish like that. He is a perfect size for the tank I think too. Just a bit smaller than the Hippo, exact same size as the Naso and Rabbitfish. His colors make my corals look dull!

Going to need to upgrade real soon though now. Probably this year...

That reminds me. I was at my parents yesterday and went to the basement to see my 240. I freaked. I have yet to ever fill the thing up except for a leak test and its scratched! I questioned my mom and apparently a few boxes were beside it. Jeez...boxes scratched the tank? No way I want to deal with acrylic I don't think. So that one is out. My stepdad is most likely going to buy it for his rays and Arowanas. I also have a 180 in their basement but I hate 180's. Just aesthetically. I prefer shallow and long tanks. The 240 is the same as the 180 in height but because its 8' long, it looks way shorter.

I am going to try to get a 72" or 84" x 30" wide and 18" tall tank built.

Actually I will get the glass cut and have my step dad build it with me.

Anyone know a good place for big pieces of glass?

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Added some new sand the other day...ewwww!

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Couple more corals I want to keep track of.

This one came to me in a trade very brown and dead on one side. The dead side is living again and the color is VERY slowly coming back. Looks like it may end up purple? What do you think? I have a feeling its going to be nice...



This is a large Long Tentacle Plate that seems to be happy. Not a great pic though, its much brighter in person. Its the only LPS I have in the tank so interesting to see how it responds to ZEOvit.



What about me?!? I was trying to get a good shot of my clowns in the mushrooms they are hosting but everytime I get the camera out, the big boys crowd around. I liked this one though...

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

And the real problem child of the tank. This Horn coral came to me very bright and has faded the past few months. It used to be bright green!

Any ideas? Someone told me I had it under too much light. It was directly under one of the 400 watt halides. I have since moved it. We'll see.

[BCOrchidGuy]

Thinking of the Zeo system but it sounds like to much work to me. The rocks need to be cleaned twice a day is that correct? I understand the 3 hours on 3 hours off part, for aerobic and anaerobic bacteria... easy peasy right?? Once things are established how often should you take measurments of everyting??? I'm trying to face up to the reality of how I do things and I don't want to get in over my head.

Douglas

[Delphinus]

It's really not that bad Doug. I had the same hesitations (note - I don't currently run Zeovit, but the reason isn't that it was too much work - and I plan for my new tank to be Zeovit from day 1, whenever it gets water in it that is). But anyhow, you feed your fish everyday right? You at least check on them once a day. Now add to that routine a couple pumps on a reactor handle (and .. it sounds silly but it's kind of fun) and maybe a little drip drip here or a drip drip there with some additives, and hey presto, you're done.

[FlamesFan]

Originally Posted by BCOrchidGuy

Thinking of the Zeo system but it sounds like to much work to me. The rocks need to be cleaned twice a day is that correct? I understand the 3 hours on 3 hours off part, for aerobic and anaerobic bacteria... easy peasy right?? Once things are established how often should you take measurments of everyting??? I'm trying to face up to the reality of how I do things and I don't want to get in over my head.

Douglas

No the rocks do not need to be cleaned daily. You simply aggitate them by pumping a handle up and down on the reactor once a day.

Also, a reactor is prefered but not required. Many people passively run the zeovit in a bag in their sump. Which is also agitated manually once a day.