165g Zoanthid Dominated Reef- Upgrade fast approaching. PHOTOS

[The Grizz]

Similar is good to. I cant even imagine fraging anything in my tank for fear of it not recovering. What you have fraged already is truly amazing to me.

[Zoaelite]

New FTS of the zoas. Really liking them in there own dedicated system, they seem to be enjoying it so so far so good.

[Lance]

I don't know if I missed it in your thread but are all the zoas in this tank now or did you leave a few in the other tank?

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by Lance

I don't know if I missed it in your thread but are all the zoas in this tank now or did you leave a few in the other tank?

Dipped and moved every colony to the new tank. This way I also eliminate the possibility of the tangs eating them. Apparently it happens pretty often.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by zoaElite

Dipped and moved every colony to the new tank. This way I also eliminate the possibility of the tangs eating them. Apparently it happens pretty often.

Yeah, zoas are like candy to many fishes and inverts. I had a few frags of zoas I bought from OA and had them in the frag tank for a few days. Overnight something ate all of one frag and most of the other two. I searched the tank and found a hermit I didn't know was in there. I guess he was hungry!
Both tanks look great by the way.

[Zoaelite]

Few updates:

Tank is running smoothly, the zoa tank is going through a bit of an algae cycle (Lots of hair algae and a bit of cyano). I finally decided on rock rubble for the zoa tank substrate, really happy with how it looks and should help with growing them out. Waiting on a colony of blue hornets and some nicer zoas from Bayside, will post photos when they come in.

So far the zoa tank has a tail spot blenny, a radiance wrasse and my 4 baby bangii's (Once they are grown they will go to a new home) but I can't decide If I want anything else. Anyone have experience with Orchid Dotty backs or Neon Dotty backs, looking to add a little color so suggestions are welcome.

The main tank is doing well, very happy with the doser results as It seems I have had a bit of a growth spurt in the last month. I'm really enjoying the open sand bed with the zoas being in there own tank, it makes the tank look much more open. I followed Kien's advice and have purchased another cleaner and pair of fire shrimp to boost my live food count, never knew that fire shrimp also cleaned but now I have a whole cleaner station going on with all the fish regularly partaking.

Will grab photos tonight If I can steal the camera from Devan.

[lobsterboy]

that special zoa system is pretty cool.