2.5 gallons of greatness

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Originally Posted by dino

2.5 really are you sure lol amazing job

Thanks and yes it's only two and a half gallons! I had some great rock to pick from (took it out of my boyfriend's sump) and was able to create an over hang and a cave (can't really tell with the corals covering the rock) but here's a pic of the rock from when I first set it up

Originally Posted by Salty23

very nice setup and beautiful zoas!
how far up are you running the par38 ontop of the tank?

Thanks, I'm running the par38 about 8-10 inches above the tank. I also have a mesh screen/egg create cover over this tank to keep the bleeny in, which with the par38 helps to cut back on some of light as it is a powerful light (no dimmer) for such a small tank.

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what are those really red zoas up top under that encrusting thingie? and those are rastas down at the bottom right?

really nice polyp collection in a small tank. concentrated awesome.

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Originally Posted by mrhasan

You are well overstocked and should give away those corals before any harm is done

And your pico is awesome!

I think there's room for all to grow out nicely and thanks

Originally Posted by lastlight

what are those really red zoas up top under that encrusting thingie? and those are rastas down at the bottom right?

really nice polyp collection in a small tank. concentrated awesome.

Do you mean the ones I circled? Under the encrusting superman monti, between the sunny d's and space monsters?



this is a close up Doug got of them when the new light was first put up, as you can see they are brighter now. FYI I love my par38


Those are super awesome red/orange with a purple ring in the centre (I have no idea what they're called but I could come up with a cool name if you'd like) zoas and yes those are rasta's which are finally looking like rasta's under the better lights.

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The rasta's went from this


to this


I had actually thought that they weren't rasta's and that a mistake had been made, crazy what a difference a light can make. Although I think they still have some colouring up to do, but they're getting there and they've come a long way in a month.

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wow they were not happy at all! looking a million times better now.

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Originally Posted by lastlight

wow they were not happy at all! looking a million times better now.

Ya just a bit

I have to say love the colour I'm getting from my corals under my new halo par38 led from fragbox. March actually wants to put a pic of my nano up on their website, so I sent a few pic's to him and thought I'd start this thread since I was on a roll

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Here's a pic of the egg create cover


Good old beer can reference for size pic

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Originally Posted by lastlight

what are those really red zoas up top under that encrusting thingie? and those are rastas down at the bottom right?

really nice polyp collection in a small tank. concentrated awesome.

Originally Posted by fishoholic

Do you mean the ones I circled? Under the encrusting superman monti, between the sunny d's and space monsters?



this is a close up Doug got of them when the new light was first put up, as you can see they are brighter now. FYI I love my par38


Those are super awesome red/orange with a purple ring in the centre (I have no idea what they're called but I could come up with a cool name if you'd like) zoas and yes those are rasta's which are finally looking like rasta's under the better lights.

I think I found an id for the above zoas, I think they are Ko's nightmare

coralpedia pic

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Happy news, I was puttying in some zoas and saw my Pom Pom crab

Thankfully what I saw before was a molt and not a dead crab like I thought.

Pic I took (crappy iPhone with the lights out pic)

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New zoas I got today



I think they are darth mauls (like the pic below) or a morph of them. They were labeled as deadpool (in the store they kinda looked like them, but i had a feeling theyd look better under better lights) and under my lights they definitely look more like more like darth mauls