BeefOrChicken's_Zenith System3 - 25g Mixed Reef

[beefORchicken]

We thought we would share some new pics of our tank after our recent win of potm. Enjoy!










the last pic we used a diffraction grating lens (looks like those paper 3d lenses) it shows off the colour spectrum, to some degree. Very cool in person.

[beefORchicken]

We just recently found out that our pair of clowns laid eggs inside our torch. I quickly snapped some pics to show the progression of their development. They haven't hatched yet but I predict any night now.

Here is daddy at day 1

Giving a cleaning - very cool to see them take care of the eggs

Daddy with the eggs at day 7 - you can just see their eyes

[subman]

Wow amazing pictures! Good luck with the babies.

[beefORchicken]

Originally Posted by subman

Wow amazing pictures! Good luck with the babies.

Thanks! i wish we had better cameras, these were all taken with cell phones. I'm not really sure if the babies will survive. I don't have the space to start up a 10g and live food to raise the young. I'd like to, but maybe later, the pair will probably continuously lay eggs from now on.

[beefORchicken]

So our first batch of clown eggs hatched a few days ago. I didn't think that any would survive but i did see one baby clown 3 days after hatching. So maybe there is a slim possibility that a fish might survive. Our system is skimmerless so maybe there is something in the water that the little guys can feed on.
Just last night the clowns spawned again, so basically 4-5 days after the first batch hatched. Of course this time there are many more eggs. I am really curious to see if we will have something survive eventually (if they keep laying eggs at this rate).

[beefORchicken]

we added a new fish to our tank, a tailspot blenny. He's been a great addition, he currently eats film algae on the glass, and more importantly he eats annoying macro algae including derbesia.

Here's a view from space command:

[beefORchicken]

We have had no moonlight on this tank for a long time now and with no way to see the tank at night my bro and i decided to diy one. we put together two light fixtures to go on either side of the tank. they are hidden inside the tv chambers, we used one white, one blue, and 5 uv leds per side. they run at around .25w total (all 14 leds). we decided to try out uv leds in the fixture for fun and after seeing what kind of pop they had we needed to balance everything out, so there are 2 knobs to control 2 channels, one channel is the white and blue, the other is the uv channel. this way we can see things pop whenever we want by cranking up one channel while being able to do night viewing by turning up the white blue channel. at night we have the moonlight very very dim.

with many new led fixtures on the market featuring uv we wanted to see for ourselves what they looked like. i'd have to say that uv is INSANE. things that didn't pop under actinic now do, and things that popped like crazy under actinic pretty much look lame in comparison to the kind of pop under uv one problem is that its really hard to photograph, so you'll have to take my word for it

moonlight fixture


2 channel moonlight controller


cotton candy chalice under direct uv