XavierZ06
Active Member
Ive recently re entered the hobby after a few years off, and have began a 40 breeder tank. The tank is at the Girlfriend's house (technically her tank lol) and I do not have the ability to pay super close attention to it as I have my own tanks in the past. For this reason I am not going to do much in the way of SPS and hard corals because I cannot be there daily to test and observe and make sure everything is doing well. I have always been into Z's and P's but not extremely heavily in any of my tanks, until now. At the past local frag swap i grabbed probably 15 or so different zoas and palys and Im addicted. Everything from Purple People Eaters from Jason Fox himself to Sunny D's and Darth Mauls... I got the itch, baddddd.
My one concern is that I want to make sure i keep them as healthy as they are now, in terms of color, size, growth, skirts, everything. I am well versed in SPS corals and the like, but I have never had extremely good luck growing Zoas and Palys. They do well, but they arent near as fat and healthy (hence the title of the post) as the ones i see on here, especially the eye candy thread lol. I would like to know what I can dose, maintain levels wise, and provide for them so that they stay as plump and awesome as they look when i get them.
System is 40 breeder with 20L sump, BM NAC 3.5 skimmer, refugium, mag 9.5 return with 2x 1.5" drains and a 1" return split into two directions with locline.
Water movement is a tunze 6045 and the return pump at the moment.
Lighting is a DIY T5 and LED combo retrofit into a tek 6x39w t5. Running 1x ATI Purple plus and 1x KZ Fiji Pink as well as 12x Cree XML Neutral white (25%) and 10x Cree Xp-e Cool blue (80%) and 24x Cree Xp-e Royal Blue (80%)
Currently using Reef Crystals salt and performing a 5 gallon water change every 4 days roughly. Havent gotten any test kits yet so im not 100% sure on the levels past 0 nitrate and .03 po4 (waiting for my BRS group buy from local club)
Here are some pics, any and all advice is sincerely appreciated.
My one concern is that I want to make sure i keep them as healthy as they are now, in terms of color, size, growth, skirts, everything. I am well versed in SPS corals and the like, but I have never had extremely good luck growing Zoas and Palys. They do well, but they arent near as fat and healthy (hence the title of the post) as the ones i see on here, especially the eye candy thread lol. I would like to know what I can dose, maintain levels wise, and provide for them so that they stay as plump and awesome as they look when i get them.
System is 40 breeder with 20L sump, BM NAC 3.5 skimmer, refugium, mag 9.5 return with 2x 1.5" drains and a 1" return split into two directions with locline.
Water movement is a tunze 6045 and the return pump at the moment.
Lighting is a DIY T5 and LED combo retrofit into a tek 6x39w t5. Running 1x ATI Purple plus and 1x KZ Fiji Pink as well as 12x Cree XML Neutral white (25%) and 10x Cree Xp-e Cool blue (80%) and 24x Cree Xp-e Royal Blue (80%)
Currently using Reef Crystals salt and performing a 5 gallon water change every 4 days roughly. Havent gotten any test kits yet so im not 100% sure on the levels past 0 nitrate and .03 po4 (waiting for my BRS group buy from local club)
Here are some pics, any and all advice is sincerely appreciated.
