100 Gallons Sea Reef

[benjamin81]

Today marks my 2 year old tank in the making from a 1.5 ft cube to a 4 ft tank..

Still remembered the day when it first arrived...

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The space, the tank, the sump , the cabinet and the finished product....

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From there, the journey begins till now...

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A shot of the sump.. Pardon the messy wiring..

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Most of my Livestocks have been with me since the start of the build..

These includes:

* Yellow Tang

* Blue Tang

* Unicorn tang

* Blond Naso Tang

* Magnificent Foxface

* Fiji Bicolor Foxface

* Two Barred Rabbitfish

* Copperband Butterfly

* 3 X Black clown fishes

* Flame Hawk

* Malenurus Wrasse

* Square Anthias

* Banggai Cardinals

* Blue eye Cardinals

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Cleanup Crews for my tank includes:

* Asterea Snails

* Turbo Snails

* Magarita Snails

* Nassarius Snails

* Cerith Snails

* Strombus Conch

* Abalones

* Urchins

* Sea Cucumber

* Hermit Crabs

* Cleaner Shrimps

* Fire Shrimps

* Peppermint Shrimps

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Personally, I am a mixed reef person.. That's why I have all sorts of stuffs in my tank, from LPS to SPS.

Some random shots...

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But lately, I am in to having more Zoas and SPS!!!

I know right.. Welcome to the dark side!!!!

Some SPS have been with me for a quite some time, while some are new. Personally for myself, I would go for frags rather than colonies as I can feel the satisfaction of watching them grow in my tank..

Those that have grown....

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Newer ones..

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And of course ZOAS...

Some of my collections...

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My two large colonies of Captain America Zoas.. And it all start from a single polyp!!!!!!

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That's it for tonight.. Will post more of my collections later.. Good night everyone..

[shy88devil]

Nice tank ! Any tips for growing zoas ??

[Admiraltian]

Nice collection of corals.

[SubzeroLT]

Nice tank size and collection of corals.

Any other dosing regime?

[POTO]

Nice mix reef tank bro.

[ReDDeviLs]

your zoas are impressive bro!

must be feeling very good growing them from a small frag to a huge colony!

[benjamin81]

Good morning everyone..

Thank you all for the kind words.

Personally I feed my corals twice a week with zooplankton and phytoplankton.. Namedy Aquapharm 5 in 1 coral food and MarineSnow,

as well as weekly frozen foods such as rotifiers and cyclop-eeze.

I mixed in Fauna Marin Ultra Ricordea/zoanthus food to my fish food to let it flow throughout the tank.

Fish food mix include New Era aegis pellets, New Era algae pellets and APBreed Otohime TDO, as well as weekly frozen foods such as mysis and brine shrimps..

[tofubox]

Love that monti cap! Nice colours!

[picoreef]

Can show us a full tank pics.

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Current Parameters:

Salinity - 1.025

Temperature - 26.5

PH - 8.1

Calcuim - 420

Magnesium - 1400

Alkalinity - 8.5

Doing manual dosing of calcuim, magnesium and sodium bicarbonate..

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Can show us a full tank pics.

Hi.. I have a fts taken yesterday posted earlier.

[Patrick]

Very nice tank. How long does it take to multiply from 1 zao polyp to a big colony? Do you feed them and what with?

[benjamin81]

Very nice tank. How long does it take to multiply from 1 zao polyp to a big colony? Do you feed them and what with?

Thank for your kind words.

Yes i do feed them.. You can see my feeding regime that i posted earlier.

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More zoas collections..