little 33 zoa tank ****updated with pics jan 15****

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Originally Posted by Myka

Your Zoa tank reminds me of mine, minus the Valonia! We have a lot of the same Zoas too. Where'd ya get the Tonga branch from? I need some for my tank!! Looks good...maybe I missed it, but how long have you had it set up?

thanks mindy , too bad ive let the tank go to hell lately, i battling a brutal aiptasi problem , like 300 heads in a 33g i have a filefish whos starting to make a dent but just about all my zoas are sandbed ridden and they all have aiptasia growing from them, it makes me sad that its gone this far but im slowly making ground ive been breeding berghias but they take too long and in fear of losing my tank i had to buy the file fish all my zoas are still alive but ive lost some because of the aiptasia lucky they were common and not rare.ive been thinking about moving some of the rare ones to my roomates ten gallon but i dont want to introduce aiptasia into his tank


the tank has been running for almost 3 yrs its gone through about a million changes it started off as a fish only then it went through several mixed reefs untill i decided a few months ago it would be my zoa only tank.i had all my zoas in my 110g and 180g but they werent growing good and they had very little color then when i moved them to this system they started growing like crazy lol

im loving the tonga branch i got it off a friend who ordered to much so it was pressure washed and given to me and i love what its done to my tank it went purple in a week and now is a really nice purple and blends in completely it stood out for a bit and looked weird where it was white lol
i have a few pieces left over if your ever in town its not much just a couplke pounde but if your ever in edmonton you can have it free of charge its never hit my tank yet so no aiptasia its in my liverock bin so its " live " but there doesnt be a whole lot of life on it as theres not really any holes its solid branch so it needs to be mixed with other rock is what i was told

right now the tank is horribly full lol i have about 50lbs or more in that tank i had 35lbs in there then added 20lbs of branch and used black tie straps to keep the branch together and have it wrap around my other rock, the branch doesnt stack well and i was fearful my snowflake eel would topple it without the straps.

we do have alot of the same zoas lol i usually buy a small frag when ever i get to a store and i have alot of reef friends in edmonton who have zoas as well so ive been lucky to get frags off them here and therewhen i last counted i was up to 47 different kinds lately ive been looking for rare ones, i placed a thread looking for rare zoas with a list of what i wanted and to my surprise ive gotten alot of replies with people willing to make a frag

when my new tank is up and running i want to have one of the sections a zoa only but im afraid to tear down my 33 its been running so long lol kinda attached to it now

sorry the pics arent great im going to take some pics of all my zoas as soon as i can get a decent camera all my pics are done on my phone and i cant really get fts or a good shot of my zoas everyone always says my pics dont do it justice so id love for someone with a real camera come over and help me get some pics but i need to solve my aiptasia and weed problem first


mindy do the tonga branch i think your tank would look so nice with it ive also got some pieces of small rock that are in cool shapes kinda like christmas trees its like a mix of branch and fiji lol ill try to get some more pics soon of my new zoas when my roomate comes home hes got a better phone camera than me cheers