FishFreak's 12 Gallon NC Monster Zoanthid Tank

I haven't updated my tank status for a while so here it is:

72 Watts of PC lighting

My FTS of my 12 gallon. Yes, I have a lot of this green corraline and I hate it.

Zoa Avenue

Larger colonies

My huge colony that I recently moved to this tank so it isn't open yet.

Nice Zoos. The huge rock will look awsome once it opens.

Yea, I can't wait. It will light up the tank

Wow! Zoa heaven! LOL

That huge colony is going to look awesome when it opens up!!!

I will post pics once it opens

the green isn't corraline algae...coralline algae is purple-ish

corraline algae is red/purple/green

get up a pic once that colony is all opened up

that sure doesnt look like coralline algae at the bottom front of the tank to me. Every time I've seen coralline algae before, not only my tank, but it start as spots on the glass, and purple on the rocks, not as a sheet of green on the sand/glass. I may be wrong though.

-Mark

There are many types of coralline algae. I have both but my green seems to be the dominant and growth a lot.

You can't see through coralline algae... that is some kind of filming algae, maybe cyano.

I like those pumpkin looking zoa's, very nice (below and right of EE).

You can't see through this though. The spots at the bottom of the tank looks like you can because it isn't all the way filled in.

Thanks Angel

Thats not coraline , its not calcareus , its green algae , I have it in my tank, not that much ... but its there.

You can remove it with a credit card or something like that

No it is to hard to remove with a credit card or anything like that. I have tried. It is as hard as purple coralline.

Omg People, the rocks have some green corraline and it does exist(although not all of that is corraline it looks like you do have quite some algae in there), I have some of it on my rocks. Corraline can be many colors, oj/red/pink/purp/green etc....

Chris

Nope, all of it is the exist same.

sorry, didnt mean to start anything. I just dont think its coralline. Moving on though. I like the frogspawn at the top of the tank. What is that (looks like acrylic/plastic) thing sticking out on the top right of the tank (just under the top layer of rock and to the left of the outflow deal)? Does the gorgonian ever stick its polyps out? I had one, but its polyps rarely came out even though it looked healthy otherwise.

-Mark

Not all of the polyps but yes it sticks them out. That is acrylic and I use it to hold small pieces of zoas. I also ahve a small colony growing on it at the top

you should try glueing a few zoanthids to the back of the tank and and having that be the "background". I bet it would work pretty easily. May take a bit of time for the to grow over the entir back though.

Yea, that would look nice. I will have to try that. I hope it wouldn't need trimming because that would be hard

The large rock is beginning to open. About 40% is open. I will get a pci of it today. I am currently setting up a 10 gallon tank and I am going to make it a zoanthid reef with nothing but zoanthids in it. It may have some micros and acans in it but that is it.

Not all of that is corraline man, but there is some green corraline in there.

Chris

Well all of it is coralline because it is all the same. Hard and forms as little dots on the glass.

Now back to the actual tank and not the coralline.

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