[cozer]

Nice to be here to share my 50 gal reef tank which was set up about an year ago. Here shows some pics of the fishes and corals in the tank.

FTS


FTS


Common clownfish


Flame wrasse couple


Yellow tang


Purple tang


Red head solon fairy wrasse


Pics of the corals:













Some macro shots:

[BLKBRDTA]

Originally Posted by cozer

Absolutely spectacular reef David. I am amazed, I don't think I have ever seen so many colors. The one above is by far my favorite. Hello and welcome to the reef! We love pictures here at ReefBuilders.com and these certainly will satisfy our hunger for awhile lol.

[cozer]

Originally Posted by BLKBRDTA

Absolutely spectacular reef David. I am amazed, I don't think I have ever seen so many colors. The one above is by far my favorite. Hello and welcome to the reef! We love pictures here at ReefBuilders.com and these certainly will satisfy our hunger for awhile lol.

Thanks for your praise on the pics of my tank. Actually, among those corals kept in my tank, I like the zoas most! Their colorful appearance is quite attractive to lots of reefkeepers. I have another smaller tank for keeping different zoas collected in an year. Maybe I should post that in the future.

[BLKBRDTA]

Yea they are quite colorful, I like the color variety of them all. I think you should definitely post more pictures soon! lol

[jimw369]

Very nice tank! Could you tell us more about your setup and maybe a pic or two of whats under the stand? Thanks!

[cozer]

Originally Posted by jimw369

Very nice tank! Could you tell us more about your setup and maybe a pic or two of whats under the stand? Thanks!

Here are some photos of the set-up procedure and things under the stand taken an year ago.

Empty display tank (90cm X 45cm X 45cm, 8mm thickness temp. glass)


Sump, without using filtration medium


Sand in, live rock in


Complete layout with live rocks


Some corals in

[BLKBRDTA]

Great setup man. Thats crazy that you stacked that thing full of corals within a year! What kind of skimmer and reactor media are you currently using?

[cozer]

Originally Posted by BLKBRDTA

Great setup man. Thats crazy that you stacked that thing full of corals within a year! What kind of skimmer and reactor media are you currently using?

The figure of the complete system


The whole system is composed of:
(a) 50 gal main display tank
(b) 20 gal sub-display tank (zoas only)
(c) sump
(d) refuge (not completely set up yet)


Here shows the main equipment for the maintaing of this tank

Skimmer: BM-160 (external type)



Calcium reactor TMS CR-120D

Empty


With AB hydrocarbonat

[BLKBRDTA]

Thats awesome you have a different 20 gal running on the same system. Your plumbing looks great too, as well as your diagram. Did you drill the returns on the bottom of each tank yourself? Hows the flow in your 50? Any powerheads?

[cozer]

Originally Posted by BLKBRDTA

Thats awesome you have a different 20 gal running on the same system. Your plumbing looks great too, as well as your diagram. Did you drill the returns on the bottom of each tank yourself? Hows the flow in your 50? Any powerheads?

I didn't drill the returns on the bottom myself. In fact, I just drew the the design figure of the tank and sen it to the local aquarium store to have it done. It is not so expensive and also quite common in Taiwan.
There is no powerhead in my 50. The flow in the main display tank depends only on the return pump with three branched output as shown in the pics. I think the flow is already quite enough for the corals since there are not so many SPS specieces in my tank!

[BLKBRDTA]

Yea I see what your saying. Is the whole tank tempered glass or is it acrylic? I would imagine that you have pretty decent flow in there by the way that your flow heads come up through the bottom and are angeled. Nice skimmer and CA reactor. So you have one 50 running your corals, and another 20 branching off the same system with strictly zoas through the wall? Thats an awesome setup man, how about a pic of the Zoa tank?

[cozer]

Originally Posted by BLKBRDTA

Yea I see what your saying. Is the whole tank tempered glass or is it acrylic? I would imagine that you have pretty decent flow in there by the way that your flow heads come up through the bottom and are angeled. Nice skimmer and CA reactor. So you have one 50 running your corals, and another 20 branching off the same system with strictly zoas through the wall? Thats an awesome setup man, how about a pic of the Zoa tank?

Yes! the whole system including my 50, 20, sump and refuge is complete through detailed plumbing. As you know, holes were drilled on the wall. I ran a risk of being blamed by my parent to do this when no one was at home~~ ha ha! If not the lack of space, an even larger tank should be considered!

[cozer]

Pics of my 20. I called it "Zoa Only Tank"

The whole tank with stand


Side view with the stand door open




Empty tank


Live rocks in


Initial layout


Zoas in


The LED light source of this tank

[BLKBRDTA]

Wow, I could imagine the whole setup now! Thats a great idea David, and the overflow runs down through the wall. Nice LED's lights you have over them as well, are they 14K or 20K's? How do the Zoas do under the lights? Do you frag often?

[cozer]

Originally Posted by BLKBRDTA

Wow, I could imagine the whole setup now! Thats a great idea David, and the overflow runs down through the wall. Nice LED's lights you have over them as well, are they 14K or 20K's? How do the Zoas do under the lights? Do you frag often?

The LED light fixture is composed of 1.25W white (6700K), blue (20000K) and additional red LED lamps. Four LED sets are installed in the fixture including 2 white sets and 2 blue sets, and each set composed of 6 lamps on it. The total power consumption of this lighting fixture is 30W (1.25W X 6 lamp/set X 4set). And the average Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) should be around 14000K (6700K X 0.5 + 20000K X 0.5). A visually light blue is observed under the illumination of the fixture.

As for the performance of the zoas, I think photos speak everything. So, here are some pics of the zoas I've kept in my 50 and 20. (A LED lighting fixture with more lamps is also now using for the 50!):

Blue one


Green one
Under W+B lighting


Under B lighting


Red heart with dark red round (under W+B lighting)


Red heart with bright red round (under W+B lighting)


Yellow heart with orange round (under W+B lighting)


Pink heart with green round(under W+B lighting)


Radiant heart with red round
Under W+B lighting


Under B lighting


Orange heart with green round
Under W+B lighting


Under B lighting


Yellow heart with dark red rond (Under W+B lighting)


Green heart with yellow round (Under W+B lighting)


Orange heart with green round


A colorful "Zoa Jigsaw Puzzle"


I didn't usually frag the zoas purposely. Only if the coming of other new species or the need to move the rocks that I would remove some of the zoas from the substrate they already sticked on. The "Jigsaw Puzzle" was therefore made with those removed zoas of different species on a suitable flat rock. During three-month test (since the date that I changed the lighting fixture from HQI+T5 to LED), a similar growth behavior and enhanced color performance of the zoas can be apparently observed!

Hope that the information above help!

[cozer]

Here shows the LED lighting fixture installed for my 20:

[BLKBRDTA]

Thats a nice LED ballast, did you put a kit together, buy it or did you make it yourself? I have some 465nm Lunar Blue LEDs for nighttime viewing, I didn't know Zoas could glow under Blue LEDs.. I set up a 50 gal bow 4 months ago, I am making sure the levels are all stable before I start putting in LPS and such. But I will tell you that you have motivated me to create a "Zoa Jigsaw Puzzle," its probably the most beautiful thing I have seen yet lol. Yes the information you supplied did help a lot, I learned something I never knew before. The pictures still look awesome, i'm sure everyone tracking this post is enjoying them as well. Keep em' coming Cozer

[redsea]

Originally Posted by cozer

Pics of my 20. I called it "Zoa Only Tank"

The whole tank with stand


Side view with the stand door open




Empty tank


Live rocks in


Initial layout


Zoas in


The LED light source of this tank

awesome tank!

[cozer]

Originally Posted by redsea

awesome tank!

Thanks! A wonderful moment is to see my tanks after finishing my work everyday! It relaxes~~

Originally Posted by BLKBRDTA

Thats a nice LED ballast, did you put a kit together, buy it or did you make it yourself? I have some 465nm Lunar Blue LEDs for nighttime viewing, I didn't know Zoas could glow under Blue LEDs.. I set up a 50 gal bow 4 months ago, I am making sure the levels are all stable before I start putting in LPS and such. But I will tell you that you have motivated me to create a "Zoa Jigsaw Puzzle," its probably the most beautiful thing I have seen yet lol. Yes the information you supplied did help a lot, I learned something I never knew before. The pictures still look awesome, i'm sure everyone tracking this post is enjoying them as well. Keep em' coming Cozer

The LED fixtures were purchased from the local manufacture in Taiwan. In fact, he is recently planning to export their products in the near future, maybe to USA as the first foreign market! Well, I was just informed, and could not sure that is this kind of LED fixture also attractive to the marine tank keepers like you. Since the brand "PFO" is the leader in manufacturing LED fixtures and has their fixture well designed with controlling modules~~

According to my observation, zoas are the most glowing species among those LPS kept in my tank under blue LED light. You should really try to illuminate yours under your blue LED light! A surprising results should therefore be seen! As for the "Zoa Jigsaw Puzzle", it is quite fun to stick them together and to see them grow into a complete puzzle~~ Try to use the zoas as many colors as possible! I believe that you will soon have a nice looking puzzle as I did!

[BLKBRDTA]

Thanks Cozer, yea that would be a cool idea if your friend there was to export LED ballasts. The company PFO was recently sued by another electronic company called Orbitec. All PFO LED Solaris ballasts are being taken off the shelves across online and public stores. Its a bogus lawsuit in the first place because Orbitec patented something that barely had anything to do with LEDs, more in the circuitry of the ballast. Anyways, yea I hope to make a puzzle like yours soon, definitely keep uploading those pictures of yours though, we all are enjoying them.

[cozer]

Originally Posted by BLKBRDTA

Thanks Cozer, yea that would be a cool idea if your friend there was to export LED ballasts. The company PFO was recently sued by another electronic company called Orbitec. All PFO LED Solaris ballasts are being taken off the shelves across online and public stores. Its a bogus lawsuit in the first place because Orbitec patented something that barely had anything to do with LEDs, more in the circuitry of the ballast. Anyways, yea I hope to make a puzzle like yours soon, definitely keep uploading those pictures of yours though, we all are enjoying them.

Yea, I have just read the news about PFO's trouble here on Reef builder. It is really a unpleasant thing especially for this innovative aquarium product! However, I think that LED lighting fixtures are still a potential lighting system in the near future. You know, environmental issues etc. are now frequently considered for any traditional or of course those new developed products~~

Of course I will keep posting stuff in my tank! I am going to keep a diary for the corals under the illumination of the LED light to see if LED lighting can be used as a replacement of the traditional lighting! Efforts should always be made before the coming of success~

[BLKBRDTA]

Yes you bring up very valid points with the worlds "going green" phase. It really is amazing how little power the LEDs consume, how much lumen output they produce, little heat they through off, and length of their lifespan.. I would consider doing what you did in a Nano cube, a strictly Zoa Nano. Can't wait to see some more pictures of everything.

[cozer]

A FTS pic taken two days ago is shown below:


It should be mentioned that this FTS was taken under the illumination of LED light.


Below is the FTS under former HQI + T5 light for comparison:


What do you think about the difference between the two pics?

[BLKBRDTA]

Wow, I do notice a difference! The LEDs make each color stand out more vividly, much like HDTV. Its almost as if the Metal Halide casts a white haze over every color, where as the LEDs bring out the natural color itself, without compromising hue and saturation. Great comparison Cozer! The LEDs you are using on he 50 gal are 6,700K Whites and 20,000K Blues correct?

[cozer]

Originally Posted by BLKBRDTA

Wow, I do notice a difference! The LEDs make each color stand out more vividly, much like HDTV. Its almost as if the Metal Halide casts a white haze over every color, where as the LEDs bring out the natural color itself, without compromising hue and saturation. Great comparison Cozer! The LEDs you are using on he 50 gal are 6,700K Whites and 20,000K Blues correct?

You really made a detailed description on the comparison of the two conditions! Actually, it does show enhanced contrast between each species and their own colors under the LED light! Yes, the LEDs I am using are 6.700K Whites and 20,000K Blues! As for the detailed specification of the LED light you asked for in the former post, I have to ask the manufacturer for the list of it! I will post it as soon as I get that from him! Thank you for continuously noticing and replying to my thread! I am not that good in describing things in English. So, if any thing looks wrong or strange in the content that I reply, please remind me for correcting it the next time! THX~