24 by 24 cube zoa now cold water

well my heater broke and crashed my tank and i have always wanted a coldwater reef so i traded my leds for a 1/4 chiller and set it to 65 for the cycle will be getting rocks from the beach today so ill get pics up soon


my set up is a vertex in80 skimmer and the bio pellets to reduce nitrates im looking for bio balls too for filtration and thing else i should get ?

That sucks, but I'm glad to hear about the temperate plan!

me to i have wanted one for a wile

I am thinking about adding some insulation (maybe styrofoam) to the back, bottom, and sides of my tank to reduce heat loss. Just an idea you might want to try too.

I heard your from Olympia? Should be able to get some nice stuff from the Sound then.

You might look into a canister filter.

ok ill hook up the canister and i am from olympia i see lots of stuff thats why i did the change over and tired of paying 200 a zoa frag

not much yet

mabey i should have cleaned it up before taking pics

Looks like you got some nice rocks. Is the tank 60 gallons? How big is the sump? That looks like a corner overflow in the back right, and two split black returns in the front but what's the white PVC pipe?

the pvc is for closed loop i rased it up so it would not suck stuff up and havent hid it yet

Looks alright. You might think of getting one tall rock that goes up and down in case nems want to be higher in the water column.

I'm going to be re-doing my rock scape soon as well and using some epoxy to build a sub structure of smaller rocks that the larger ones sit on that will have some caves and stuff. Similar to the one on that thread on RC.

pics of under my tank from a wile ago it has a bigger sump and a vertix in80 skimmer

AquaticEngineer wrote:I'm going to be re-doing my rock scape soon as well and using some epoxy to build a sub structure of smaller rocks that the larger ones sit on that will have some caves and stuff. Similar to the one on that thread on RC.

i am going to epoxy my rocks too but am not shure how i want them yet

i must stop looking at all the new zoas that are coming out or my tank will go tropical again lol they keep calling my like crack to a junky lol

As soon as you go on a good collecting trip in the sound and bring home some sweet stuff.......for free..........you'll have a new kinda crack

i hope so but havent made it there yet

Go to the Sound haha.

will 5 gallons of bio balls be enough for my tank ?

What else do you plan on filtering with?

i have the Eco bac

sorry my phone messed up i have eco bak pellets a skimmer and i jest got a wet dry sump for the bio balls and need to link the new sump with the old one

Yeah that should work then.