Dream tank idea

[Cowillaggn]

Hi,
I literally had a dream about a reef tank last night, and it was PERFECT. I'm not going to be able to do this for a while, but I want to know if it could work or if it was just me dreaming.

Set up:
75 Gal. tank LOADED with live rock and fine sand,
30 gal. refugium with a calcium reactor, and protein skimmer and that stupid little light I have on my 10 gal,
It also had 2 big powerheads set to a wave maker thingy.

Lighting:
2 150 watt metal halides they had 2 T5 tubes on each side, 50/50 actinic/ daylight.

Livestock:
1 Niger Trigger,
about 6 acropora colonies and a lot of acropora frags in various colors,
2 birdsnest corals,
Way too many zoanthids to even think about counting,
And some other corals that probably don't exist.

It had a pretty standard cleaning crew of crabs, snails etc.

Is it remotely possible that something like that could EVER happen?

[Bergy]

hehehe, funny.. a real dream tank...


the trigger prolly wont work out in a reef tank, and the lights will be just shy of 'perfect'/dream quality...

but, other then thay, i like the too many zoas.... hehehehe

[Cowillaggn]

I like 'em.

[psykokid]

bill had a bare bottom 180 gallon that was just encrusted with all sorts of zoas..

[Cowillaggn]

Cool.

[Bergy]

it looked like a las vegas carpet... literally had zoas encrusted/growing on the bottom all over , couldnt tell it was bare bottom actually

[Just_Greg]

it looked like a las vegas carpet... literally had zoas encrusted/growing on the bottom all over , couldnt tell it was bare bottom actually

that's how you got past my "BB is just missing something" RADAR...your tank did indeed have a nice "bed o' zoas" look to it.

[RandyFolds]

Yeah, I assumed it had sand until I looked at it closely. Las vegas carpet indeed.

[Cowillaggn]

thats so cool. How long did t take for that to happen?

[Bergy]

actually, it happened kind of fast... im guessing one year... to cover about 4 sf...

I had a bunch of frags that i strategically placed all over, and they just grew out from there starting spots...

I did have a couple bare spots, but, that was somewhat intentional.. i would drop frag plugs/rocks onto the 'carpet' and let hte zoas grow onto them then peel them off after a month.. and then would give those starter frags to others...

[Cowillaggn]

awesome.