[scubadude]

Rick is a friend of mine in near Ft. Pierce florida who cultures, collects rare zooanthids. His setup is very modest, simple, and effecient. He is not one to toot his own horn but after being over @ his house for hours checking out his system Im sure you guys will agree its worthy of posting.






Rocky

[scubadude]

He uses 55g drums cut in half as his tanks, and he has a 1000w hamilton 12k bulb fired by a SS ballast inside a diamond lumenarc reflector, as well as some LOA lights from HD.

[scubadude]

Rick standing next to his invert tanks.


Most all of these pictures where taken under the 1000wt 12k bulb

[Reefland]

Boy does he have the zoos!

[Samper]

Who would I talk to to acquire some of those beautiful zoos?

[scubadude]

Samper

just pm him, his nickname is ricksreef

[Samper]

aha didnt know they were one and the same.


Thanks.

[ricksreef]

uh oh! the obsession is exposed!
thx for a kewl visit bud, nice pix

that's me. as you can see, i traded my shooz for zoos!

oh, & it's a 1000W 14K bulb.

[Sueet]

Those zoa's are fantastic..... Are you selling any of them? Man, I ... and some other people I know, would LOVE to get ahold of some of those gorgeous beauties... Do you have a website somewhere?

All I can say is... Wow!

[Tie]

Originally Posted by ricksreef

oh, & it's a 1000W 14K bulb.

Now that's a light bulb!

Great looking Zoos. I have one small pitifull zo rock in my tank.

[scubadude]

Rick had to relocate his prop system because of the hurricane damage. But he has told me that he is back up and running....wat a fish geek Rick I know you have a good camera now, so dont keep us guessing.....cmon post some pics for us and give us an update

[ricksreef]

ya, things sure did take a twist with them winds and waves
that blew thru How you doin' bud? ready to get them
saltwater viens of yours flowin' again?

I'm still doing a little tweakin' here and there (but hell, i'm always
tweaking something) but here's a few pix i recently took.

the first one is my old reef tank which is now a lagoon/refugium/settling
tank with work counter attachment.
the second is my new (to me) 100g reef with the 75g, 55g & 30g
as frag/propagation tanks.
the third & forth are the two sides to my wall o' 10g's.
& the last is a sample of a few things in grow out.
i still have plans to install a couple of 8' shallow propagation tanks too.

[Poseidon]

Looking Good Rick! Glad to hear you are back up and rolling after the storms cleared out!

[scubadude]

Rick its lookin great man! Thanx for the pix and all....I know you have been waiting patiently for a long time to get involved in SPS and it does me good to see you have a tankfull of frags and ALL of them SPS. The new domain change also looks great www.ricksreefs.com Keep up the good work bro

[Reefland]

The Favorite Links list is a bit dissappointing.

[ricksreef]

thx guys. ya, SPS on on the menu but my favorite snack will always be zoos.
i'm going to try to stay with aquacultured as much as possible so anyone with
an excess of anything (even them blue shrooms/xenia ), i'll gladly trade for
anything else on my site.

Scott, the site is still a work in progress, but i think i can toss up
a link to this site too. plus i hope to be a sponsor soon too

[Samper]

Rick I have some blue Xenia to get rid of but they don't ship very well I hear. Also must add that although blue/silver when I bought them they are now more brown looking under my 20k's which I understand isn't supposed to happen with the more cool colored lamps but it did. They have started pulsing though which is a plus for me. If you want any I'll try to help ya out.

[scubadude]

I went to spend some more time w/ Rick this past weekend and here are some more pics for you guys that I thought you might like

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and some more

[Bristle Worm]

Fantastic colors.... is that zeovit or just food coloring? I am jealous. I especially like the long stringy green zoos in the last pic