Building the best high-end Zoa Garden, what am I missing?

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Hi reef fam,

Recently I've set out to try and build the most colorful zoa garden on the web. I started this a month ago, and with about $500 purchased my absolute favorites, trying carefully to ensure all major colors were accounted for, (here is a video documenting the growth and progress of the garden if you wish to follow along).

My questions is, what am I missing? Any personal favorites or no-brainers I should be including? I'm going for best overall color, and the brighter and higher contrast the options, the better! I want no subtle neighbors in this garden

Here is my list of zoas:

Blue:
  1. Snitches
  2. Spitfires
  3. Pearl Jams
  4. Blue Boo Berries
Green:
  1. Emeralds on Fire
  2. Candy Apples
Orange:
  1. Orange Oxides
  2. Blondies
  3. Rainbow Incenerators
  4. Jungle Juices
Red:
  1. Kedd's Red
  2. Twizzlers
  3. Dragon Eyes
Purple:
  1. Purple Heart
  2. Purple Hornets
  3. Fruit Loops
Yellow:
  1. Super Sayains
  2. La Lakers
Pink:
  1. Pink Diamonds
  2. Boomers
Other Notables:
  1. Bowser
  2. Wowser
  3. Utter Chaos
  4. Whammin Watermelons
  5. Rastas
  6. Solar Flare
  7. Hooligan

Thanks again team! Let me know what Zoas I should be including here! And subscribe to my channel if you want monthly updates on the progress here. I'll give shoutouts to anyone who recommends the next pieces to go in the garden.

 
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Those really aren't "high end" zoas..but awesome zoas none the less. Some of my favorites are "low end" like Utter chaos. Anyways, some bright ones missing are

Oompa loompas
Bam bams
Spekled kraks
Buttmuncher
Goblins on fire
Dragon eyes
Little shop of horrors
Hephaestus
Armor of gods
Big r space chaos
Rainbow infusion
Illuminati

Blues have to have
AOI
Wolverines
Tubbs blue

Predators, gmk, jf acid reflux, lemonheads, jf acid trips, grim reapers, etc..the list goes on and on.

Some of the best looking and brightest are some of the most inexpensive IME.
 
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You are missing White walkers, which are, well, white. Quite distinctive

E: and no collection is complete without sunny D, even if they are the opposite of expensive by now. Still great though
My wife thinks we need the sunny D’s too guess I have to anyways right? White walkers look great! I’m probably going to add that
 
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Those really aren't "high end" zoas..but awesome zoas none the less. Some of my favorites are "low end" like Utter chaos. Anyways, some bright ones missing are

Oompa loompas
Bam bams
Spekled kraks
Buttmuncher
Goblins on fire
Dragon eyes
Little shop of horrors
Hephaestus
Armor of gods
Big r space chaos
Rainbow infusion
Illuminati

Blues have to have
AOI
Wolverines
Tubbs blue

Predators, gmk, jf acid reflux, lemonheads, jf acid trips, grim reapers, etc..the list goes on and on.

Some of the best looking and brightest are some of the most inexpensive IME.
This is a great list :) I’m going to check this out and pick maybe 6 from the list. I’ll let you know what I pick
 

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Don’t think this is “high end” but I got some rainbow yodas and they are probably my favourite from my collection so far. They seem more mid tier pricing from what I’ve seen.

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Don’t think this is “high end” but I got some rainbow yodas and they are probably my favourite from my collection so far. They seem more mid tier pricing from what I’ve seen.

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These look so nice! I bet they look great under blues!
 
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