Allelopathy between Zoas and Stonies?

[JTheed]

I know that a large number of soft corals produce obscene amounts of toxic chemicals into the tank as a local dominance ploy.

I also know that Zoanthid mucous is quite spectacularly toxic. However, I've only heard about it being bound within the mucous.

I do intend to run sme activated carbon and skim the tank, but I was just wondering if zoanthids had any deleterious effect on stony corals within the same tank.

I love zoanthids, but I also want to keep some of the more robust stony corals (something like montipora etc.) and would very much like to not retard the wellbeing of the one on behalf of the other. Thanks!

 

[flyyyguy]

I run sps dominated tanks with quite a few polyps as well. I dont even run carbon but for a couple of days every few months. I skim agressively as well as feed agressively though.

they certainly can sting sps if allowed to grow close but as long as you arent fragging in the tank I dont think the allelopathy is all that big of a deal having sps and palys/zoas together.

 

[LoudProudNPunk]

i dont do it, but i think it is very common for SPS keepers to put zoas in their tanks, to add some variety and more color.