<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11155648#post11155648 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reef Junkie
If you really want to see them take off, try target feeding them.
Now hear me out, this is not a fun thing. You need a small pipette and frozen enriched brine shrimp. You need to do this before the lights go out and with all the pumps off. Be prepared to get soreness and even a rash on the inside of your arm from it pressing against the upper rim of the tank... It sucks.
Carefully squeeze the pippette and drop the brine onto the oral disk of the zoa. do not move your hand around too much or the brine will get knocked off before the zoa has a chance to grab it. (Which can take up to a minute!)
Palythoas instantly grab the Brine. Some faster then others.
So, after you've got them taking the food in, quickly turn off the lights. Otherwise your fish will just pick the food out of the zoas mouths.
Bristle worms will come out of the wood work and there isn't much you can do about that.
You'll see explosive growth from your zoas if you just do this even once a week.
Saw my old PPE colony go from 4 to 20 in 2 months.
Just don't overdo it, you'll cause an algae bloom.
