blue agave

I pruchased a 2 polyp frag about 2 months ago, and they have since grown 3 more! I do a 15% water change every week, and dose for calcium and alk. I also feed frozen mysis, a high grade pellet food, cyclopeeze, and AquaVitro's Reef Fuel. Other than this, I can't think of anything else that I can accredit their growth to.

HTH

Keith
 
I still have a hard time believing that zoas actually eat pellet or frozen food

If anyone has pictures or proof I would like to see

Thanks.

Not to derail OP thread but thier fairly easy to keep just like another zoa

I don't find some being "fast growers" and other "slow"

Its determined by one's water parameters

Not by "name or strain"
 
ive kept blue agaves in acceptable (lol) water with moderate to high flow under t5's in my frag tank. my concern with all my z's/p's is maintaining my alk and having enough flow to keep detritus out of the crevices.
 
howze01 said:
That's even more confusing! I would have said PE's are Palys. The polyps seem to be too big to me for them to be zoas. I have had PE and they have eaten.
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again... not 100% sure, lol. but PE are in the class of zoanthids. i think they fall under a different term but still under zoanthids. they are basically a bigger type of zoanthid. for example, the palythoa gradis. its a paly but in a different classification or something like that.
 
I have some large orange zoas that will eat mysis like my palys do. Next time I feed I'll feed one & snap a pic. I also had some large pink ones that ate, but I lost those.
 
Best I could do with the camera phone. Boyfriend took the real camera to the races.

All 3 of these zoas are in various stages of eating a piece of mysis.
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i got a single blue agave in january. its grown a lot but hasn't sprouted any other heads yet, its prolly the largest polyp (besides my PPE) in my tank. its a beautiful polyp for sure. mine's under a par38 bulb and i think it looks best under higher light

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Friday Night said:
I still have a hard time believing that zoas actually eat pellet or frozen food

If anyone has pictures or proof I would like to see

Thanks.

Not to derail OP thread but thier fairly easy to keep just like another zoa

I don't find some being "fast growers" and other "slow"

Its determined by one's water parameters

Not by "name or strain"
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I would have to disagree with most everything in this statement! Most of my larger polyps (including the Agaves) have all been seen munching on mysis and the occasional pellet! I would take some photos next time, but SucshiGirl already provided some. As far as some being faster growers than others,this is absolutely true! I am strictly talking polyp count, and some of my zoas multiply 5-10 times as fast as others. For example, the Radioactive Dragon Eyes in my system have added roughly 100 new polyps in the last 4 months, whereas many others have only added 10 20 polyps on the same time frame. These were all purchased at the same time and have been in the same system since! Other than the Dragon eyes having roughly 5 -10 heads more than the others starting out, all conditions were pretty much the same (lighting, flow).

I do agree though that they are fairly easy to keep like MOST other zoas!
 
howze01 said:
Those look like Palys to me too.....

These things can be so confusing!!!!!
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What makes them look like palys? My known palys are more tube shaped, with mouths down inside rather than on top, plus the difference in the "stems" of them (palys with speckles in them). These look exactly like the rest of my zoas of various sizes. The one in the back had food in its mouth & in the mouth of the watermelon behind it, I just couldn't get the phone to focus on the small one. The larger one won that food battle.
 
My blue agaves are some of my favs, but do grow slower than most of my others. I have some under t5 and some under MH, they both grow slow, but the MH ones have a nicer "speckling" to them.
 
Hopefully this will help:

micro zoanthids- the smallest of the smallest zoanthids

Zoanthids- as the title states they are zoanthids but to give a size reference they are items such as your hornets, fire and ice, yellow jackets and so on.

Palys- AKA Zoanthus Gigantus Things that fall into this group are most PE ( People Eaters) magicians, blue agave, rainbow palys, pink hippos, and so on

Protopalys- reference for this type, Nuke Greens, Purple Death, Captian America, Mind Blowing

I hope this clears up some of the difference in why some are called zoas, others palys, and proto palys.

Often times the protopalys and palys get mixed up but if you put a nuke green next to a magician you can see the obvious difference in appearance
 
most of my palys and people eaters will catch and eat food in my tank, I feed a lot of flakes, pellet and frozen mixture, my ding dangs were eating flakes, they have doubled in a month I think it is from the feeding.
 
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