Blue eyed blonde %$#@! zoas GROWTH?

[deebs]

Hey I have have a 5 polyp frag of these for over 8 months and havent seen them grow at all. water parameters are fine all my other zoas grow like crazy. Im using the AI sol Blues for lighting on my tank. Any one else have these zoas and have luck with growing them?

 

[bubonic]

Mine have been growing well started with 1 p and 3 months later i have 9

 

[deebs]

what kinda lighting are you using? do you spot feed ?

 

[yellowtail]

How long is your photo period?

 

[bubonic]

72gal bow 2 175w 15k bulbs with 36w blue leds strip. Leds on 12 pm off at 3pm then back on at 830pm until 1130pm. Halides on at 2pm until 9pm. Zoas are about 8 inches from top of water medium flow. Dont spot feed but feed fish on the heavy side so im sure they get something.

 

[Sagz70]

Are far down are they compared to your other Zoas?
Your lighting should be sufficient. At least i would think so...

 

[deebs]

Lights are on from 10am-9pm. Im sure theres enought light because my sps are thriving. all my zoas are on the sand bed ( about 18 inches from my lights) and these guys are the only ones not growing. im gonna try moving them up higher. Maybe they just dont like the LEDS. when I bought them they were being kept under MH.

 

[ltlevil]

I have found that a lot of Zoas take a good bit longer to acclimate to LEDs from MH/T5's for some reason. Especially higher end Agave's Vampire PE's but other ones like Utter Chaos and RPE do so quickly.