Can Ricordea and Zoanthids thrive in an SPS tank?

[HeadleesSon]

I know you can not have everthing, but can this combo work. I am setting up a system so I can have low flow and medium lighting in an area, but will the water be too clean for ricordea in a good SPS tank? How about Zoanthids?

 

[Wazzel]

Zoanthinds, absolutely, not sure how well ricordia will get along with SPS.

 

[tripdad]

Heck yes, I have Ric's doing well and splitting and zoa's are weeds in my tank. I have actually been eradicating the zoa's as they just want to take over. I would keep them isolated on their own rock.

 

[jda]

For me, all of them will get along great with high quality, high output lighting and NSW parameters.

They do better in my SPS tanks and don't melt as much as they do in some of the all-blue, Windex tanks that are "softie" specific.

I do keep them on their own rocks in the sand. They aren't all that hard to kill with kalk, but it can get messy for a while.

 

[HeadleesSon]

Great! They will be isolated in there own areas. thanks.

 

[rovster]

Just have to find spots with lower flow and possibly lower light. My zoas do OK, my rics do pretty good. I find the rics are a little mor sensitive to higher flow but they can take Aton of light.

 

[toothman]

ricordea do great in my sps tank they are par lovers, zoos in my tank not so good.

 

[ReefBum]

I love zoos but some can grow and spread fast and take over a lot of real estate, which is not a good thing in a tank with a lot of SPS dominated tank. I will probably never add them again.....just my 2 cents.

 

[Gmerek2]

no problem! Just give them some growth distance

 

[g0rilla]

Iv kept zoas, rics and sps in a mixed reef in the past with no trouble they will do fine : )

 

[kevin kaplan]

I have trouble with rics, but zoas grow well in my sps dominated tank. Mushrooms grow well, but rics don't. It is odd to me. I agree with keeping zoas isolated as they do take over too much real estate, especially palys.

 

[79chopperdr]

:reading: ummmmm yes!

More here


http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2473562

 

[Fish4life28]

Here's my rics. Zoas do wicked too. Just sold a baseball size colony I gre from a frag disk in about a year

 

[supervdl]

Probably more than you eventually want to... LOL