fastest & easiest zoos?

[exv152]

What are the easiest and fastest growing zoos? Or are their growth rates dependant on water parameters and lighting etc.?

 

[JJ650]

What are the easiest and fastest growing zoos? Or are their growth rates dependant on water parameters and lighting etc.?

In a good environment, they can multiply at a steady rate. I recently bought a 2 polyp valentine massacre and it has added 1 polyp a week. That doesn't mean it will always be 1 polyp, that was pretty quick for this one. I have some eagle eyes that were 100+ and they took about 6 months to get that far....then they all closed up and completely melted away.
Some tanks can't handle them well at all. Some others can. I have a low nutrient tank with little nitrate in the column and mine do ok. Some folks have some nitrates and they go bonkers while others have similar dissolved organics and they never survive.

It's not an easy question to answer. Lighting makes a huge difference as it does with all corals. Some zoas like more light than others. Flow is also key. You don't want to blast them, but some like stronger flows and some might like a constant gentle flow.

 

[that Fish Guy]

I have over 100 Different Types of Zoanthids and by Far Hands Down the Fastest Growing are

Tyree Orange Rainbow
Vampire Paly's AKA Vamps in Drag

Then Third would be Bloodsuckers

 

[exv152]

Are there any types to avoid?

 

[jjmcat]

I've always had the ugly zoas grow fast for me lol

 

[that Fish Guy]

Are there any types to avoid?

Anything Wild Caught.

Ocean life is different from Aquarium life.

I think those Corals have a tougher time adapting to our Home Aquariums.

Stuff that has been grown in many peoples aquariums and passed around collector to collector do much better in terms of growth and color.

Most any Wild Zoanthids I get loose a ton of color, don't grow at all or insanely slow, and tend to Melt Away.

 

[organism]

Anything Wild Caught.

Ocean life is different from Aquarium life.

I think those Corals have a tougher time adapting to our Home Aquariums.

You would be very surprised to know how many zoas being sold in the hobby these days are fresh out of the ocean, it's a much larger percentage than the largest percentage you're thinking of right now. If it's metallic type polyps and coming from a retailer the odds are not in favor of it being captive raised, pretty much the opposite... On the other hand it doesn't mean they'll have much of a tougher time adapting either, imo adaptation is pretty specific to the type of zoa, some are easy and some are melters.

 

[that Fish Guy]

You would be very surprised to know how many zoas being sold in the hobby these days are fresh out of the ocean, it's a much larger percentage than the largest percentage you're thinking of right now. If it's metallic type polyps and coming from a retailer the odds are not in favor of it being captive raised, pretty much the opposite... On the other hand it doesn't mean they'll have much of a tougher time adapting either, imo adaptation is pretty specific to the type of zoa, some are easy and some are melters.

Buy from Frag Swaps from people that Grow them Out.

If they have a Fancy Name and have been around for a while and at a Swap they are probably Aquarium Raised (Rastas, Hornets, Bam Bam's, etc.).

 

[rbla51]

Anything Wild Caught.

Ocean life is different from Aquarium life.

I think those Corals have a tougher time adapting to our Home Aquariums.

Stuff that has been grown in many peoples aquariums and passed around collector to collector do much better in terms of growth and color.

Most any Wild Zoanthids I get loose a ton of color, don't grow at all or insanely slow, and tend to Melt Away.

disagree 100%..The Florida natives i LEGALLY collect, are as bad as button polyps..they take over. The exotics i have introduced from other parts of the world seem to struggle

 

[Coralreefer1]

Tyree's Vivid Rainbow
Devil's Teeth
Pinwheels
Green Implosions
Sunny D's
Just to name a few!

 

[Tschupe]

Hands down. Pandora palys. They grow like weeds. Close second would be mind blowing palys.