Fauna Marine Ultra Zoa food

[MikeandNicole]

Cherry corals is starting an experiment to see if the food works for growing out zoas. This is the first time I have seen a food that is targeted directly as zoas. I will be tagging along on their thread to see if it works. I know Fauna marine has an excellent reputation for coral foods and their LPS food seems to be amazing.

Maybe now we will start seeing those huge colonies.:beer:

 

[sterling18]

Cherry corals is starting an experiment to see if the food works for growing out zoas. This is the first time I have seen a food that is targeted directly as zoas. I will be tagging along on their thread to see if it works. I know Fauna marine has an excellent reputation for coral foods and their LPS food seems to be amazing.

Maybe now we will start seeing those huge colonies.:beer:

Do you have a link to the thread?

 

[MikeandNicole]

Probably should have added that:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1896848

 

[MUCHO REEF]

Cherry corals is starting an experiment to see if the food works for growing out zoas. This is the first time I have seen a food that is targeted directly as zoas. I will be tagging along on their thread to see if it works. I know Fauna marine has an excellent reputation for coral foods and their LPS food seems to be amazing.

Maybe now we will start seeing those huge colonies.:beer:

Question - lets say this food is the best thing since sliced bread. And by feeding it to your zoas and plays, do you think it's going to make them grow like crazy????


Mucho Reef

 

[MikeandNicole]

No idea if it will work or not, there are plenty of additives/foods out there that probably don't do a thing. I find this of interest because it is the first food that is targeted at zoos. Palys will show a feeding response to pieces of food, and following the research that you (Mucho Reef) had referenced to that shows that zoos do have the biology to eat, this could be interesting. The fact that Fauna Marine is the maker of this food gives me hope as their other foods are very highly regarded and have been shown to help the corals they were targeting grow.

Now if you don't have the right conditions in the first place, do I think that any food will magically make zoas grow? Not likely. Outside of cyclopzee (sp?) and phtyo which is more of a broadcast feed, is there any real zoa food out there?

 

[footballdude2k3]

just because there is no real zoa food out there does not mean you cannot target feed them. i have feed them rods food and when they are being target fed the growth rate does seem high than when you do not. the other thing that i think helps corals grow is changing your light cycle a bit, i think that if you imitate the seasons better they will remember when it is mating time. i did this a little and also had my zoa/paly colonies double(at least) in size.

 

[Timanator]

Just an FYI, we tried to order fauna marine foods through their us distributor, and have never been able to get any of the products.

 

[Emerald525]

just because there is no real zoa food out there does not mean you cannot target feed them. i have feed them rods food and when they are being target fed the growth rate does seem high than when you do not. the other thing that i think helps corals grow is changing your light cycle a bit, i think that if you imitate the seasons better they will remember when it is mating time. i did this a little and also had my zoa/paly colonies double(at least) in size.

What do you mean about this specifically? Do you keep your lights on for 8 hours and then use Moonlights at night.

I do find target feeding increases growth in a number of zoas but not all.

 

[footballdude2k3]

ok, i think that zoas are like animals that only breed in the spring, it is based on this, my lights were set for a cycle of 8 hours, then over about 2 months i increased it to 10 hours, during this 2 month period, they multiplied like rabbits, then they have really slowed down since i got to 10 hours, now that summer is over, i am going to go back down to 8 hours over the next couple months, then be there for 3-4 months and go back to 10 hours.

if you do this, your zoas will stay closed the majority of the time, however i would be willing to bet that if everything else stays the same, they will view this as spring and begin breeding.

 

[Scopus Tang]

ok, i think that zoas are like animals that only breed in the spring, it is based on this, my lights were set for a cycle of 8 hours, then over about 2 months i increased it to 10 hours, during this 2 month period, they multiplied like rabbits, then they have really slowed down since i got to 10 hours, now that summer is over, i am going to go back down to 8 hours over the next couple months, then be there for 3-4 months and go back to 10 hours.

if you do this, your zoas will stay closed the majority of the time, however i would be willing to bet that if everything else stays the same, they will view this as spring and begin breeding.

Zoas in your aquarium do not typically reproduce by breeding; breeding implies the release of egg and sperm cells into the water column, and occurs rarely, if ever by zoa population in aquariums. The zoas in your tank are reproducing via asexual reproduction.