Feed Zoanthids?

[-RYknow]

Hey guys, I've just noticed today that our Zoanthids don't appear to be quite as pretty as they were when we first got them. The color seems to be fading a bit. I was just wondering if there is something I should be "feeding" them?

I also read about the Vodka treatment, and people seem to be having some success with color enhancement with the vodka dosing, but I'm thinking it's not really worth it on a 20g?

Anyway...just some advice on what I can do to really bring out the colors of our Zoa's. We are really interested in making a nice little reef tank. I just want to get what we have under control, and pretty before we decide to add anything else.

Here is a quick link in reference to our tank.

Thanks,
-RYknow

 

[ludnix]

Kent sells a zoanthid supplement called Zoe, but I can't attest to it's effectiveness though. From what I can tell it's mostly phytoplankton and amino acids.

 

[bubbly]

The vodka dosing is to help your skimmer pull out lots of nasty gunk from the water.

You can accomplish the same thing by stepping up your water changes.

I would feed them with something very fine like coral frenzy or something similar -- you have to figure that they would not be able to catch very large food in nature, so I would start there.

Also, you may try upping the light and see if that helps -- they may be "higher light" zoas