I know there has been plenty of discussions on the length of tentacles of zoas. Most of what I read seems to indicate that the amount of flow seems to influence the length.
Well this weekend I saw a friends SPS tank which has tons of zoas towards the bottom. This thing has enough flow(90G with 2 MP40 and a crazy return) that he can not even run a sandbed in the display. Funny thing is that while his zoas are thriving(He frags them often to trim them back), most do not have long tentacles. The frags that I have gotten from him now have way longer tentacles in my tank which has no where the flow of his tank(30G MP20).
Also, the Fiji zoas that I have the tentacles never grew. And I have had these for over a year which survive a week's power outage during hurricane Ike. The Japanese zoas that I have seen also dont seem to grow longer skirts.
So the question is, do these zaos have longer skirts in the wild? And if they have shorter skirts, do they stay that way in captivity?
Well this weekend I saw a friends SPS tank which has tons of zoas towards the bottom. This thing has enough flow(90G with 2 MP40 and a crazy return) that he can not even run a sandbed in the display. Funny thing is that while his zoas are thriving(He frags them often to trim them back), most do not have long tentacles. The frags that I have gotten from him now have way longer tentacles in my tank which has no where the flow of his tank(30G MP20).
Also, the Fiji zoas that I have the tentacles never grew. And I have had these for over a year which survive a week's power outage during hurricane Ike. The Japanese zoas that I have seen also dont seem to grow longer skirts.
So the question is, do these zaos have longer skirts in the wild? And if they have shorter skirts, do they stay that way in captivity?
