Lets see your PPE's.

[Reefer08]

Lets see your purple people eater palys.


I see some that a deep dark purple and some that are faded purple, any reason why this happens?

Also how slow is the growth on these?


Thanks

 

[Scythanith]

Mine grow quite well, a head a month I'd say. I'd expect as the colony gets larger it will pic up it growth rate as well.

The white speckled sides:

Some growth. Excuse the lens flare!

 

[E.intheC]

mine doesn't look that nice. yes, I said "doesn't" because it's only 1. haha.

 

[the808state]

 

[JMalone81]

808 you have some nice stuff?Do you sell?

 

[the808state]

nope, i'm very greedy... lol

 

[zebrashark]

nice pics!

 

[impur]

PPE probably my fav zoa of all

 

[reefpeeper]

my question is how the hell do you get these things to grow. i had two polyps forever and they only seem to grow when cut.

 

[impur]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15224272#post15224272 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reefpeeper
my question is how the hell do you get these things to grow. i had two polyps forever and they only seem to grow when cut.

You are on to something there

 

[E.intheC]

I've had one PPE for months. Looks healthy, but doesn't grow. All my other zoas are adding more and more polyps (one frag went from 5 polyps a few months ago to 17 polyps now), but the PPE's don't want to grow out!

 

[reefpeeper]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15224332#post15224332 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by impur
You are on to something there

seeing the rocks with like ten polyps is crazy. they had to be cut for them to grow like that.

 

[impur]

Not once i got to about 7-10 polyps. I started with one and it took several months for a baby to sprout. When it was an adult polyp i cut between them and in a few weeks both polyps sprouted a new one. I did 1 more cut and then left them alone. Not sure why they grow faster when they are cut but they do.

Since i've got about 20 polyps now, i see a new bud about once every 10 days. The new buds still take a long time to grow to adult polyps though.

You also might try feeding it.

 

[E.intheC]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15224508#post15224508 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by impur
You also might try feeding it.

What do you feed your PPE's?

 

[impur]

Mine get whatever i feed the fish. They are in direct line of my sureflow mj mod but at the opposite side of the tank. The food floats right to them. I feed mysis, plankton, brine, emeral entree, and flake food.

 

[E.intheC]

Good way to feed them. I use a lot of high quality pellet, so I'm going to start target feeding some frozen cyclopeeze at night. We'll see if that helps.

I really like your avatar pic by the way.

 

[impur]

Thanks

Try some mysis or brine while you are at it. They like the meaty stuff!!

 

[PR_Reefers]

hope it's not too late...lol.. my 5 year old colony..