making my zoas giant!

[redsafe]

hello all,

Is there anything excent light and flow which will make my zoas spead? the impression i get is - no...

thanks

 

[insane916]

well i havn't really done much with trying to make them grow faster but there is some calcium you can buy and you can dose your tank with it when you do your make up water. but if you have brown algea it will make that spread as well. if you dont try it out.

http://www.petsolutions.com/default.aspx?ItemId=10103160&EID=10103160&SID=FROOGLE

 

[SIR PATRICK]

Apropriate lighting (some zoas like tons, other like the shade), good indirect flow, stable water parameters, food source (and not necesarily anything you have to add to the tank yourself), and the proper placment in your tank all= great growth.

Pretty much all comes down to good tank husbandry, proper equipment and proper placment in you tank, and they have the potential to grow like weeds- even the said "slow growers"

You find a zoas happy spot, and they will explode for you, in your tank.

Sound easier than it is, unless you are really lucky!

 

[insane916]

yeah good lighting and water quality is good i set some mushrooms in a good spot and everything is splitting and growing good

 

[redsafe]

hello again,

I have attached a pic of my tank, the flow is marked with the orange arrows (comes from a 1100lpf Seio p/h). The zoa colonies marked with red circles.

what do you think placement-wize?

the tank is a rio 180

 

[redsafe]

done a few tests:

Phosphate 2.5mg/L
Ca around 800mg/L
nitrate below 5mg/L
pH 7.9

this was before a water change

 

[650-IS350]

Phosphate 2.5mg/L
Ca around 800mg/L
nitrate below 5mg/L
pH 7.9

CA should be around 450, pH should be around 8.2

What are the dimensions of that tank? Don't know if 1 PH is strong enough flow to distriibute properly for that tank?

 

[redsafe]

100cm's by about 60x60

flow seems strong rnough but...

also, can zoas spead along the sand?

 

[khaosinc]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15694578#post15694578 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 650-IS350
Phosphate 2.5mg/L
Ca around 800mg/L
nitrate below 5mg/L
pH 7.9

CA should be around 450, pH should be around 8.2

I think his measurements are metric... I forget the conversion though

 

[insane916]

what kind of lights do you have on it?

 

[SIR PATRICK]

Looks like you could add another water pump of some kind, (40 gallons is alot to push with just the one powerhead) get your parameters in order, and tell us about your lighting info along with light cycle. That will all help get you where you need to be, and make placment suggestions possible.

A couple other things that I have found, besides those that have been previously stated-

Feed your tank heavy, but not to the point that your filters/skimmer cant handle. Dont want to polute your tank!

Random current- since switching to random flow vs. steady, always the same water current, I have noticed a vast improvment in my polyps growth.

Hope this info helps.

 

[insane916]

the way that the pump is angled i dont think there is any current flowing on the bottome left is there?

 

[650-IS350]

Yes polyps can extend their mat on the sand.