My little collection

ACBlinky

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I'm planning to stock my new 90g with many different coloured zoas, and today I found two pretty little colonies at the LFS. The collection is small, but growing, so I thought I'd share what I have so far. These are all cropped from larger shots, sorry for the blurriness. Enjoy! :D

This is an old pic under NO fluorescents. There are slow-growing greens in between the chocolate brown zoas w/ orange mouths. I frag the browns regularly, they grow like crazy.
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There are a couple subtly different colour variations in this little colony. They tend to frag themselves -- they get too dense, and a clump of polyps will come loose and reattach elsewhere.
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This colony started from a little frag of 5 polyps, and I lost a ton of them to a Xanthid crab a few months back. I can barely tell now, all the bald spots are growing in; these guys seem to grow when I'm not looking!
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These little guys (near the middle) hitchhiked in on a new piece of LR I bought a few weeks ago:
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My favourite pinks, much prettier in person. They were also LR hitchhikers.
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These grew from a couple tiny rescued polyps floating around the bottom of a LR tank at the LFS where I used to work:
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Picked these up today. Some are more blue, some more green, and I think they're just gorgeous.
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Got these today as well. They look pretty miserable, I'm hoping they'll perk up.
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All pics but the first taken under 10K halides with T5 actinics.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8603970#post8603970 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dc_909
They definately have potential to color up nicely.
Here's hoping! I just got the MH fixture, and I'm working on acclimating everything over from 5x96W PCs (2 actinic, 1 10K, 2 12K) to 2x400W MH with 2x54W HO T5 actinics. It's a big shift, and I'm sure I'll see some interesting colour changes over the next couple months. Under actinics tonight the turquoise colony showed something unexpected -- some of the polyps' faces looked yellow, others looked very blue. There are definitely two colours mixed together, it'll be neat to see how/if they change.

drummereef - thanks! I'm just starting to catch 'zoa fever', hopefully I'll be adding some frags of more interesting colours over the next few months. My original goal with this tank was to go with all or mostly zoanthids and end up with a garden bursting with colour :)
 
Re: My little collection

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8603573#post8603573 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ACBlinky
I frag the browns regularly, they grow like crazy.

All browns usually do... lol :D Nice pics though great start... I like the yellows...
 
Thanks for the feedback guys! The yellowish colony looks much better today. I took a look into the tank last night with a flashlight and, despite inspecting the zoas VERY carefully before adding them to my tank, it appears I missed a nasty little hitchhiker! There was a crab about 1/2" across (including all his legs) sitting on a zoa munching away. Ugh! Luckily I managed to grab him and toss him into the fuge before he knew what was happening, but he did get a good pinch in -- for such a small critter, he's pretty feisty! Not sure if it was a result of removing the crab or just allowing them more time to settle in, but they definitely looked more relaxed today.

I'll keep taking pictures, I know that zoas can sometimes go through very interesting colour transformations with changes in lighting, can't wait to see what the zoa colour fairy brings me for Christmas :)
 
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