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yea i seem to have that problem myself trying to get these zoas to grow somemore than others such as the rastas and the sunny d's but lately my sunny d's have taken off hopeing the rastas will follow
 
jr973 said:
yea i seem to have that problem myself trying to get these zoas to grow somemore than others such as the rastas and the sunny d's but lately my sunny d's have taken off hopeing the rastas will follow
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my sunny d's are some of the strangest zoas ive kept... they seem to be extremely finicky in my tank... im not sure if there is something wrong or not... they seem to grow, but hardly open at times... in 3 months, i went from 1 to 8 polyps, but like i said, they dont seem happy and i cant understand it... very strange...
 
Tbare89 said:
Are those tubbs blues? How is the growth rate on them?
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those are tubbs blues in the first post... however i no longer have them... i started with about 10 polyps in May... that pic was taken the first week of september to give you an idea of the growth rate...
 
ive been needing to mount the orange bam bams and candy apple reds on larger tiles so they could grow out nicer, so i did that today, and as the red hornets and rastas were almost there too, i jus did them all on larger 4x4 tiles made of natural, tumbled rock... once the zoas all grow out to the edge of these, they will go one a 6x6 tile... I will not be fragging these zoas ever... my goal is to have one of the largest rasta colonies seen ;)

also, i have noticed some algae as well as small string like hydroids growing in between alot of my zoas... so today, i went and bought a small pair of tweezers, and a soft tooth brush, and went ahead and literally groomed all the zoas lol... i picked out the hydroids and brushed the brown algae that was growing... and then that is when i mounted all the zoas on the larger tiles... here are a few pics of what they looked like after, all closed up and upset lol, but they will thank me tomorrow, lol...


the bam bams...

<a href="http://s906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/Pallobi11/System%20October%202011/?action=view&current=IMAG1502.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/Pallobi11/System%20October%202011/IMAG1502.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

rastas...

<a href="http://s906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/Pallobi11/System%20October%202011/?action=view&current=IMAG1504.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/Pallobi11/System%20October%202011/IMAG1504.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

red hornets...

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and the candy apple reds, which are now in the front row as shown in the post above...

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who would have ever thought i would be "grooming" my zoas, lol... but i am glad i did...
 
and jus to give an idea of the number of rastas and red hornets, the following is a close up of them both closed up, respectively... mind you, those rastas started as 5 in May, and now i count over 70... so much for being a slow grower ;)

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i have been trying to get a rasta zoa for i dont know how long but i refuse to pay what people are asking for it over here. call me cheap but i think i would shoot myself if i pay $50 for a head and it die on me a couple of days later. maybe a years back when the times werent as rough. much luck to you with your colonies, they are beautiful! :clown:
 
red hornets...

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sunny d's...

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candy apple reds...

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rastas...

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rose nebulas...

<a href="http://s906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/Pallobi11/System%20December%202011/?action=view&current=IMAG1706.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/Pallobi11/System%20December%202011/IMAG1706.jpg" border="0" alt="Uploaded from the Photobucket Android App"></a>

orange bam bams...

<a href="http://s906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/Pallobi11/System%20December%202011/?action=view&current=IMAG1694.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i906.photobucket.com/albums/ac268/Pallobi11/System%20December%202011/IMAG1694.jpg" border="0" alt="Uploaded from the Photobucket Android App"></a>
 
Do you have trouble getting the zoas to spread from the frag plug to the tiles? I like using the tiles, but find my zoas spread much quikers on flat live rock or even clam shells.
 
johnny said:
Do you have trouble getting the zoas to spread from the frag plug to the tiles? I like using the tiles, but find my zoas spread much quikers on flat live rock or even clam shells.
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no troubles at all... they actually grow very fast once they settle in and get used to my system, light and flow etc... those rastas started as 5 in May, there is now about 100... and those red hornets started as 2 in June, there is now over 50...

this doesnt mean they all grow like that, but the ones ive had for a bit really start to multiply the more they grow... the outer grow edge all around gets bigger as the colonies enlarge, so there are more growing the larger it gets... its pretty cool... the last 10 to 12 weeks, some of them have really grown in numbers... ill try to get some dated progression shots for everyone who might be interested :)
 
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