share some pics people!

[smy168]

Just looking for pics of mixed colonies of zoos blended together on one rock or rockwork areas and I figured no one will have it like you guys(and gals) over here. I wanted to start mixing some colonies together for a rainbow effect.

thanks

 

[Azurel]

I will be seperating these eventully because I don't want the red rings to get beat out.

Here is another pic of them....

 

[smy168]

those are cool, what do you mean "beat out"? Are specific colonies more dominant than others?

 

[Azurel]

Yes some are, it's not that you can tell by color but as the colony gets older this color or that color will slowly disappear. Usually there will be a dominant strain in each mixed colony, and when you have some really cool ones then you will want to separate them so they can spread also. I will take some pictures tomorrow of some I separated this weekend and you''ll see why I wanted to seperate them.

 

[Reef Junkie]

Yep, when you mix colonies of seperate zoas, one of the colony's will eventually overgrow and kill the other.
It's inevitable.
FYI, if you have two seperate colonies the dominant one will not change the color of the less dominant one. As mentioned above, it just kills it.

 

[impur]

 

[Reef Junkie]

Awesome, lets see what they look like in 6 months to a year.

 

[Azurel]

fragged off

fragged off

Here some that I had to frag off because they were being over taken by some white centered ones.....

Here are the white ones that as you can see the reds are mixed in, when I first bought this rock the reds were 3-1 on the whites.Over the last 6-9 months they have been getting more and more whites and less and less reds.

 

[smy168]

azurel, how did you frag them?

 

[Azurel]

I took a chisel and where the reds were conglomerated I broke the rock there. I figured that the reds that are still mixed in with the whites will have to fend for themselves. The rock itself was only about 3-4 inch's, the polyps of each zoanthid are really small, smaller then the size of a pea. I might cut a few off the side in the next few days to get a differant frag going so I have a few differant frags to start.

 

[Reef Junkie]

Azurel, you're getting your monies worth out of that chisel!
These can be fun too, just get goggles!

 

[oceana]

Here's my favorite one

 

[Azurel]

LOL....thanks Reef Junkie I thought about getting a set of those. Probably a little easier to handle, little more precise.

 

[gflat65]

 

[Reef Junkie]

They're a bit expensive, but worth it. You still have to rinse and dry them well, they will still rust!
In fact, I have two colonies growing into each other now. They have to be separated. All of the others that I had mixed have done their deed and killed the other zoas.

The ones at the top of this colony killed the two below.

The orange (super nova) ones at the center of this photo killed the greens.

It took 6 months for this to happen and by the time I tried to save the few polyps that were left, it was too late.

 

[twon8]

 

[mfinn]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7104711#post7104711 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reef Junkie
Azurel, you're getting your monies worth out of that chisel!
These can be fun too, just get goggles!

Where did you get that tool?