So are zoos ok in the tank?

[panic]

Will zoos jack with my stonies? I have been adding little ones in the cracks and on the bottom of the tank just for fun. Someone was like "Woah! You have $%!!*!! ZOOS in there!"

Does it matter?

 

[jay24k]

No, but I'd keep em seperate as they will overgrow sps quickly.

 

[Michael7979]

IF I was to put zoas in a sps tank they would have to be on an island to keep them away from sps'.

 

[PL-Reef]

just give the space. i have alot of each in my reef.

 

[panic]

So I don't need to worry about anything in the water column as far as chemical war?

 

[jay24k]

Nope. Mainly leathers I have seen do that. I did end up getting rid of all my zoos except PPE's in my 180. Now they are in my wife's.

 

[panic]

I think I'll keep them low and in the caves

 

[bboats]

I have some crowding around the base of my sps for about six month but it hasnt killed any yet, do they sting? How would you remove?

 

[jay24k]

I don't think they sting as least mine never did. But they do prevent the base from growing. Only way I could remove was to remove the rock and replace it with a bare one. Bust up the rock into smaller pieces and sell some or keep em seperate.

 

[ReefHoBo]

I have my zoos with my sps and they are perfectly fine

 

[bboats]

Yeah i havent had any issues yet......

 

[jay24k]

I don't think you will have issues however I am just giving a warning. Some zoos do not die. They keep coming back like Freddy Krueger! If they get out of hand, they are almost impossible to kill. I had mine go over 2 rocks and surround a base of a sps. IMO, the larger base a coral has, the larger it seems to spread out. Not all are like this but many are.

I love zoos but after about 6 months of thinking the same, I had to tear apart half my reef to get rid of the zoos off my structure.

 

[DaddyJax]

Zoos are perfectly fine. The only ones that I know of that cause any problems are the yellow sun polyps.

 

[Frankysreef]

hairy rhodactis will kill sps... and damn hard to get rid of.

 

[mecold]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8015677#post8015677 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jay24k
I don't think you will have issues however I am just giving a warning. Some zoos do not die. They keep coming back like Freddy Krueger! If they get out of hand, they are almost impossible to kill.

I agree with this. I have some apparently "super rare" and latley expensive palythoas that have been crowding my purple tip nana for a while. I have yanked the polyps off leaving no noticable zoa flesh only to have three more polyps where there was previously only one. I have noticed the base looking rough due to light being blocked, but no stinging.

Yellow polyps though, they are the devil incarnate. They will kill anything they touch, including xenia

JMHO
Paul