NyReefNoob
skimmer freak
well 6 years or so ago i started my first reef after a 10 yr mia and back then i wouldnt have called it a reef lol pair of clowns and a anenome stuck in my window with some crappy pc lighting and a hob filter,
well after moving to NY from the midwest { man i miss the country accents } i got into keeping cichlads, and just kept seeing all the reefs at the store and all the zoa's they use to get in, 50-100 polyp colonies for 35-65 and the really nice colonies were maybe $85 so after a talk with my fiance and getting the go ahead my fw tank went out the door and in came a 29g system with hob fuge hob skimmer and so on, and off i was in collecting zoa's till i ran out of room with the colonies, fortunate early on in the hobby i found my local online forum MR and met a few decent honest reefers. learnt what frags were so i started to beg my lfs to frag some of the zoa colonies so i could buy more and more of them lol and started to frag some of my colonies just so i could get more different morphs into my tank.
well fast forward 6 years and i am still into them as much as back then but also got the colored stick bug as my current tank is half zoa half sps. i have cut back alot on my zoa's and think i am down to just 25 morphs.
over the years id say i have had atleast 200 different morphs and use to love finding the bland one's just to see what they would turn into, personally i think the most i ever paid for a zoa was 3 polyps of darth mauls and i paid $50 for those and have done that 3 or 4 times with different one's. i almost have to laugh now days seeing a single polyp sell for $50+ with the rate they grow i could have retired if i was into doing this. if you need a macro lense and led to see what it really looks like then it isnt worth paying crazy money for, my friends dont come over and say hey let me see the magnifying glass to check those out. im am by no means against the names for them as it is nice to say a name and know which morph is being talked about, but that same zoa wont look the same in everyone's tank.
well i guess to sum it up why i got into zoa's was just all the different colors and the way they grew like carpet over my rocks, one day i will do a all zoa tank again, hmmm maybe i could just start putting them all in my seahorse tank.
well after moving to NY from the midwest { man i miss the country accents } i got into keeping cichlads, and just kept seeing all the reefs at the store and all the zoa's they use to get in, 50-100 polyp colonies for 35-65 and the really nice colonies were maybe $85 so after a talk with my fiance and getting the go ahead my fw tank went out the door and in came a 29g system with hob fuge hob skimmer and so on, and off i was in collecting zoa's till i ran out of room with the colonies, fortunate early on in the hobby i found my local online forum MR and met a few decent honest reefers. learnt what frags were so i started to beg my lfs to frag some of the zoa colonies so i could buy more and more of them lol and started to frag some of my colonies just so i could get more different morphs into my tank.
well fast forward 6 years and i am still into them as much as back then but also got the colored stick bug as my current tank is half zoa half sps. i have cut back alot on my zoa's and think i am down to just 25 morphs.
over the years id say i have had atleast 200 different morphs and use to love finding the bland one's just to see what they would turn into, personally i think the most i ever paid for a zoa was 3 polyps of darth mauls and i paid $50 for those and have done that 3 or 4 times with different one's. i almost have to laugh now days seeing a single polyp sell for $50+ with the rate they grow i could have retired if i was into doing this. if you need a macro lense and led to see what it really looks like then it isnt worth paying crazy money for, my friends dont come over and say hey let me see the magnifying glass to check those out. im am by no means against the names for them as it is nice to say a name and know which morph is being talked about, but that same zoa wont look the same in everyone's tank.
well i guess to sum it up why i got into zoa's was just all the different colors and the way they grew like carpet over my rocks, one day i will do a all zoa tank again, hmmm maybe i could just start putting them all in my seahorse tank.
They are particularly my hubby's favorite.
