Strange Coincidence

[Drix]

I picked up a frag of African Blue Hornets 2 weeks ago and placed em on the sandbed. Due to some dieoff I fragged the hornets into 3 pieces within a few days and placed them in 3 seperate places where they were doing fine until last thursday when they all closed up.


Since my other zoa's were fine I figured that it had something to do with the zoamelt and dip I placed them through after I fragged them. However, when I went back to the LFS I had purchased them from I had noticed that theirs had closed up as well- It was not something I'd expected and made me wonder if anyone has noticed their frag colonies have similar behavior as other colonies in different tanks.

 

[CrazyZoa]

Drix,

It is rare to hear of an African Blue Steel NOT melting. There seems to be an influx of African Blues right now. I have seen a couple online venders with big rocks of 100's of polyps for sale. When things come straight from the ocean into our tanks bad things are going to happen. Same thing with the Japanese deepwater craze from last year. Lots and lots of melt as they were not aquacultered much like you African Blues.

 

[Drix]

This frag origonally was on a pice of granite, which had made me hopeful that it was cultured and not wild harvested. I just thought it odd that they all did the same thing at the same time despite differences in tanks.

 

[826 moto]

they melt alot but the ones that make are sweet

mine melted to

 

[90greefman]

Yep, mine melted too. Need to wait for the aquacultured ones.

 

[mfinn]

This frag origonally was on a pice of granite, which had made me hopeful that it was cultured and not wild harvested. I just thought it odd that they all did the same thing at the same time despite differences in tanks.

most of them do come in from the wild on granite like rock.

many will melt at around the 3 week mark.

 

[Drix]

I would have thought they'd be on something more like live rock. Interesting

 

[Akwarius]

High light and high flow are key for ABH

 

[rogersb]

I keep mine high. I hear higher flow is working for most, but mine are in low flow. Probably next to no flow. I've had them for around 4 months in that place with a small die off then tremendous growth.

 

[Drix]

Gonna move a powerhead but I think they're goners at this point -.-