Topic of the Week - 03/14/11. What was your greatest challenge?

[SIR PATRICK]

A single polyp? No.

A colony? Many. Sometimes I had to take action, others I just left it alone. Melted most of the colony, and made a turn around to rebound, good as new.

I have saved a bunch, but lost many.....If possible, I learn somthing each time, for better or worse.

 

[XSharkboyX]

I would say my biggest challenge I have had with zoas/palys was trying to save a particular colony of blue zoas once.
Joe's Juice had just come out, and I was trying to eradicate a few glass amenones in my system... Big mistake...
Some got onto the blue zoa colony. It was game over. I tried for 2 weeks to save them, they just slowly melted... :mad2:
To this day I tell everyone to avoid using it.

 

[Friday Night]

TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!!! ok bud i still owe you an answer....

Minus the name game. I had a zoa that no matter what my levels were i mean if they were dead on and i would check dont get me wrong. No MATTER what that specific strain or zoa would melt. I guess you could say it was not a wives tale that zoa/strain was a true "melter" maybe it was never ment to be in captivity.

But i would take on the task to record my water chem. maintanice. location of the zoa. temp eveything. I would place it in different locations.. (i even had a handful of friends and we all each put that zoa in our tanks) mind you i had more than one
and she still would melt. I felt bad due to it dying all the time but it was a cool little experiment at the end of the day...

So i would have to say the biggest obstacle would be never knowing why she would melt.

GIVE THEM NOTHING BUT TAKE FROM THEM EVERYTHING!
(for the 300 fan)

 

[kichimark]

I would say my biggest challenge I have had with zoas/palys was trying to save a particular colony of blue zoas once.
Joe's Juice had just come out, and I was trying to eradicate a few glass amenones in my system... Big mistake...
Some got onto the blue zoa colony. It was game over. I tried for 2 weeks to save them, they just slowly melted... :mad2:
To this day I tell everyone to avoid using it.

oh man that is bad. Thanks for the heads up. I never used it and dont plan on it.

TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!!! ok bud i still owe you an answer....

Minus the name game. I had a zoa that no matter what my levels were i mean if they were dead on and i would check dont get me wrong. No MATTER what that specific strain or zoa would melt. I guess you could say it was not a wives tale that zoa/strain was a true "melter" maybe it was never ment to be in captivity.

But i would take on the task to record my water chem. maintanice. location of the zoa. temp eveything. I would place it in different locations.. (i even had a handful of friends and we all each put that zoa in our tanks) mind you i had more than one
and she still would melt. I felt bad due to it dying all the time but it was a cool little experiment at the end of the day...

So i would have to say the biggest obstacle would be never knowing why she would melt.

GIVE THEM NOTHING BUT TAKE FROM THEM EVERYTHING!
(for the 300 fan)

FRIDAYS IN THE HOUSE

Sometimes we will never know why some things don't make it. Maybe certain strains are more prone to allelopathy or some other minor thing we can't detect at this time.



ANYONE ELSE?

 

[Friday Night]

Dude how did you get that video of me dancing?

 

[XSharkboyX]

Lmao! :lmao:

 

[Jarred1]

This is kind of late but we are still in this week so... My hardest chalange was when I upgraded from a 10g to a 20 high. I let all the stuff settle then I put the corals in the new tank and stuff just slowly began to go down hill. So I finnally took what I had left and put them in my 20 long to save them. I left a few mushrooms in the 20 high to see when the tank was ready to add stuff back to it and now everything is doing just great!