What happens when you just let them grow???
- Thread starter MUCHO REEF
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Heya Mucho!
They can be collected like that from the ocean floor. But they also occur like this:
-Who Dah?
Not sure what you were trying to tell me there.
They are indeed collected as small, med, large and huge rocks. My goal in creating this thread was to showcase large colonies which we seldom see. Many people new to the hobby believe that they are collected as frags and some truly never knew they grew to large size colonies.
Heya Mucho! I just wanted to point out that they occur in huge colonies on the ocean floor (as you had mentioned in the first thread) as well as onesie-twosie on the ocean floor too for the benefit of those that didn't know otherwise. I didn't want folks to have the impression that they always occurred in huge colonies on the ocean floor.
That previously posted photo in particular is one of my favorites for such an example. It was shot at about 35-40 feet deep in the Florida Keys (I believe off Marathon, I forget now). But the significance is that it was this singular, bright, rainbow colored (Paly?) polyp (in the middle of the photo) surrounded by onesie-twosie zoanthids that were black (or very dark purple) with yellow ring and silver center.
Of course, very near to that onsie-twosie shot it is what you were referencing in the first post. Looking through my photos, looks like I didn't take any wide-range shots of colonies, but one saw this blue with yellow center morph Zoa in colonies several feet wide :
That previously posted photo in particular is one of my favorites for such an example. It was shot at about 35-40 feet deep in the Florida Keys (I believe off Marathon, I forget now). But the significance is that it was this singular, bright, rainbow colored (Paly?) polyp (in the middle of the photo) surrounded by onesie-twosie zoanthids that were black (or very dark purple) with yellow ring and silver center.
Of course, very near to that onsie-twosie shot it is what you were referencing in the first post. Looking through my photos, looks like I didn't take any wide-range shots of colonies, but one saw this blue with yellow center morph Zoa in colonies several feet wide
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i2as kass
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Now I can't say I never frag em, but most of my frags go right back into the same tank to start other colonies.
I would love to say I feel your pain Mucho but it's a whole different market up here in Western Canada. All we really have access to is colonies and at fairly good prices to boot, that being said allot of the very high end pallys that I see here are not available for sale.
My favorite thing about zoas is picking up a colony for $50.00 and then watching it color up into something like this:
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I know, isn't that strange? Why don't you share with us why that is.
Mucho Reef
mbattles22
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Sorry, what are snowflakes? I have been growing several colonies of different zoas, that were doing great. All of a sudden two colonies, on different sides of the tank started not opening then disingtegrated (sp?), leaving big holes in the colony. Not all of the zoas died in these colonies and other zoas throughout the tank are fine. Any thoughts?
Michele
i2as kass
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I'm sure some facet of supply and demand, although the market is large up here it's nothing close to what you folks have down south. Lower demand equates to lower prices, we also have some pretty wicked LFS up here.
GrouperGenius
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Personally one of my favorite tanks...my 75...
meatball87
tang freak
Bradleyj that's a huge colony
Oh it's so nice to see big colonies as opposed to single polyps.
GrouperGenius
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Nice color combos frctlimg. I love how zoas grow so close together.
Jsingh
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sweet growth pics
This is what happens when you don't frag.
I started this colony over 3 years ago with 6 polyps.
And now today.
GrouperGenius
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IME,usually they (zoanthids) kinda stop spreading for the most part. The palythoas are more apt to overgrow the smaller zoanthids.
xxtriggermanxx
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picture of my last tank before the upgrade
