Will zoas kill acros?

[.Chris.]

Not pallys, just regular zoa polyps. I recently decided to de-flubber my reef, so I removed everything and as much of the zoas as I could, but they didn't really all come off, so I decided to putty over them. It looks god awful though, and is making my skimmer go bananas. If I just left them and glued in acros on top of the zoas (or in the middle of them), is it going to cause any issues?

 

[FF337]

I have had zoas almost climbing acros with no ill effects. However if they crowd the base that part will be shaded out and possibly die there.

 

[nemodan]

I have Zoas and some palies around my SPS and Acro and they are all OK. But not all palies are good.

I saw you killing the green Zoas and I feel so bad because I lost all my green Zoas in the SPS tank. In general they will not growth OK but I have ones brownish that are growing very well.

Cheers
Daniel

 

[.Chris.]

They're growing just fine! Too fine if you ask me. But if you say they won't bother the sps I might remove the putty as its a horrible eyesore.

 

[nemodan]

Some months old picture. See zoas with this 2 acros.

Those zoas are almost gone by now. The red planet grew over most of them. I am looking for a picture I have showing that.

 

[nemodan]

Here is the picture. See the red planet encrusting/growing over the zoa. Zoom is and look the base. The zoa is being engulfed/cover by the acro.

 

[nemodan]

And he continued growing and covering the zoas. See the encrusting base on the green acro side. Zoom the picture.

 

[nemodan]

These palies are OK. Do not kill the acro tissue. But grow very fast so to avoid them covering that small SSC frag, I keep cutting them with a razor.

 

[nemodan]

A more recent picture of the Red,Planet (December 2015) . See there are almost no zoa left. He grew over many.

Now see the zoas near the green sps (upper left of the picture). Those are spreading well. I like those too. They are cheap and give a touch.



A b d in the bottom right you see the red ones. They are not yet touching any Acro. VERY SLOW growers. But they are touching a piece of the big purple cap/montipora that felt there are is growing. They are great friends....LOL

 

[nemodan]

The point is that the water quality isn't the most appropriate for zoa growing, so it is not easy for me to grow zoas in my tank.

Palies is a diferentes issue. I had some green ones that by touching the SPS the SPS tissue was affected. So far I have 2 palies species that are doing good . One pictured previously.

But zoas I was told by and old ACRO reefer of the area that they are good. And he has his display tank with a lot of zoas growing in between the acros. So far, as you saw in my pictures, I do not have any issue with the zoas. Unfortunately my small green zoa garden disappeared slowly. If I find a small rock or a plug with them I will try to reintroduce it.

Cheers and good luck with your decision, whatever it will be.

Daniel

 

[.Chris.]

Thanks so much for the info Dan.