Zoa creeping

[yellowtail]

How do all of you control zoa colonies creeping off its "specified" rock and onto the main rock structure? More specifically speaking,creeping towards large rocks that cannot be removed for easy removal?

Thanks! :fish1:

 

[MUCHO REEF]

Unforutanely, you can't, however if you have achieved such rapid growth that it has become an issue for you, that's a good thing my friend and congrats.:thumbsup:

Zoanthids reproduce both sexually and asexually with the later being the most dominate form of reproduction. The very best thing you can do is isolate your zoanthid colonies by not allowing them to touch other rocks in/on your reef. All you need is about a 3/16" to a 1/4" gap and they will cover that rock alone until the touch the substrate. This small gap has worked wonders for me over the years if I wanted to isolate growth to one rock. Place small chips of rock if you'd like around the base of this rock and they will migrate onto these small rock chips and you can then sell, trade etc these frags.

Hope this helps my friend and the best of luck with your tank.


Mucho Reef

PS. You have to watch those polyps though as they can extend over to those nearby rocks even with spacing and take off like you wouldn't believe.

 

[MrHarvard]

Keep fragging and trade away! Wish i had this problem!

 

[rogersb]

Wow. Seven years and finally made his first post. He'll be able to see the classifieds in about 340 years give or take.

 

[Lytehouse]

Unforutanely, you can't, however if you have achieved such rapid growth that it has become an issue for you, that's a good thing my friend and congrats.:thumbsup:

Zoanthids reproduce both sexually and asexually with the later being the most dominate form of reproduction. The very best thing you can do is isolate your zoanthid colonies by not allowing them to touch other rocks in/on your reef. All you need is about a 3/16" to a 1/4" gap and they will cover that rock alone until the touch the substrate. This small gap has worked wonders for me over the years if I wanted to isolate growth to one rock. Place small chips of rock if you'd like around the base of this rock and they will migrate onto these small rock chips and you can then sell, trade etc these frags.

Hope this helps my friend and the best of luck with your tank.


Mucho Reef

PS. You have to watch those polyps though as they can extend over to those nearby rocks even with spacing and take off like you wouldn't believe.

I really like this idea. It's simple and doesn't require moving any rock around in the tank.

 

[yellowtail]

Wow. Seven years and finally made his first post. He'll be able to see the classifieds in about 340 years give or take.

LOL. Not true!

I had close to 1,000 posts around 2004 and came back this year to all of them vanished :uhoh2:. Fell off the hobby for a little while and have just recently began accessing the account again!

 

[MUCHO REEF]

I really like this idea. It's simple and doesn't require moving any rock around in the tank.

Glad you like it. It's what I have preferred for many years. I hate yanking mother colonies in and out of my tank and reef. The rock chips work like a charm.

Mooch