Zoa/palys experts

[islandcreation]

I'm here in the Bay Area and its raining. I've been reading the forum, watching football and watching my tank all from my sofa. Here's some questions that I always wanted to ask but never got a chance to ask. I've been collecting zoa/palys for almost 5 years now and noticed/witnessed/read on alot of evidents that we face.

I have wild colonies and frags that were basically aquacultured by myself. I noticed I have more problems with wild colonies. I have 3 large show pieces for about 3-4 months. I noticed one of them is starting to shrivel up while everything else is doing great.

I also noticed that zoas/palys love crappy water. I say this due to experience. I have a 75 gallon tank with a skimmer, reactors refigium, RK2 etc... The tank is pretty much up there as far as keeping SPS's as far as water quailty. I noticed my jokers were doing good for 1 month in the tank then I saw them not opening up for 2 weeks or atleast half way open. I stuck them in a frag tank with no skimmer built in overflow with just rubble in the back, and cheato. I put the jokers in there and after 48 hours their opened up like none other?

I've been reading the forums on using vitamin C but I can't see myself turning off my skimmer or even taking out my carbon inorder for this to work. I really don't want to annoy any of my hard corals. If anyone has experienced something along the lines of what I experienced please chime in. From iodine dips to freshwater dips etc... I want to know other peoples secrets on what worked for them.

 

[Jeff]

I dont turn my skimmer off and I run carbon while dosing vitamin C like my friend Pufferpunk says. She started the thread on dosing the vitamin and its at 13 pages so far. The vitamin works. i have seen her tank and its unreal. I have used it for 3-4 weeks just to improve my tank and I have seen a difference in health, appearance, and growth in this short time.
Dont turn your skimmer off and dont remove carbon. Go to the store and buy some vitamin C. It cant hurt. Give it a month and you should see results.

 

[geoxman]

I do not use a skimmer nor carbon 24/7and I do use C. You have some very astute observations on wild coral that I would love to expound upon , but you should start a new and different thread as this one will go the C route. good luck

 

[Pufferpunk]

I also use Purigen & only turn off my skimmer overnight, after feeding 1-2x/week. I drop the C in after the Purigen/carbon, in my sump, in the last chamber, before the water is pumped back to the tank.