Zoanthid & Palythoa Photographs/Tanks/Videos

[Fishface1970]

Most zoas haven't done well in my tank, but these guys are doing great so far

 

[Nikky.Werr]

My zoas!

My zoas!

I have a 50g dt with 30g sump that gets fed 3 times a week with a mixture of coral frenzy, selcon, a frozen preparation I make and marine snow. I began feeding daily to bring some specimens "back to life" after they arrived and were acclimated but have cut back to 3xweek.
My lighting consists of generic brand LED's with dimmers and these pictures were taken with the blue led's at 80% capacity, white/red/purple at 0%.
For flow I have two 800 gph powerheads and the return pipe from the sump that has an output of 700 gph.
These are zoanthids I purchased not long ago as two large colonies on separate rocks and a few single ones on plugs. The rest are hard to get clearer pictures of since they look up directly at the lights making only sideshots of their stalks possible.
PH 8.1, 0 Ammonia, 0 Nitrite, <5 Nitrate, 0 Phosphate, Ca 430, KH about 10.
Pictures taken with a Nikon D7000 60mm macro lens.

 

[Rusland07]

What is the overall rating of difficulty to successfully grow these in my tank? I brought two Mars LED fixtures and my water is 0 TDS. I like these because of their vibrant colors, but at the same time, I have no idea where to place them if i get them (in fear of bleaching them).

 

[paul87]

What is the overall rating of difficulty to successfully grow these in my tank? I brought two Mars LED fixtures and my water is 0 TDS. I like these because of their vibrant colors, but at the same time, I have no idea where to place them if i get them (in fear of bleaching them).

I have a buddy that users the 300w Mars Aqua over his zoa frag tank with great results. As long as you keep you parameters stable and keep up with the water change they should do great! Different zoas like different light, but IME low to med in tank is best.

 

[that Fish Guy]

These two are starting to take off.

What are the Yellow ones in Pic #2 Called?

 

[dcmatranga]

some of these pics are insane...

 

[paul87]

What are the Yellow ones in Pic #2 Called?

Kryptonites. Actually a bright green.

 

[paul87]

Some updated zoa shots.

 

[oldreefer76]

Crappy I-Phone pic of Candy Apple Reds

 

[paul87]

A couple new additions. Lemon Lasers & Sunny D!

Lemon Lasers (I think)

Sunny D

Zoa Garden under actinics

 

[MCC]

 

[raven312]

I would love to know what these are. They're very fluorescent under the blue LEDs. It's taken them 3 weeks to start opening (EVERYTHING that I put in at that time and since are open) but I remained patient and just let them do their thing. They look like they will be very beautiful when they finally do join the party.

 

[Clown99]

The photos are awesome. I can't stop looking at Zoas. I love them.

 

[coltrref]

others

zoas shot by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

hot shot 3 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

pdf Vampire by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

zoas bs by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11283 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

glitter bomb2 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11272 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11262 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11256 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11249 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

 

[coltrref]

more

Imagen 265 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

Imagen 271 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

Imagen 171 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

Imagen 215 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

speckled zoas by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

palythoa PE by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11151 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

DSC_0100 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

 

[coltrref]

SDC11133 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11140 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11146 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11149 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11123 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11121 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11117 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11112 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11106 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11104 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

 

[coltrref]

SDC11092 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11101 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11072 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC11042 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC10976 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC10954 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC10949 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC10941 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC10940 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

Palythoa eating

SDC10771 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

 

[coltrref]

SDC10806 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC10794 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

SDC10783 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

_DSC0429 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

_DSC0422 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

_DSC0412 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

CSC0706 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

Goblins-Fire by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

_CSC0272 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

_CSC0323 by alejandro sahuaya, en Flickr

 

[Go.Fish]

 

[minhdh]

Does anyone know what this is?

Does anyone know what this is?

I just bought this from my LFS. I'm not sure what it is that is growing (greyish purple area), is it more zoanthids or something else? Please help!