ZOOS Growing??????

[tens8273]

tough to say, but all specie are a bit different.

 

[tiburone9162003]

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i have try to hand feed my zoas,but they dont really grab any,but it looks like they growing fine,i only feed then oyster eggs n plankton mix... i used to keep the daylights on for 14 hours,but not i only do 7 hours then after moon lights come on the rest of the day/night..
i hear feeding zoas at night its the best time..

 

[geoxman]

this is interesting topic and reefjunkie is correct for the most part. I have to go into work but I will expound tomorrow sometime with what I think about feeding. good luck

And dirty water rocks for zoanthids about 7 hours of the day...then it is a slippery slope. JMHO

 

[strout]

I am as bad as you in getting my zoas to grow, and what has worked for me, I tend to over feed my fish and I have changed my weekly water changes to once every three weeks. My zoas have never looked better.

 

[FISHUNT-72]

I agree with reefjunkie.I have about 25 different zoas & palys.It seems zoas just close up when food is near.Palys on the other hand eat time and time again.All zoas and palys grow at different rates.Some seem to just survive while others if not kept in check will take over.Same goes for my rics and yumas.My purple/blue rics dominate over all other colors of rics.My yumas are just there,they don't show any growth.Back to the zoas.I just dose 2-part and add buffer to my top-off water.I think stable alkalinity is the key to zoa success.I've had a lot of zoas melt away before I dosed 2-part on a regular basis.Also lighting is important.MH or T-5's are the best:sad2:.PC's IMO are crap.Z's & P's tend to brown out and loose all their wow under these lights.

 

[Dave VG]

Not sure how you are making out with this but you want to bump your salinity up to 1.026 (35 pt) that is ideal for reef tanks.

 

[tiburone9162003]

Fishunt, what mean by 2 part dose?
I have t5's n they doing fine, but they on the sand, I was thinking on making a little egg stand to put then up little higher..

 

[mr.iacuessa]

i thought zoas were filter feeders? whenever any type of fish food lands on one of my zoas, they just close up...i do spot feed mine with microvert thoughand they have adjusted well, and ill be upgrading my lights from pc to t5 soon, i cant wait, im really excited... anyways, if a "zoa" is eating mysis, which is kinda big, maybe you should check to make sure you dont have a bad anemone colony like mojano, sometimes they look similar