Looking for input from the Zoanthid guru`s.

I love Zoanthids, but I've never had much luck getting them to grow out with the exception of Dragon Eye's and BamBams which both seemed to do OK. Most of the time, it seems like a get frag of zoa's and they never multiply, or they never even open and eventually disappear.


I picked up 3 frags at Fall Fest. I believe they are Sunny D's, Armor of the God's and another that I don't have a name for. The Sunny D's and the unnamed ones are opening, but the AotG's won't open fully.


I can generally grow SPS with no problems at all, but what am I doing wrong on the Zoanthid front?


-JB

 

Ok, that is something I've considered. I've always had pretty good water quality and never had an issue with most SPS. I've been feeding a lot more than I usually do since I got back from fall fest. I'm going to try sacrificing water quality in the short term to make sure there's plenty of food in the tank.

How big is your tank and how often/much do you feed the Reef Chili?

Thanks

-JB

 

Ok, thanks for the info. I have a ton of club DIY food in my freezer. I think I'm going to try and use that for now along with reef chili and another powder based food I have.

 

I also just rediscovered something that has been buried in my freezer for a long, long time: Frozen Cyclop-ezee. Fish and corals go nuts for the stuff. I can't believe I forgot about that! Going to have to get some more soon as I just have a little bit left.

 

Yeah, SPS can be pretty easy. That's why I'm being pretty selective about what I put in my tank this time around. No cap, slimer or anything else that grows too rapidly and pulls all the calcium out of the water. I'm going to try and stick slower growing rare stuff.

Now that I'm feeding the tank a bit more (alternating between DIY Frozen, Reef Chili and Cyclop-eeze) the new zoa's are all wide open. The acan I picked up at fall fest is also looks great. I've been feeding some cyclop-eeze to my nano as well and the corals in there are really responding well. I swear my blasto's double in size after I feed it.