Zoa growth

Personally I keep it simple. I Have a 29g CAD tank so full of zoos your head will spin. I DO NOT run a skimmer, have T-5 lighting and vary the bulbs each 6 months, do religious weekly water changes, no additives ever and feed a reasonable amount daily with a mix of Rod's reef, pellet and Reef Chili. I have a pretty hefty fish and bio-load too. I have noticed each colony is dramatically different though. I have a group of 12 different types that I bought 1-2 polyps of each at the same time and all reacted/grew at different rates. For example, the rastas have probably 100+ heads where as the purple hornets and salted agave only have 10 or so. I have a Jason Fox blood shot that took 6 months to grow its second head but then grew 10 in the next month. One thing I have noticed is that regardless of the zoo flavor, if I get them off the frag plug and on a piece of rubble rock, they seem to grow better. I base this off of personal experience with multiple different trials. In fact, I now make every effort to put new ones on the rock ASAP. With that being said, I have also had terrible luck a time or too. I bought about 10 different frags from a local reefer in Des Moines, all looked awesome in his tank and within 2 months, all died at my place. The only thing I can think of is that they get accustomed to their environment and the changes to the next must be dramatic enough to cause the massive die off. My personal 2 cents and experience.

 

I will vouch with Reeffified he does have one heck of a clean tank and his zoas go crazy in there.