4k Video of my Zoa & Paly Tank
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Thats what they look like if you wear orange glasses or put a filter on your camera... I didnt do any editing, just used the Polyp Lab v2 clip on filter. I actually grow them under full blues and dont have any white lights, so no I cant... My SPS and LPS tanks I run white lights on but zoas just look so much better on full blues with glasses on, so thats how I record them. But in all honesty, with some glasses on thats exactly what they look like.
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Absolutely insane! Everything's looking great. I thought I had a lot (140+). Wish I had some of the strains you have!
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For now just the frag tank, but I have a IM Nuvo 25 Lagoon that will soon be my zoa display tank. It will be a few months though as Im currently using it as a QT tank for acropora.
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Holy s#!@, your collection rocks dude. Enthusiast like yourself helps to motivate other Reefers to move forward regardless of the trouble some of us have faced with our tanks. Thanks for posting, I needed that this morning with my coffee. [emoji106]
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Thanks for the kind words everyone!!! Yesterday/Today I fragged the tank. I made 475 multipolyp frags and I’m maybe half way thru.. I filled half my 80g frag tank with frags! Super stoked to use them to trade. End game is to own every single dang zoa that’s hot on the market.
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You have a really excellent collection- really nice to see some big colonies growing in. You didn't mention these guys. Are they incinerators or something else?
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You have a really excellent collection- really nice to see some big colonies growing in. You didn't mention these guys. Are they incinerators or something else?
You got it, rainbow incinerators. One of the first I ever got and definitely one of my favorites. Ive probably made 1000 polyps in two years, they grow insanely well in my tank.
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That is absolutely not the case. Zoas are finnicky jerks, and the more varieties you keep in the same tank the more often you will see melts or unhappy specimens.. Dont be discouraged. I asked alot of zoa people that exact same question. Some went as far as to show me buckets filled with empty plugs. The secret is to make as many frags and grow out pieces as possible and have them spread throughout as many systems and friends as possible, so if you melt something, its not the only one. I try to have 3 full colonies before I cut frags for trade/sell/share/gift.. I will frag up one colony, take one of the frags from that colony to restart a growout and distribute the rest. Some zoas melt when they are too densely on a single plug, others melt when you cut them, some melt for lord knows what reason. People always say acros are delicate and require care, but I loose zoas far more often than acros.
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That said there are things to do to keep zoas happy. Basting them clean on a regular basis, having good flow, having the right zoas in the right light, using chemiclean when you see things acting weird, having furan, lugols, seachem reef dip, hydrogen peroxide, revive, etc on hand. Brushing plugs clean of algae, having green or yellow coris wrasses to manage any potential pests that could pop up, keeping them free of aiptasia, etc... the more time you look at them and care for them, the less melting you will have... which is weird cus you sorta aren't doing anything, you just have to watch them and be proactive.
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