Gluing zoas to snails?

[19Mateo83]

Just curious if anyone has glued zoas to a snail yet…. Because I just did . I had a few polyps floating around my tank so I figured why not make a wandering zoa garden. Can anyone think of a down side to this?

 

[Patx]

random results

 

[dilligaf2929]

pic ?

 

[19Mateo83]

pic ?

I will once they open back up…. Right now it just looks like he’s got antenna on his head.. I put two Valentine’s Day massacre on him .

 

[nanofordad]

Oh man. I’m trying this w some GSP.

 

[Euphylliaphyle]

Mobile palytoxin delivery vehicle? What could go wrong? There may be a clause about this in the Geneva Convention.

 

[19Mateo83]

These are the best pictures I can get at the moment… he’s up behind the top band.

 

[KrisReef]

Snails and other mobile inverts that get a case of the hitchhikers are genearlly doomed in the wild as the excess growth eventually weighs them down or snags them up in the environment where the starve from immobility or get eaten by predators.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Oh man. I’m trying this w some GSP.

I’ve had this happen before but with an urchin. Had a gsp that got attached to an urchin and started to grow on it. Eventually it fell off and grew in a random section on my tank.

 

[Reginald Reefer III]

I have urchins with large zoa colonies wondering around my tank. Once in awhile a couple will fall off and start a new patch in random places in the tank. It's not very colorful zoas either which is kind of a bummer. Too bad it wasn't stratosphere's that are doing that.

 

[19Mateo83]

Here he is in all his zoa coated shell glory

 

[Euphylliaphyle]

Here he is in all his zoa coated shell glory

Sailing two sheets to the wind!

 

[Awesome Opossum]

Ive got a little cluster of 3-4 polyps of Utter Chaos drifting around. Ive been playing with this idea for about two weeks then see this post. I gotta do it now! I was going to do it to a turbo snail.

 

[19Mateo83]

I did another one today. The snails and zoas don’t seem to mind and it’s a nice little splash of color in random places.

 

[StartingATank]

I might try this. The only thing I could think of a downside is if the snails go into dark areas for a while. I wonder what pulsing Xenia or branching gsp would do. What about cyphastrea?

 

[19Mateo83]

I would think anything with a calcium skeleton may eventually hender the snails. I wouldn’t trust Xenia in my tank so not sure on that one…. Gsp may be a good one to try.