High Light Zoas?

[PicassoClown04]

Looking for some suggestions for zoas that like a high-light environment. I’m redoing an SPS tank and would like to keep the light, but it is a very powerful Hydra over a shallow peninsula tank. I tried Mohican Suns and they will not open unless completely shaded due to the high intensity lighting. Anybody have any ideas?

 

[Oscar47f]

Utter chaos like higher light, I grow my bow tie blasters, KH sun bursts, nirvanas, Pandora’s, and snoz berries, under higher light I also have a hydra 26 JF at 70% over a 50 lagoon... you should be able to adjust your hydra accordingly and rent a par meter to make sure you’re not gonna burn things

 

[old salt reefer]

I've got Mohican suns just off center about 6" down under a Prime 16HD. Other than going from a orange to a yellow they're growing well. I've got King Midis and Bam Bams a lot closer they're doing well too.

 

[pochaxoo]

Interesting on the lighting requirements on specific zoa's, do you get the impression they all just flexible with adaptation to various light conditions or do you think there are certain ones that do better under more light than less? I am noticing the WWC guidance for the Zoa's I just got from them are recommending high intensity lighting second only to acros. Do you think this is where they have them and why they get the colors they show?

 

[PicassoClown04]

Interesting on the lighting requirements on specific zoa's, do you get the impression they all just flexible with adaptation to various light conditions or do you think there are certain ones that do better under more light than less? I am noticing the WWC guidance for the Zoa's I just got from them are recommending high intensity lighting second only to acros. Do you think this is where they have them and why they get the colors they show?

Honestly, I think that they do do better in higher light (to a point) because look at where a lot of them grow in the ocean; the intertidal zones. Very very shallow water gets a lot of light, so that would make sense. I think the reason that a lot of people (including myself) put them lower is because they can handle lower light just fine and I’d rather reserve that nice real estate for acros/clams/euphyllia etc and have the zoas on the bottom. Zoas are also very difficult to pry off the rocks so it’s much easier for people that have an interest in fragging them to have them on a flat surface such as a barebottom tank. I do notice that they tend to look and grow better in higher light though :). After I upgraded my lighting they colored up really nicely and growth rates like doubled

 

[Luis1992]

I have a 150G with a 4 bulb t5 hybrid and 4 radions running ab+ schedule. The polyps dont extends out very far but I find as long as I run my nitrates at 5-20 most zoas are fine. I currently have purple monsters, solar flare, wwc space juice, rainbow incinerators, pink hippos, Wwc bob marley and Fire and ice at 300+ par

 

[chaostactics]

Interesting on the lighting requirements on specific zoa's, do you get the impression they all just flexible with adaptation to various light conditions or do you think there are certain ones that do better under more light than less? I am noticing the WWC guidance for the Zoa's I just got from them are recommending high intensity lighting second only to acros. Do you think this is where they have them and why they get the colors they show?

I have a 80 gallon that's 24" deep and 98% zoa/paly.* To this day I haven't figured out low light vs high light demanding polyps. At this point every time I get a frag I just cut it in half or thirds or and put some high on the rocks, some low on the rocks, some in the middle, in varity of flows and see what works. I still don't get what the deciding factor is.

Running a Radion G4 XR30 PRO at around 50-60 % on coral lab AB