Mike McCown
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Hey everyone my name is Mike and new on here, just signed up. I have had my 29 gallon tank now for almost two years. My sister owns a fish store here in the Clear Lake area of Houston and she got me into it after some personal tragedy that happened to me to help take my mind off things and it helped out more than I can describe. Anyways I absolutely love my tank and will hopefully be getting a 50-75 gallon tank in the near future once I have the money for it. I found that I have an obsession for Zoanthids and I can't get enough of them. They are expensive as all get out however and most stores I've been too only ship the basic bland colors to the locations I've been to here in Houston as well as my sisters store. I've managed in the last week to get a few frags from my sisters place that are really nice. One being an Eagle Eye frag with about 25 polyps on it, the second being a really bright green and orange type of Zoa with 15 polyps on it which is very bright and florescent when I have my blue LED light on, and the third is a Aussie Black Goblin on Fire Zoa with 25-30 polyps on it. Not sure if that's the real name but that's what the place I ordered it from called it. It had three bristle worms under the frag itself when I got it so thankfully I removed the Zoa from the frag peg to put it on my Live Rock that I'm trying to grow a colony on or I wouldn't of noticed them and they would now be in my tank.
Sorry for rambling. So my question is what's the best methods for getting the Zoa's to spread quicker? My conditions are great in my tank as I get my water tested every single week when I go in to get new water for a water change, but anytime I've had Zoa's in my tank they never seem to spread for some reason. They all open up almost immediately when putting them in my tank, they all look very healthy and everything you'd expect but they never grow or spread out. I know I'm an impatient person by nature so that's not a good thing when wanting my corals to grow and spread out, but everything I've ever read on other sites say that they grow and reproduce at a rate of 1-3 per week once they are use to the tank and the conditions are correct. So I'm just curious as to what everyone on here things. Any helpful information would be amazing, and if you know of any other online places that sell nice Zoa's that are not crazy expensive then please let me know as well. I want to have several colonies in my tank at some point.
Sorry for rambling. So my question is what's the best methods for getting the Zoa's to spread quicker? My conditions are great in my tank as I get my water tested every single week when I go in to get new water for a water change, but anytime I've had Zoa's in my tank they never seem to spread for some reason. They all open up almost immediately when putting them in my tank, they all look very healthy and everything you'd expect but they never grow or spread out. I know I'm an impatient person by nature so that's not a good thing when wanting my corals to grow and spread out, but everything I've ever read on other sites say that they grow and reproduce at a rate of 1-3 per week once they are use to the tank and the conditions are correct. So I'm just curious as to what everyone on here things. Any helpful information would be amazing, and if you know of any other online places that sell nice Zoa's that are not crazy expensive then please let me know as well. I want to have several colonies in my tank at some point.
