Rasta Zoanthids Not Growing

[maxemorris]

My first coral that I got for my tank over a year ago was a frag of 3 Rasta zoanthid polyps. Now, over a year later, they’re at 12 polyps. I have other zoa frags I got later on and they’ve grown from 3 to 100 polyps in 6-8 months, but no luck with these.

I will say at one point they were covered in hair algae, and I did a 50/50 tank water and hydrogen peroxide dip. It took care of my problem and the coral are still open and happy, just not growing. Is there a chance that dip stunted their growth? Are these color known to be hard to grow? What is the best lighting and flow conditions to grow these?

 

[blaxsun]

The algae probably (temporarily) stunted their growth, yes. Depending on lighting, flow and placement - they can grow faster or slower. It's really a crap shoot sometimes.

 

[Roatan Reef]

The algae probably (temporarily) stunted their growth, yes. Depending on lighting, flow and placement - they can grow faster or slower. It's really a crap shoot sometimes.

Yes, got a frag of Rasta about a year ago, placed in Zoa garden, got some algae, didn't grow very well, or fast, kept cleaning with toothbrush, doing water changes, etc, now a 4 head Rasta is fully built into the zoa garden with like 24 heads and is just growing into a giant morph with about 8 other zoas.