Sunny D zoa care

A Toadstool Leather · Jun 25, 2017

I have a frag of these zoas on the bottom acclimating to the light. I was wondering what kind of flow and lighting they prefer. Should they be high up on the tank or lower? The tank is lit by a kessil a350 running at 25% blue and 10% white to get the corals used to the light. I will increase this later on.

Bdog4u2 · Jun 26, 2017

Low to mid level would be fine and with that said most zoas can handle a good amount of light as long as they are somewhat acclimated to it. I keep mine low And on there own rock to keep them from spreading and taking the tank over.

Tahoe61 · Jun 26, 2017

I believe Sunny D's are palythoa rather than zoanthids.

Looks at my avatar, I have a Sunny D invasion. They prefer good water quality and high lighting and flow imo, but will settle for less. They grow quickly under the right conditions but they are not picky.

Scott.h · Jun 26, 2017

They will tolerate a wide variety of lighting and parameters. I have them in the bottom of my sps tank, and in my low lit, dirty water softie tank also

LV3 · Jun 26, 2017

Just chiming in as well; I keep mine at the bottom in low to medium flow but not direct. Really the flow passes above them. PAR is about 120 and peaks to 150. They didn't start taking off until I raised the Nitrate to over 5PPM. They're under a Kessil AP700.

A Toadstool Leather · Jun 26, 2017

Tahoe61 said:
I believe Sunny D's are palythoa rather than zoanthids.

Looks at my avatar, I have a Sunny D invasion. They prefer good water quality and high lighting and flow imo, but will settle for less. They grow quickly under the right conditions but they are not picky.

So they can thrive in many conditions but like higher lighting? Did you feed your zoas anything? Im thinking of doing some broadcast feeding since they are too sensitive for target feeding.

LbulletM · Jun 27, 2017

Mine lost a couple of polyps when they were grouped with my other zoas at the bottom-right- front of my tank. Two new polyps within days once I moved them more towards the center of the tank for better lighting.

Oohkris123 · Jun 27, 2017

They are almost bulletproof if you can keep a zoa or mushroom you can keep any high end zoas or palys

A Toadstool Leather · Jun 27, 2017

Ok thanks for the help. I will eventually put mine higher up on the tank.

vanpire · Jun 27, 2017

My Sunny Ds grow really well with dirty water. I learned this by accident.

A Toadstool Leather · Jun 28, 2017

vanpire said:
My Sunny Ds grow really well with dirty water. I learned this by accident.

As in water with detectable nitrate?

vanpire · Jun 28, 2017

As in lots of nitrates and phosphates. This happened when I was remodeling my house and I moved my corals into a holding vat with the SPS frags/small colonies and zoas in egg crates on top and LPS, live rocks, hammers, etc. under the egg crate. Unknown too me the LPS, some large acro colonies, hammers, etc started to die underneath. I didn't see them due to the SPS on top and the water got really dirty from the deaths. Zoas polyps seemed like they exploded, especially Sunny Ds. They were there for a few weeks.