The anti zoa - any good coral choice to help contain zoas?

[Calm Blue Ocean]

Don't get me wrong, I love my zoas, but those things can grow! I'm starting to get the awkward feeling that I'm heading toward having a very large orange island in the middle of my tank. Any coral suggestions to fence it in? Preferably something that goes well with a lot of orange!

 

[LgTas]

I'm on the same trajectory as you. Interested to see what others say.

 

[blasterman]

Don't let them loose off their rock unless you want to concede the landscape.

Assume we're talking about bam bams. Yep....they can terraform a planet.

 

[sp1187]

My monti’s appear to be winning that battle.
euphyllia will outright kill what ever they can touch.

 

[Calm Blue Ocean]

Don't let them loose off their rock unless you want to concede the landscape.

Assume we're talking about bam bams. Yep....they can terraform a planet.

JF Mango Coolers, but I still think I might be doomed to a world of orange ;Hilarious

 

[blasterman]

Most zoas won't encroach on LPS or most SPS tissue. I say most because green implosions and more aggressive palys will. The wild variants that contain lots of palytoxin will bomb your tank, but they are rather rare and not attractive.

The problem though is they chew up realestate and limit flexibility.

Euyphillia won't take grief from expanding zoas. Galaxy corals are even nastier at defending their turf.

 

[Auquanut]

I have a very large birds nest that has stopped my zoas from traveling west for several years now. I'd like to prune the birds nest considerably, but afraid of letting the zoas out of the fence.

 

[Natedogg1978]

Don't let them loose off their rock unless you want to concede the landscape.

Assume we're talking about bam bams. Yep....they can terraform a planet.

Ceramic ramekins? That’s cool. How are you utilizing these? Rocks glued on top of the overturned ramekin?

 

[Calm Blue Ocean]

I was going to post a new thread but then remembered I'd started this one.

So, the zoas are definitely getting out of hand. I have an orange mountain front and center in my tank. They are trying to run my duncan out of town.

I tried adding an encrusting monti to fence them in but it's proving to be much slower growing than those crazy zoas.

I finally had to do some manual removal today which I can't say I was super comfortable with. I did enough to give the duncan some breathing room, but I think next round I'll pull the rock (even though it has 5 corals on it including a monti cap) and peal the zoas off in a bucket because in spite of my best efforts, those suckers SLIMED! Did a water change and changed carbon but yeah, next time out of the tank!

Anyway, I was considering trying another pest to control them like some low growing GSP. At least the green might be a nice contrast with the mega orange. ;Hilarious

 

[Fishfreak2009]

I was going to post a new thread but then remembered I'd started this one.

So, the zoas are definitely getting out of hand. I have an orange mountain front and center in my tank. They are trying to run my duncan out of town.

I tried adding an encrusting monti to fence them in but it's proving to be much slower growing than those crazy zoas.

I finally had to do some manual removal today which I can't say I was super comfortable with. I did enough to give the duncan some breathing room, but I think next round I'll pull the rock (even though it has 5 corals on it including a monti cap) and peal the zoas off in a bucket because in spite of my best efforts, those suckers SLIMED! Did a water change and changed carbon but yeah, next time out of the tank!

Anyway, I was considering trying another pest to control them like some low growing GSP. At least the green might be a nice contrast with the mega orange. ;Hilarious

The GSP will overtake the zoas in my experience. Stick with Euphyllias, Montis, even some of the acros do a pretty good job keeping them fenced in. As do maxi mini nems...

 

[MoreReef]

Don't get me wrong, I love my zoas, but those things can grow! I'm starting to get the awkward feeling that I'm heading toward having a very large orange island in the middle of my tank. Any coral suggestions to fence it in? Preferably something that goes well with a lot of orange!

Chalices, favia, acans... id guess an encruster with sweepers...

 

[Calm Blue Ocean]

The GSP will overtake the zoas in my experience. Stick with Euphyllias, Montis, even some of the acros do a pretty good job keeping them fenced in. As do maxi mini nems...

It's like playing rock paper scissors but with corals!

 

[Calm Blue Ocean]

Chalices, favia, acans... id guess an encruster with sweepers...

I've got a Leptoseris still looking for a permanent spot on the rocks.

 

[MoreReef]

I've got a Leptoseris still looking for a permanent spot on the rocks.

Lepto for the win!

 

[ninjamyst]

Lepto are weak. They loose to ricordea and zoas. Encrusting monti wins over zoas. My sunset monti won over bam bams and scramble eggs.

 

[Reefing102]

I agree the lepto is weak. My Solar Eclipse bounce mushrooms killed my JF Jack o lantern lepto in no time.

I’d probably try a faster growing SPS like birds nest or stylo, or a favia or galaxea due to the sweepers

 

[Calm Blue Ocean]

Lepto are weak. They loose to ricordea and zoas. Encrusting monti wins over zoas. My sunset monti won over bam bams and scramble eggs.

I've got a JF Fruity Pebbles sharing the rock right now, just wasn't sure if it had what it takes to hold back the Mango Coolers. Hopefully it takes off!

 

[Calm Blue Ocean]

I agree the lepto is weak. My Solar Eclipse bounce mushrooms killed my JF Jack o lantern lepto in no time.

I’d probably try a faster growing SPS like birds nest or stylo, or a favia or galaxea due to the sweepers

I do have a birdsnest growing out on a frag plug that could be a candidate. Might take some trial and error but sounds like I have a few things I can try. Going to cut back the zoa colony by about half and try out the birdsnest and monti.

 

[Ranjib]

Leptoseris, leptastrea, chalices .. all of them will take over zoas. Zoas are also easier to scrape off and frag. I would not worry too much about them. They are not Xenia or gsp or encrusting micro Goni , all of those are worse than Zoas in my opinion

 

[OrchidMiss]

I agree the lepto is weak. My Solar Eclipse bounce mushrooms killed my JF Jack o lantern lepto in no time.

I’d probably try a faster growing SPS like birds nest or stylo, or a favia or galaxea due to the sweepers

LOVE my galaxia for this reason!