Zoa Garden

[DmitryB]

I've been thinking about this 40 gallon set up (and IM just informed me my 170 tanks is in their warehouse!) that I might want to turn the entire rockscape here into a zoa garden. Keep a few LPSes in the sand. But place a bunch of zoa frags on the rocks and let them take over.

Only question is: what about the anemones? There's a Rose Bubble Tip and a Flower Anemone on the rocks. Would they get into a deadly fight or just let each other be?

 

[Saltyreef]

(and IM just informed me my 170 tanks is in their warehouse!)

 

[DmitryB]

(and IM just informed me my 170 tanks is in their warehouse!)

I've been waiting since early May! How long has your wait been?

 

[Saltyreef]

all my life! Ill have a complete IM system sometime in the future. Is the 170 an INT or EXT?

 

[Saltyreef]

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[Mr. Mojo Rising]

The growth of the pally's will eventually push the rfq off the rocks. I've never had a bta so I don't know how it will react. If you are asking if the bta and rfa will fight, we can't predict the future lol

 

[DSC reef]

My RBTA never messed with my zoas or vice versa. I loved having a zoa garden. I even had a trachy that grew right beside the rastas.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

My BTA never bothered my zoas

 

[DmitryB]

all my life! Ill have a complete IM system sometime in the future. Is the 170 an INT or EXT?

Mine is INT. The back of the tank can be seen from one side, so I didn't want pipes exposed.

 

[DmitryB]

My BTA never bothered my zoas

Can Zoas harm the BTA or the Flower anemone? Or would they just stop growing into the spot occupied by the Anemone?

 

[EnterName]

My BTA never bothered my zoas

Can Zoas harm the BTA or the Flower anemone? Or would they just stop growing into the spot occupied by the Anemone?

Might depend on the Zoa. Some are growing very aggressively and will spread further even if they are irritated 90% of the time by the BTA's sting. I had this happen with alien explosion zoas and decided to nuke the rock to stop them.

 

[DmitryB]

Might depend on the Zoa. Some are growing very aggressively and will spread further even if they are irritated 90% of the time by the BTA's sting. I had this happen with alien explosion zoas and decided to nuke the rock to stop them.

How did you nuke the rock?

 

[EnterName]

Might depend on the Zoa. Some are growing very aggressively and will spread further even if they are irritated 90% of the time by the BTA's sting. I had this happen with alien explosion zoas and decided to nuke the rock to stop them.

How did you nuke the rock?

1. Hydrogen peroxide bath
2. Sodium hypochlorite bath (those zoas left a lot of residue that you cannot remove with H2O2)
3. Dechlorination bath
4. RO/DI bath