Zoa growth

[Kehaulani]

Just curious if anyone knows much about how zoas grow. I hear that they grow faster if they are in a colony but I have some frags that only have one or two polyps on them. I have them under two kessil A360 WE and they are placed in the sand bed of a 75 gallon tank. All parameters are good. Just curious to see how fast they should grow. I also feed fauna Marin food to them.
Thanks for any advice.
Kehau

 

[santana1213]

Yes from what I have learned and experienced they grow faster when they are in colonies vs a single polyp. Colonies have more energy to spend growing polyps vs the energy a single polyp would have to put out. Hope that helps

 

[Kehaulani]

It does thanks. Do you know about how long it takes for a two polyp zoa to grow? Like a rough estimate maybe

 

[santana1213]

Depends on the zoa. When I got my Halle berry palys it only had 1 polyp. Now a month and a half later I have 8

 

[Kehaulani]

Wow that's great! What type of lights do you have? And do you feed them?

 

[santana1213]

I have current USA orbit marine leds

 

[jsker]

Good to here that the orbit marine led works, I bought one in January for a new setup and was wondering if the orbit marine works. I have read some reviews and some did not like the light. I just purchase zoa this weekend and it looks pretty happy right now.

 

[Kehaulani]

That's good it worked for you. I bought one and it didn't really help anything in my tank grow other than gsp. I have recently upgraded to 2 A360 kessils. Everything is growing now. Very happy with the light.

 

[Ice]

zoa growth is based on everything, i think water parameters and supplements are the key to growth, yes lights play a big roll too, i need my zoas 3-4 things and the growth is amazing.

 

[Kehaulani]

What do you do for your zoas? Besides water parameters I mean

 

[santana1213]

Biggest thing to me is consistency. I do my water changes same day every week and keeps my lights on a schedule.

 

[santana1213]

Hey guys, this is a dumb question but I can't figure out how to start a new post. Can you please help me?

 

[Seth fhy]

I put a single polyp on a frag plug about 2 weeks ago and now there are 3 polyps

 

[Kehaulani]

That's awesome. I'm glad to hear that. To start a new post all you have to do is go to the right subject you wanna post under and then if you are on your cell phone click the pencil in the upper right hand corner and post away.

 

[rosshamsandwich]

update?

 

[mike werner]

never had great success with zoas until I started using aquaforest component 123, 4 months ago.parameters have always been good and stable but now even zoas I've had for years in my sps tank are multiplying like never before.same with all the sps,lps and the likes.if your thinking about trying out this 3 part system I highly recommend it.