Zoa Life Span

[MeMyFishandI]

Hi,

Long story short, I have to write a small, elementary school style report on a topic of my choosing. I chose zoas. I have been looking and I haven't seen anything (online at least) that states how long zoas live for. My library doesn't have anything that is helping me either. Does anybody here have any idea how long zoas can live for?

Also, if you have any other zoa fun facts I can add to my report, it would be greatly appreciated. (Don't worry, this paper serves no academic purpose, it is just a test to see if I have the ability to learn after a brain injury).

Thanks for your help with my homework!

 

[reefwiser]

You will not find much on Zoa’s as they have not Been an area of study. Live LPS and SPS have been. As they are not a reef building coral and are not found on the reef. Zoa’s are found at the shore line and along boat Pilings.

 

[MeMyFishandI]

You will not find much on Zoa’s as they have not Been an area of study. Live LPS and SPS have been. As they are not a reef building coral and are not found on the reef. Zoa’s are found at the shore line and along boat Pilings.

Just when you thought everything had been studied, you find out otherwise! Thanks for the info.

 

[reefwiser]

There was a few years ago a person that was doing research on Zoa’s. But I have not seen anything published yet. I watch the Scientific papers for interesting articles. An I am on coral research mailing lists.

 

[Oscar47f]

While none of what I’m gonna tell you is concrete and has definitely not been studied... my best guess is zoanthids are perpetual like most other corals, as long as they are given the right conditions and no predation they can live for hundreds of years if not perpetually... reason being is because a coral can be cut and grown I believe many strains in the hobby can be over 30 years old with no signs of losing the mother or the fragments that eventually turn into colonies themselves but are genetically identical to the mother colony... zoanthids are toxic while not as toxic as their cousins the palythoas(they look similar but are usually bigger in size) I do remember writing a paper my first year of college and finding a source where they were using zoanthids and palythoa to try and study the toxins within to fight cancer ? Something like that lol and zoanthids come in endless colors, some types like to have sand in between the polyps others don’t and like to grow on rocks more many many things you can learn about zoanthids especially here on this forum though I don’t believe it’ll count as being researched lol

 

[Oscar47f]

Also feel better !

 

[MeMyFishandI]

While none of what I’m gonna tell you is concrete and has definitely not been studied... my best guess is zoanthids are perpetual like most other corals, as long as they are given the right conditions and no predation they can live for hundreds of years if not perpetually... reason being is because a coral can be cut and grown I believe many strains in the hobby can be over 30 years old with no signs of losing the mother or the fragments that eventually turn into colonies themselves but are genetically identical to the mother colony... zoanthids are toxic while not as toxic as their cousins the palythoas(they look similar but are usually bigger in size) I do remember writing a paper my first year of college and finding a source where they were using zoanthids and palythoa to try and study the toxins within to fight cancer ? Something like that lol and zoanthids come in endless colors, some types like to have sand in between the polyps others don’t and like to grow on rocks more many many things you can learn about zoanthids especially here on this forum though I don’t believe it’ll count as being researched lol

Thanks for you input. This gives me some ideas to look in to further. As I said, the goal of the assignment is to actually see if I can do the assignment, not so much the content. While I want to be sure that the content is correct, using anecdotal sources is not going to sink me.