Zoanthid and Palythoa Eye Candy Thread (zoas & palys)

[Mike from TN]

My favorite colony. Can someone identify them for me?

 

[TankCandy]

Some grow so fast and others grow so slow i never understood.

 

[Metalhead670]

Some grow so fast and others grow so slow i never understood.

Those are some beautiful zoas. What are they? Zoanthids are definitely eye candy.

 

[Nick Rose]

Loving my GMK’s.

 

[Daddy-o]

 

[dtruitt]

Loving my GMK’s.

What have you done to encourage growth with this morph and how long did it take to get there from however many polyps you originally got?

I've got a few polyps that I ticked off pretty well digging them out from the ridiculous pile of glue they came in on. Hoping they can start to spread out now they're not buried under so much super glue.

 

[Arthacker87]

Few sorry for bad pics im not very good lol

 

[Renescence]

Here’s a couple of my faves in the tank:

 

[Nick Rose]

What have you done to encourage growth with this morph and how long did it take to get there from however many polyps you originally got?

I've got a few polyps that I ticked off pretty well digging them out from the ridiculous pile of glue they came in on. Hoping they can start to spread out now they're not buried under so much super glue.

As for as I know I’m not doing anything special. Just keeping parameters stable. 35ppt, 450Ca, 8.5ALK, 1380Mag, <2No3, <.15Po4, 8.3Ph, 78Temp. The lights are AI Vegas running around 12hrs and the peak is 4hrs of 70%blues and 65%White the PAR is above 100 par for the location there at.

So I started off with one polyp last October 2019 and within 2 months it grew 3 new heads. But then it slowed/stopped growing. I think it started picking up speed in the summer. Right now it’s up to 16 polyps. I tried to frag a single polyp twice in the past month but both have melted. The second one lasted longer.

This is the single polyp I bought in October 2019

 

[Daddy-o]

As for as I know I’m not doing anything special. Just keeping parameters stable. 35ppt, 450Ca, 8.5ALK, 1380Mag, <2No3, <.15Po4, 8.3Ph, 78Temp. The lights are AI Vegas running around 12hrs and the peak is 4hrs of 70%blues and 65%White the PAR is above 100 par for the location there at.

So I started off with one polyp last October 2019 and within 2 months it grew 3 new heads. But then it slowed/stopped growing. I think it started picking up speed in the summer. Right now it’s up to 16 polyps. I tried to frag a single polyp twice in the past month but both have melted. The second one lasted longer.

This is the single polyp I bought in October 2019

Hey Nick, If you want to use our frag bandsaw to cut the disc, let me know.

 

[Daddy-o]

 

[Daddy-o]

 

[rcrutherford44]

I'm still working on how to work the filter on my iPhone, really liking everyone's pictures

 

[Bizzie]

Daisy Cutters waking up in the morning -- 49 day old tank

Nicely done, especially considering it’s a fairly new tank.

 

[notsobigtime]

Just thought I would swing through and drop the hottest SBB Hephaestus you have seen. I'll leave now.

 

[dtruitt]

Just thought I would swing through and drop the hottest SBB Hephaestus you have seen. I'll leave now.

How much do you want per polyp? These are on my list.

 

[notsobigtime]

How much do you want per polyp? These are on my list.

PM incoming

 

[Steven Garland]

Here are a few of my gems,unedited and shot on a Samsung A51 phone:

 

[Metalhead670]

wow... i'm jealous
would love to have some frags or a garden like u guys but i'm worried about what palytoxin can do and if it contaminates water :/

 

[dtruitt]

wow... i'm jealous
would love to have some frags or a garden like u guys but i'm worried about what palytoxin can do and if it contaminates water :/

Palytoxin is theoretically present in zoanthids, but in practice the concentrations are very low. Shy of ingesting whole zoas, it's not a major concern.

Palys are a different story.