Barebottom "Grass"

[Woodchuck12]

Would it be possible to have a barebottom tank, but grow zoanthids on the bottom to mimic a sort of grass?

[cloak]

Yeah, that can be done.

[Snakebyt]

green star polyps works good too, and much faster

[THS]

My LFS has a tank with the entire back wall covered in zoas and xenias (for whatever reason)

[d2mini]

green star polyps works good too, and much faster

ya, but then they'd start climbing the rocks and you'll have nothing but green star polyps.

[Woodchuck12]

Yeah, I am stacking the rock in my tank to look like trees, so I thought It would be cool to do some red green or orange zoas/palys to cover the bottom and go bare bottom to save money on sand and make it look like grass or fallen leaves.

[Lateralus]

Sounds cool. The tank would truely be a living reef at that point :) ...


Actually If Im not mistaken one of the totm weve had here recently had some encrusting monties on the bottom.

[ReefCare4U]

This sounds interesting. Post pics of your rock work

[4ddiction]

GSP would be a lot faster and look cooler IMO sorta like swaying grass

[OKDOHK]

A friend of mine used Acans for the floor of his tank. It looked amazing.

[Woodchuck12]

I will post pics when it is further along the way, and I have a camera again.:o

[Cleancoupe]

That would look really cool.

[Woodchuck12]

Would this negatively affect any fish like a dragonet or shrimp/goby pair?

[Tmoriarty]

Yes on the goby's, goby's really need sand to be "happy", that is their natural environment.

[scarface70706]

green star polyps works good too, and much faster

i was just gonna say that. :) having a bare bottom tank full of GSP on the ground would look so sick.

[benjaminspades]

Is there any way yo contain the Gsp from climbing the rocks?? Would t hey look bad in extended shaded areas?

[Woodchuck12]

Okay so I will go without the goby to do this. Is there any way to keep GSP from spreading up the rocks?

[guy9smiley2]

Weekly trimming n cutting of it