New zoo owner...need some help

[SaltandPepper]

I just picked up a few zoo frags last night, and I need a little help preparing to house them in my tank. I plan to run to the LFS to pick up some supplements and food for them. However, I have no idea what supplements and food I need. Can you experienced zoo keepers help me out?

Thanks in advance.

[Sloth]

Light and regular water changes. That's about it. Some zoos will take small meaty food like cyclop-eze. Some people say zoos will absorb dissolved organics. The rest comes right out of your salt mix and is replenished each time you do a water change.

[SaltandPepper]

Regarding the cyclop-eze, do I need to manually feed it to each polyp, or will the zoo's catch the food in the water column?

[Smo]

Just as Sloth said.
You don't really need to feed them. Unless you want them to take over your tank. I have a lot of mushrooms and zoos in my tank, along with many other corals that get their supplements from the water column.
I dose twice a week with ESV Spray Dried Marine Phytoplankton. Just place about a scoop full into the top of the tank and let it work its way through the system. My shrimp and fishies get mysis shrimp and bloodworms. Quite often many of the zoos will catch some of the mysis and gobble it up.

Just keep up on the regular water changes and add some phytoplankton or zooplankton if you want.

[SaltandPepper]

thanks for the tips!

[jjmcat]

oyster eggs zoas love them

[loyalty]

Originally posted by jjmcat
oyster eggs zoas love them

do they? i've been thinking about adding this stuff to my regiment..i've been hearing good stuff about oyster eggs

[Shultz]

I've just started adding it to my tank, changed to every other day now though as I've had a cyano outbreak, the tub does warn you need very little & it could cause an algae outbreak!

Cheers Shelton.

[Avi]

One thing you should do when keeping zo's is to flush them with blasts of water using a turkey baster every three or four days. This is so that detritus and food like cyclopeese doesn't settle in between them and serve as a place where algae can start growing...that would be very bad for the zo's and should be avoided.

[jjmcat]

ill try that avi

[jasper24]

I feed my Zoas and Ricordea frozen mysis once or twice a week. Just thaw them out in tank water and use a syringe. The Zoas close up on them so I assume they like it.

[Musho3210]

what about squid?

EDIT: Woah, i didnt know this thread was so old.....

[loyalty]

well why we're talking old threads, my zoos did respond nicely to oyster eggs as a treat every 3-4 days

[poepsakkies]

any sugestions about lighting for zoo's. i'm and reefer but seem to struggle with zoo's or any polop for that matter . espesialy barly polops. will definately try oyster eggs. when i find somr that is

[Ricecakeguy]

i give mine a little phyto

[brodden]

what about dosing iodine and calcium?

I just got my first coral frag and I believe it is a zoo. The LFS guy told me that I need to dose calcium and iodine about once a week since this is the only coral I have and I do 20% water changes every other week.

Any advice? Is there a way to tell by looking at the coral when it needs to be dosed?

[SIR PATRICK]

I wouldnt dose anything I cant test for, and not till I knew what range I was shooting for to acheive.

You might be able to tell from your corals if somthing is wrong or out of balance, but it is a shot in the dark guess unless your testing.