Neal's Zoa/Paly Pics...
 

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Holy rasta colony

I saw this in the sps forum. Very intresting tank you got there. Awesome zoas to. do you plan on leting them cover the pilars?

ya know what is funny, alot of people say how slow these grow, as well as the red hornets for that matter, but the rastas started as 5 polyps 4 months ago, and now there is like 40 or more... they grow so fast for me, its silly lol...
and jus since i mentioned it, the hornets were only 2 in june, and now i count over 23 fully developed polyps... and those candy apple reds, were only about 15 in early june, they are now growing down the side which you cant see from this angle... and i recently removed about 15 more, which btw, most of them were for club donations for hurricane crashes...

pretty cool...

:beer:

i did that in the past with some, however, as they grow down more, they really tend to get bunched up on the top, and end up on top of each other for some reason... it looks pretty awesome i must say, but i like them to look spread out... so what i will do is, add a 4x4" tile under the 2x2" they are now on... or a 3x3" if i can find some... and jus keep doing that until a have a nice, low profile, "pyramid" type shape...

Really nice

:beer:

Looking good

thank you thank you ;)

Nice.

What type of lighting are they under?

Any FTS?

8 x 54 watt ATI bulbs on a 75g tank...

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Wow! Awesome set up there! I have had the slow-growing-Rasta problem but I am hoping they are going to get going soon! What is the 3rd pic down in your first post? THey are awesome!!

thank you very much :beer:

and that third one down, i believe are orange bam bams...

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Love them all very nice!!!:D

That rasta colony is killing me!

thank you :)

ive thinned out to only the ones i really love the most...

you like? lol... its my pride and joy... im jus gonna let it grow and grow and grow ;)

Mine is at 2 polyps still and holding. How many polyps did you start with?

i started with about 5 polyps in May... there is well over 50 now... my red hornets started as 2 in the beginning of June and there is at least 30 now... i get pretty good growth with my zoas i think...

yea i seem to have that problem myself trying to get these zoas to grow somemore than others such as the rastas and the sunny d's but lately my sunny d's have taken off hopeing the rastas will follow

my sunny d's are some of the strangest zoas ive kept... they seem to be extremely finicky in my tank... im not sure if there is something wrong or not... they seem to grow, but hardly open at times... in 3 months, i went from 1 to 8 polyps, but like i said, they dont seem happy and i cant understand it... very strange...

Are those tubbs blues? How is the growth rate on them?

those are tubbs blues in the first post... however i no longer have them... i started with about 10 polyps in May... that pic was taken the first week of september to give you an idea of the growth rate...

ive been needing to mount the orange bam bams and candy apple reds on larger tiles so they could grow out nicer, so i did that today, and as the red hornets and rastas were almost there too, i jus did them all on larger 4x4 tiles made of natural, tumbled rock... once the zoas all grow out to the edge of these, they will go one a 6x6 tile... I will not be fragging these zoas ever... my goal is to have one of the largest rasta colonies seen ;)

also, i have noticed some algae as well as small string like hydroids growing in between alot of my zoas... so today, i went and bought a small pair of tweezers, and a soft tooth brush, and went ahead and literally groomed all the zoas lol... i picked out the hydroids and brushed the brown algae that was growing... and then that is when i mounted all the zoas on the larger tiles... here are a few pics of what they looked like after, all closed up and upset lol, but they will thank me tomorrow, lol...


the bam bams...

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rastas...

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red hornets...

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and the candy apple reds, which are now in the front row as shown in the post above...

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who would have ever thought i would be "grooming" my zoas, lol... but i am glad i did...