Zoanthids
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Topic: Zoanthids
Posted By: Will Spencer
Subject: Zoanthids
Date Posted: December 07 2007 at 11:51pm
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I've always wanted to have some cool zoanthids, but I can never quite get the cools ones. I always get just plain Jane stuff. I finally figured out the secret to getting the cool ones. Just wait a while until they really get going. They will get cool if you are patient.
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Posted By: Danner
Date Posted: December 08 2007 at 12:16am
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very nice man i love zoos Ryan
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Posted By: Danner
Date Posted: December 08 2007 at 12:17am
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oh and
hint hint
:P
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Posted By: EagleEyez5
Date Posted: December 08 2007 at 1:17am
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I think that alot of it has to do with water parameters.....I have found that when I add reef plus/phyto/ and do water changes, the color really comes out in the zoa's.......oh I also use some black powder, spectra vital.......I have a few zoa's ------------- http://www.highendcorals.com/"> 
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Posted By: Mike Savage
Date Posted: December 08 2007 at 8:59am
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Nice!
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Posted By: Debbles
Date Posted: December 08 2007 at 11:17am
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Oh, I love zoos! Great pictures and awesome corals.
Deb  ------------- Yes Mikey...I still have fins!!! |
Posted By: CrimsRayne
Date Posted: December 08 2007 at 11:45am
Nice pics. 
btw If you want to get rid of the majano in the zoos I can help you with that. ------------- "What we know from this hobby is too hard to share with the people who just want to look and not get wet." -Rioreefer "The Puffer Girl" Zoo freak :) West Jordan |
Posted By: cl2ysta1
Date Posted: December 08 2007 at 12:24pm
I have some on a star polyp rock i'd like to get rid of!!! let me know how ------------- I <3 Boxers Achilles tang lover |
CrimsRayne wrote:Posted By: Will Spencer
Date Posted: December 08 2007 at 12:32pm
| I've actually been pretty successful getting rid of the pest anemonies lately, but I've also been too busy to do it, or too lazy. |
Posted By: Kevin F
Date Posted: December 09 2007 at 1:00am
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The eye of rah ones are quite nice in those photo's. IME with 50 or 60 different speciesof zoo's is that they all do about the same, need the same cae, it's just the colorful ones are more expensive upfront. I farmed zoo's for a bit, got a frag of 5, grew it to ten, sold a frag of 5. It was fun, but if you start out with the ones you really want you'll be happier long term. There are some great sites for the rarer zoo's, but you pay for the color. JME ------------- The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. Albert Einstein |
Posted By: hammerhead
Date Posted: December 09 2007 at 7:49am
| How did you get rid of the pest anenomes? I have some I am trying to get rid of. |
Posted By: Will Spencer
Date Posted: December 09 2007 at 12:23pm
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I mix up a paste of Kalkwasser with hot water and lemon juice. Then using a syringe without the needle I cover the pest in the solution. (After turning off the water flow in the tank.) I let them sit this way for about half and hour before turning the flow back on. It seems to work for me if I literally bury the offender in the solution. Simply feeding it to them or injecting them with the solution has never worked.
This finally worked for me even on the Palythoa in the last pic which I consider a pest in my tank.
I've never been patient enough to continue use of this over and over until I get every last critter, but when they get out to hand I use it to control them.
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