Carribbean or African Blue Zoos

[reef-lover]

What I have seen, from diving and snorkling in parts of the Carribean, are that blues are a very shallow-water zoanthid, most are even fully exposed at low tides, being out of water for up to 3-4 hours a day, with no ill- affects. Myself, like most , keep them very high, about 6 inches from the surface with heavy flow over them. If they ever start to melt away, I will experiment and take them out of the tank for a couple hours a day, and see what happens. Who knows? What we learn about zoanthids is through trial and error. mostly error, lol

 

[limestro]

What I have seen, from diving and snorkling in parts of the Carribean, are that blues are a very shallow-water zoanthid, most are even fully exposed at low tides, being out of water for up to 3-4 hours a day, with no ill- affects. Myself, like most , keep them very high, about 6 inches from the surface with heavy flow over them. If they ever start to melt away, I will experiment and take them out of the tank for a couple hours a day, and see what happens. Who knows? What we learn about zoanthids is through trial and error. mostly error, lol

reef-lover,

Keep us posted if you are resorted to this. I'll probably frag a piece of the colony if it goes down hill and try this experiment myself. Its worth a try.

~Mike

 

[detguy123]

i will look for a pic of the ones on the left and they started to melt after i put them in the tank..a few weeks after..tried the dips but it did not help

 

[detguy123]

here is a pic of the ones on the left..not the best pic but they are nothing that great..i wll try to get a better pic for you the flash really washed out the green and yellow in the middle