Challenges of large mix zoa gardens?

[zheka757]

Whats your challenge of keeping mixed zoa garden. Let's say you start with 10-15 frags. ..I know they don't grow at same rate as others. How you guys manage them?

 

[Lavey29]

Whats your challenge of keeping mixed zoa garden. Let's say you start with 10-15 frags. ..I know they don't grow at same rate as others. How you guys manage them?

Some grow faster and bigger then others thus covering and enveloping the weaker coral.

 

[zheka757]

what I'm thinking is growing them all on a separate 2.5 " grow out plates. Wait until they all fill their plates, then plant them all on a rock of your choice.

 

[PokeFish]

youd have to cut the fast growers back

 

[zheka757]

Can zoa grow on top of another zoa?

 

[Coral Your World]

If not give enough room, one or two zoas will inevitably out compete the others and you’ll be left with a pretty uniform zoa covered rock

will look great for a short while, but not forever

 

[Daniel92481]

Usually what happens is the fast grower or the one with bigger polyps will extend up toward the light, thus melting the zoa beneath it. I had $20 fast growers kill off $140 frags. At the time, I didn’t worry about cutting any back. I just let them do their thing. I still had a mini zoa garden, just not the way I planned it lol. The proper way to do it would be to research the fast growers, and organize them together vs the slower ones. My nirvana zoas had smothered about 25 polyps of pink constellations.

 

[zheka757]

Usually what happens is the fast grower or the one with bigger polyps will extend up toward the light, thus melting the zoa beneath it. I had $20 fast growers kill off $140 frags. At the time, I didn’t worry about cutting any back. I just let them do their thing. I still had a mini zoa garden, just not the way I planned it lol. The proper way to do it would be to research the fast growers, and organize them together vs the slower ones. My nirvana zoas had smothered about 25 polyps of pink constellations.

That's a good tip, plant slow with slow and fast with fast ones.

 

[Lavey29]

Usually what happens is the fast grower or the one with bigger polyps will extend up toward the light, thus melting the zoa beneath it. I had $20 fast growers kill off $140 frags. At the time, I didn’t worry about cutting any back. I just let them do their thing. I still had a mini zoa garden, just not the way I planned it lol. The proper way to do it would be to research the fast growers, and organize them together vs the slower ones. My nirvana zoas had smothered about 25 polyps of pink constellations.

My nirvanas did the same thing.

 

[Lavey29]

That's a good tip, plant slow with slow and fast with fast ones.

Although everything is contingent on tank conditions so fast may not be fast all the time and slow may not be so slow. Mine were all growing slow and then bam overnight a zoa jungle.

 

[zheka757]

Also now thay you mentioned it, I have 5 grow our plates that all started with couple polyps all at same time. Clearly can see that some grow faster then others

 

[Daniel92481]

My nirvanas did the same thing.

I couldn’t be that mad though because they looked so awesome.

 

[Lavey29]

I couldn’t be that mad though because they looked so awesome.

Your photo quality is great. I have to learn how to take nice coral pics like that.

 

[Daniel92481]

Your photo quality is great. I have to learn how to take nice coral pics like that.

Thanks. I was using the Orphek phone kit. It’s like $20 on Amazon.