flricordia
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Most here get awesome growth already from their zoanthids. For those not getting that growth allow me to leave you with one thought.
No matter what your tank parameters (hopefully within acceptable range), feeding habits, high-tech or low-tech, lighting, maintenance routine and whatever else, stability is the key to getting good growth.
Whatever you are adding, whatever your lighting, whatever your ph (8.3-8.5 hopefully) do your best to incorporate STABILITY. Keep everything that way and stop changing it around. Zoanthids are very adaptable, look at the conditions that most are found. Tide pools, exposed to air during low tides, low salinity levels during havy rains, they are very tough and adaptable.
But best growth is when they are contained within a set of parameters that has stabilized and is kept that way.
For example allow me to brag on my Purple Hornets. Not a month a go 9 polyps. Counted 18 today including nubs about to open up.
Pics when I return for Miami.
STABITLITY. I have found when changes occure in my set-up growth slows and when I leave things the way they are, exceptional growth.
No matter what your tank parameters (hopefully within acceptable range), feeding habits, high-tech or low-tech, lighting, maintenance routine and whatever else, stability is the key to getting good growth.
Whatever you are adding, whatever your lighting, whatever your ph (8.3-8.5 hopefully) do your best to incorporate STABILITY. Keep everything that way and stop changing it around. Zoanthids are very adaptable, look at the conditions that most are found. Tide pools, exposed to air during low tides, low salinity levels during havy rains, they are very tough and adaptable.
But best growth is when they are contained within a set of parameters that has stabilized and is kept that way.
For example allow me to brag on my Purple Hornets. Not a month a go 9 polyps. Counted 18 today including nubs about to open up.
Pics when I return for Miami.
STABITLITY. I have found when changes occure in my set-up growth slows and when I leave things the way they are, exceptional growth.
