Hallucination Paly help

FishyReef · Jun 27, 2013

I have a small colony of hallucinations that are no longer happy. I've tried everything I can think of and nothing seems to be helping. They closed a few weeks ago and just won't open back up. They do not appear to be melting away. For those of you who have been successful with hallucinations, where do you have them placed in your tank? Mine have been in a low flow spot on my sand bed, where they grew from 1 to 13 polyps since December. I'm wondering if they are just no longer happy in this spot! Any advice you guys have would be great!

shawy2510 · Jun 27, 2013

I have a single hallucination which I have on the sand bed under a ledge so out of the full beam of light & the flow is moderate. It has just popped a baby so pretty happy.

larryl · Jun 27, 2013

Man mine melted when I got them. I have been told they are a fast growing hearty polyp.

brandon85 · Jun 27, 2013

Sand bed very little flow, shade,I have a nice lil colony of 10+, I have produced about 25p

CoryC · Jun 27, 2013

could be cyano. that'll make em close and it's hard to tell sometimes.

Squared · Jun 27, 2013

i hear vitamin C can help sick polyps..

KoleTang · Jun 28, 2013

I have had zoas close for no good reason for weeks on end. I tried an iodine dip and they were back to normal in under a week.

PolandSpring · Jun 28, 2013

brandon85 said:
Sand bed very little flow, shade,I have a nice lil colony of 10+, I have produced about 25p

awesome! I got mine from you.. a 1p frag and a 2p frag. the 2p melted a few days later but the 1p grew to 16-17p since November I believe. Imagine the 2p didnt melt I'd have soo muchh!

shawy2510 · Jun 28, 2013

Wow Poland do you have any pics? A colony of thosr must look amazing.

brandon85 · Jun 28, 2013

PolandSpring said:
awesome! I got mine from you.. a 1p frag and a 2p frag. the 2p melted a few days later but the 1p grew to 16-17p since November I believe. Imagine the 2p didnt melt I'd have soo muchh!

yep, if you can get them to live they grow fairly good, for some reason my black speckles slowly disappeared my adult polyps look like juveniles now.....

brandon85 · Jun 28, 2013

Here is a quick phone pic from a few months ago, ill get a good one tonight.

shawy2510 · Jun 28, 2013

Wow stunning mate. I can't until I have 6 or so

gregoryleonard · Jun 28, 2013

Post a close up pic, maybe it will tell us something.

FishyReef said:
I have a small colony of hallucinations that are no longer happy. I've tried everything I can think of and nothing seems to be helping. They closed a few weeks ago and just won't open back up. They do not appear to be melting away. For those of you who have been successful with hallucinations, where do you have them placed in your tank? Mine have been in a low flow spot on my sand bed, where they grew from 1 to 13 polyps since December. I'm wondering if they are just no longer happy in this spot! Any advice you guys have would be great!

goody · Jun 28, 2013

I'll often dip closed up zoas in Furan2 and later that day they open up. On a side note, I can't believe some of the growth you guys have with these. I've had mine for over a year and still don't have any new polyps. I'm thinking my water is too clean, sps dominant, but I would think I would have at least have a few new polyps. I did cut a polyp from the 3p I originally bought and that guy now has 6p. Weird.

Wesley42079 · Jun 29, 2013

I have my Hallucination frag on the sandbed, tucked under a ledge which gets extremely low flow and a little light from my Kessil a350.

My single polyp frag is now growing two baby polyps after being in my tank for 2-3 months.