I'm joining the club!

[Schnizzle]

These will be arriving Friday and I'm thinking this will be the arrangement for my garden. I will gladly welcome any advice or pro tips before I dive in Friday evening.

 

[old salt reefer]

I don't really have any advise but I like your garden.

 

[Strawberry]

These will be arriving Friday and I'm thinking this will be the arrangement for my garden. I will gladly welcome any advice or pro tips before I dive in Friday evening.

No pro tips but wow what a haul! I hope you don’t have any melt aways! Just be sure to acclimate, dip, and if you can, quarantine to protect your display tank investment. It can be costly to have any infestations or hitchhiker pests make it into your tank.

 

[bsn_rn_cen]

Very nice

 

[The Aquatic Arsenal]

To make a zoa garden, you want to make sure they all grow at about the same rate. The faster growing ones can take over if you don't plan accordingly. You may want to get with the vendor and make sure it will be safe to ship this week. I have seen a lot of people complaining about shipping g delays due to packages being shipped because of black friday and cyber monday.

 

[Jason mack]

I like too dose vitaminC for my zoas ....theres a few threads on here about it ...you got some nice zoas there by the way ..!!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Take things slow and monitor water quality the next 8-10 weeks

 

[Schnizzle]

No pro tips but wow what a haul! I hope you don’t have any melt aways! Just be sure to acclimate, dip, and if you can, quarantine to protect your display tank investment. It can be costly to have any infestations or hitchhiker pests make it into your tank.

I do have the acclimation and dip procedures printed and ready. I’m a little neurotic about stuff like that. I could be better about QT but I have a lighted magnifier on an electronics station I use for inspection and cut corals off the plugs and remount them. Though, admittedly, aiptasia slipped by me. Hopefully I can catch any nudis, spiders or bugs on these.

 

[Roosterjack]

Nice! Keep us posted as they grow!

 

[Schnizzle]

To make a zoa garden, you want to make sure they all grow at about the same rate. The faster growing ones can take over if you don't plan accordingly. You may want to get with the vendor and make sure it will be safe to ship this week. I have seen a lot of people complaining about shipping g delays due to packages being shipped because of black friday and cyber monday.

I’ve been studying the various fragging methods to keep things in checked or “pruned” if you will. Lol That’s a very good point though. Someone mentioned the radioactive dragoneyes and bonfires grow quite rapidly. What I did not think about was shipping delays. I’ll check with our FedEx rep in the morning.

 

[Schnizzle]

I like too dose vitaminC for my zoas ....theres a few threads on here about it ...you got some nice zoas there by the way ..!!

I had not seen this but I will definitely look into it. Thanks.

 

[Schnizzle]

Take things slow and monitor water quality the next 8-10 weeks

I currently do bi-weekly water changes but I’ll definitely be testing more when I add these. I may start running carbon but my tang still has some HLLE scars that I believe are a result of that so I’ll have to come up with a way of cleaning it or something.

 

[Schnizzle]

Nice! Keep us posted as they grow!

Absolutely. I have a build thread but this is specific enough that I’ll crosspost progress on this thread as well.

 

[MERKEY]

Hello and welcome, that is a pretty garden!

 

[Schnizzle]

Okay zoa peeps. The group is in my DT now and I believe I am seeing some bryopsis growing on one of the frag plugs. Would you pull the whole rack and treat them in the QT with reef flux or try to remount the affected zoa on to a new plug?

On a separate note, it looks like I will lose one or two polyps of the blue watermelon. While this is acceptable, I would love to know why. Is this a common thing, the "melt-away"? It almost looks as if the polyp is pinching itself off the stalk while staying closed up. I've seen people say they treated the tank with chemiclean and the zoas opened up... Would you suggest treating the whole rack in the QT with reef flux AND chemiclean? I'm not a big fan of chemical warfare but I have used both of these on my DT in the past with success. I'm just worried it would be too much on the recently transplanted zoas. Thoughts? As you can see, everyone else looks happy.

 

[Schnizzle]

The Armor Of God that is closed up was brushed by a fish just prior to the photo being taken, they are all open.
Also, parameters:
8.04 alk
salt 35 ppt
.11 PO3
3.87 NO3
430 Ca
1383 Mg
8.1 PH

 

[old salt reefer]

The closed polyp has been that way for 2 months. Look what starting growing from it 2 weeks ago. It's a spiderman zoa.

 

[Schnizzle]

The closed polyp has been that way for 2 months. Look what starting growing from it 2 weeks ago. It's a spiderman zoa.

Pic is tiny but is that a new polyp? haha

 

[The Aquatic Arsenal]

I can't tell from the pic what the new polyp is besides a zoa lol. As far as the zoa with the bryopsis growing on it, if you can remove them and place on a new frag plug, I would suggest doing that. Another method you could try is raising your magnesium levels. This article should help explain the process https://reefhacks.com/bryopsis-fluconazole-dosage/#tab-con-12

 

[The Aquatic Arsenal]

I forgot to add that for zoas that won't open, you can dip them in some lugol's iodine to help them out.