Long Stalk Syndrome

[colinadam]

Hi everyone,

I got some Palys/zoa's in recently. Some of them have the very elongated stem and look more like flowers than anything.

Is there a cure for this?

I have 2 tanks

A stock JBJ NanoCube DX. 36 Watts PC lights

A 20 High, 106 Watts PC lights.

How would you fix my zoa's?


Also a Micro question, I got my first one ever recently. How does everyone feed it? I don't really see any tentacles expand like acans.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

-Colin

 

[da6d2003]

As far as the palys go, I got some from a friend of mine who was trading them as long stem palys. I put them in my tank in in 2 days they are regular AOG. His lighting 175W SE bulbs, mine 250 HQI DEs.

In my experience it's them reaching for light.

 

[organism]

In my experience it's them reaching for light.

ditto, blast them with some light and they'll probably color up really nicely

 

[organism]

also, for feeding micros, they'll open up as soon as food hits the water, if you defrost some mysid, pour a small amount of that water into the tank, and they'll open up in minutes, then you can turkey baste some mysid right onto them

 

[colinadam]

Thanks for the quick replies. I'll try to move them one by one into the 20H.

 

[ficklefins]

I know you don't need any more input on this but I 100% agree with the comments above. I noticed that when I moved some palys from a high setting to a lower setting they would reach almost 3 inches for light.