Most Hard To Keep Zoa/Paly List

[kershak]

the #2 pic is a fraged colonie of african blue and they melt in that tank,so i move into my zoa dominated tank and they do perfect.i have gppe,ppe and never melt in the zoa tank but i try to keep on the tank of lps and sps and they melt,now i have in my zoa tank a realy nice colonies

 

[KJAG]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned sopranos..
For me, Yellow Jackets and Wow palys, my campfires seem to be following the same path..

Surprised to see Wow palys in this list. One of the hardiest pieces I have.. My campfires are long gone though unfortunately, as well as RPEs and nightmares.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Bump for the HARD list!

 

[kevin32]

Oh all my zoa Rasta are the slowest grower ever.... sigh

 

[Jenna X]

Utter chaos, my 20+ frag melted after fragging lol
I've had darth mauls and orange mauls melt as well.

All my other zoas/palys are fine

 

[rock_lobster]

freaking shazam zoanthids.... I've lost like 5 different frags so far they are extremely sensitive to alkalinity and just about everything. I moved one up about 2 inches and it melted and died in one day... Just ridiculous.

 

[Lc310]

Any indo stuff haha

 

[Ice]

Kracks

 

[North]

I personally don't believe any of the PE are hard to keep. I believe it is more retaining their color or pattern is much more difficult for example Crazy Ladies tend due better in high light but during a power outage they darken and never got their coloration back... however the new babies seem to show the original coloration. I find some ppe turn gpe and vice versa... weird... As for the most difficult in my experience have been the true darth mauls

 

[yman32]

Darth mauls

 

[yman32]

And. RDPEs

 

[ScottyMcReefer]

Any maul is tough imo. They Are tough to frag and melting rate is ridiculous.
Others to add:
~Sopranos
~Hawaiian pe all tend to morph
~Shazaams will melt out of NOWHERE
~Oompa loompas are finicky from my experience.
~ king of all...jf bloodshots! Mine won't grow, stayed closed for 3 months, yet still alive and happy after that 3 month hibernation period lol.

 

[TCK Corals Verified Sponsor]

Black Hornets are impossible for me to keep alive.

 

[Newwaterville]

RDPE & black hole suns

 

[Newwaterville]

Dark Phoenix PE & PZ Datenights as well

 

[Chrome84]

My blue kisses were always so finicky.

 

[Wesley42079]

JF Bloodshots melted quickly after I fragged the mother colony.

 

[Newwaterville]

I got 2p of sopranos and its been 4 months. I'm up to 8p. Fingers crossed!

 

[gacolt]

magician palys have melted on me 3 times now.i know alot of people that have great success with these but for some reason they always melt in my tank.i have a few people eater palys which i know alot people have had problems with so i have no idea why the magicians melt but they do.i gave up on them.i did have a problem with pink zippers but i kept moving them around in my tank and finally found a place that they are happy and have been growing very well.

 

[Newwaterville]

I had a plug with a magician on it fall from rack and I didn't realize it. It stayed face down in sand for a week. When I flipped it, it was just a grey bump. I almost threw it out. I left it and a polyp grew from it 2 months later. Awesome!