Official Melting Zoa/Paly Poll

[Akwarius]

I would like for this to be a resource for new collectors who are looking to keep hardier polyps and might want to avoid difficult to keep morphs. I obviously cant include every color morph, but I tried to include the more popular ones (that are known melters) and broke the others down by region.

Please vote for the morphs that HAVE MELTED under your care. Try to use good judgement. If you suspect that the loss may be due husbandry, poor shipping, sloppy fragging, etc. then dont vote.

Thanks for your participation!

 

[xmetalfan99]

You forgot to add the poll to the thread ooops

 

[Akwarius]

You forgot to add the poll to the thread ooops

I was still making it. Apparently the initial post goes up before the poll.

 

[xmetalfan99]

I was still making it. Apparently the initial post goes up before the poll.

My bad, sorry. that is odd that the OP goes up before the poll is made.

 

[dougers31]

For me it was orange bam bams(twice), go figure....

 

[Aquaph8]

The nightmares are the only ones that truely melted on me but asternia's cause problems with other colonies from time to time.

 

[Akwarius]

yeah nightmares are finicky. it looks like mauls have burned a lot of people!

 

[goody]

Had a frag of Darth Mauls turn into a colony of 100+ polyps, then just melted away. I've tried a couple more frags of them and can't seem to keep them from melting. Have trouble with nightmares, and my frag of sopranos did great and went from 6 to 15 polyps quickly, but then melted just as quick.

I know you mentioned sloppy fragging could be a cause, but I'd like to add that even though one might frag a colony with great precision and care, some z/p colonies will simply melt away once you frag them. I've heard Rastas do this, but I've never had a problem with my colony.

 

[Chong]

african blue steel, tried twice with two frags and both melted away within a week.

 

[Akwarius]

Had a frag of Darth Mauls turn into a colony of 100+ polyps, then just melted away. I've tried a couple more frags of them and can't seem to keep them from melting. Have trouble with nightmares, and my frag of sopranos did great and went from 6 to 15 polyps quickly, but then melted just as quick.

I know you mentioned sloppy fragging could be a cause, but I'd like to add that even though one might frag a colony with great precision and care, some z/p colonies will simply melt away once you frag them. I've heard Rastas do this, but I've never had a problem with my colony.

It's such a cruel joke when zoas multiply rapidly then melt. That's why I get really nervous when a colony starts to thrive.

 

[Akwarius]

I forgot to put pink zippers and rose nebula on the list. I've had those melt as well.

 

[Troylee]

Campfires..... They lasted awhile but left me over night heart broken....

 

[Akwarius]

Dang I forgot to put bloodshots, wows, and pink elephants on the list. Pink elephants do well for me, wows melt, and I've never had bloodshots but I hear they're finicky.

 

[fsu1dolfan]

Mine arent on the list but i figured i would mention them - Raptors Rainbows. They were slow growers and eventually just melted away.

 

[rustymiller02]

Wait, what? Blondies? No! :cry:

 

[rosco_068]

Vampires and Red Halos can be added to your list too. My colony of vampires melted after fragging.

 

[eggie]

I say Soprano is the faster melting zoa I have had and seen melt away

 

[fsu1dolfan]

For me it was orange bam bams(twice), go figure....

Twice ...really?!? Man that is crazy...that has been one of my stronger zoas. Did you frag it or was it just a frag the went bad on ya? Sorry to hear Dougers!

 

[viper1972]

Almost every zoanthid I have tried melted, untill I tried a smaller tank. For some reason when I set up a 16 gallon bowfront with just HO filter and PC light every zoanthid or paly I put in there grew like crazy. Especially the deepwater zoanthids. I could not keep them from spreading. My nukes was awesome. Then I moved and did not have time to mess with it and got rid of it and all the coral. Now I got a 46 bowfront and can not keep a zoanthid from melting, but my ricordea look great and open everyday just great. I also have good luck with LPS. Duncans grow like crazy.

 

[Akwarius]

Viper, that's a mystery. Perhaps the water chemistry or flow was more favorable for zoantthids in your nano.