Sunny D growth rates

[dutch27]

I'm curious to hear other people's experience with these. It took me around a year for two polyps to turn into three, and it's been I believe another 3 months for three to start turning into four. It's painful to watch, lol. I run a 4-bulb ATI T5, my water is probably on the dirty side as for as nitrates and phosphates go.

My tank doesn't seem to like growing zoas in general so it may be a bigger issue with wars in my mixed reef.

 

[Pola0502ds]

My sunny d's grow like crazy, probably one of the faster growing ones for me. But all my zoas have exploded with growth. I started dosing prodibio and added reef brites, once that happened everything took off. Prior to that everything grew pretty slow but not as slow as what you are experiencing.

 

[Tahoe61]

Mine grow faster than most any other coral. Under Hydra 52, I do not test N/P. Just abuse them and ignore them.

 

[McArcher]

Mine also grow fairly fast.
July 7:

Today:

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

How do you get these to grow? I have been getting no growth on these guys but the orange bam bams are growing at 1-2 polyps a month.

 

[Kremis]

mine went from 3 polyps to probably like 30-40 in like 4 months. one of the fastest growers

 

[AntarcticIkeelu]

How do you get these to grow? I have been getting no growth on these guys but the orange bam bams are growing at 1-2 polyps a month.

What light do you have?

 

[spiraling]

I find my smaller frags, like <5 polys seem to take a long time to heal and start growing. I think it depends on how they were fragged. Adding seachem fuel (amino acids) helped my growth a lot. Make sure your water IS on the dirtier side. When I get to 0 N / P several corals have issues and zoas don't open ans well and /or melt.

 

[gar732]

Mine grow faster than most any other coral. Under Hydra 52, I do not test N/P. Just abuse them and ignore them.

This is just about my exact experience with them. Same lights, they grow like mad. A little negligence can go a long way sometimes I guess.

Before, when I was actively trying to keep my nutrients under control by various methods, I had growth very similar to yours. Life got busy and I started to neglect my tank from lack of time. My montis survived the ordeal along with my zoas and palys which exploded in growth. I actually just made a bunch of frags because they are growing so well and I’ll have to trim back more shortly.

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

What light do you have?

I have a kessil a350 set at 50% output.

 

[AntarcticIkeelu]

I have a kessil a350 set at 50% output.

Hmm not sure then, I found that my old light wasn't strong enough for them. I eventually upgraded to radions at 80% and my zoas seemed to take off.

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

Hmm not sure then, I found that my old light wasn't strong enough for them. I eventually upgraded to radions at 80% and my zoas seemed to take off.

I have heard that these zoas like more light. They are also stretching too which indicates they need more light. Im worried about increasing output because all of my other corals seem happy. My orange zoas are not stretching like the ones nect to them.

 

[jd371]

Sunny D's and Pink Palys are the fast growers in my tank. In the first pic taken exactly a year ago you can see the Sunny D's frag next to the green Zoas. The next was taken a month ago.

 

[Vahanyos]

They were growing rather slow when I had high nitrates (40+) -

I have 0 nitrates now and getting 1-2 polyps a month or so...

Mine thrive more on 0 nitrates

I’m also running 4 54w ati bulbs

 

[John3]

I started with 3 polyps 5 months ago and now have a good colony going. They are one of the fastest growers in my tank.

 

[40B Knasty]

Broadcast feed Reef Roids(great food without a negative impact like some coral foods do), Actinic(the best spectrum for photosynthesis to produce chlorophyll A & B), and a great carbon like BRS Premium ROX .08 to clean your water good. Yellowing of your water can actually cause a big decrease in PAR. Like 25%. So you are not getting the full value of the good lights you bought.

 

[Joeygee23]

Fast!!!

 

[Dragonreef202]

I haven’t had real good success with my sunny d’s either I have lost a lot of them since I’ve bought them. I could do better with keeping up with my tank as well too. I have other zoas that do good. I don’t do any dosing other than the occasional feedings of coral frenzy.

 

[BoomCorals]

I haven’t had real good success with my sunny d’s either I have lost a lot of them since I’ve bought them. I could do better with keeping up with my tank as well too. I have other zoas that do good. I don’t do any dosing other than the occasional feedings of coral frenzy.

Are you feeding your fish regularly? Measurable nitrates and phosphates?