What zoas standout the most from 5'?

[goodtimes]

There's a local frag swap coming up soon and I'm trying to decide what I want. In the past I've bought done zoas that looked great when up close to them but have no impact from several feet away. While others I've bought really pop at 4-5' away from the tank. And some are common cheap varieties. So what's your opinion on what I should check out?

 

[joshporksandwich]

What lights you have? What colors you like?

 

[PRomero]

At five feet away mostly all zoas will stand out especially if its a nice sized colony depending on lighting as Josh pointed out. For me the cheapest and brightest ZOA would be armor of gods, its a super fast grower, can get large sized palys and awesome red/pink center. if you get a frag of 3-5polyps it'll be 20+ in a few months and will stand out in your tank with super bright blue LEDs, with zoas if you want "pop" you have to go with +3w actinic blue leds, if its not +3w then it won't be enough blue to make them really "pop".

 

[tuna_bullet]

cars, sunny Ds, and one of my favorites gobbstoppers, also colonies of some of the Hawaiians, bam bams, whammins

 

[goodtimes]

I have a ATI with a coral+ and 3 blue+.
As an example I have a frag of black lotus (15 polyps). It's one of the first thing that catches my eye.
Then I have a gobstopper with 20+ polyps and I hardly notice it.
I will say though On my nano I had led' s and everything had better color.

 

[Rob&Gab]

from 5 FT away the bubble tips in the tank in the basement stand out even tho there is a bunch of frags and chalices other things there aswell.

 

[pensfan]

God of wars look nice and bright especially a colony.

 

[joshporksandwich]

You might want to add an led strip and most zoas pop.

 

[reefpeeper]

Dragon eyes, nuclear greens

 

[reeferaddict420]

Bambams

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[andijo81]

Pink Zippers

 

[benny z]

bam bams under led. i've had them in every tank since like...2000? i can see them from across the house.

 

[PaulKreider]

Eagle eyes are probably my brightest from a distance, CAR's, Red PE's and Bam bams stand out the most to me. Im about 7feet from my tank right now and those are the most visible.