Zoanthid tips and help

as said i was looking at getting a lot of colonies to start fragging and i wanted to start with Zoa's cuz i was told the are easy to care for and i like the way they look what is the basic setup for this kind of coral??

 

Low-medium-high lighting, dont need alot of flow really..

Pretty easy coral to care for. i have grown tons of them into large colonies. I ran a T5HO with 2 koralia powerheads and a small HOB filter and a skimmer(i had other corals in the tank also though) I dont think you need a skimmer for keeping zoas though.

 

ok cool i want to set up a main/show tank the i keep the mother corals i have a 40 breeder that im setting up i think i will do that in and then i have two 10 gallon tanks that i will put the frags in

 

Cool! good luck with it!

I have a 14g biocube that is my current reef tank, i am transfering all that over once i get the 29g biocube figured out. I am turing my 14g into a zoa garden basically and having these huge zoa colonies i get from the LFS for pretty cheap and fraggin them up.

 

nice well good luck to us both lol do u now what they mainly feed on?

 

They dont feed on anything, palythoas do..The only difference between the two is that palys normally are bigger and zoas are smaller polyped.

If you get a paly frag of like Nuclear Green palys(pretty common)..I fed them twice a week, the went from 2 polyps to 5 in 2 weeks..Incredible growth rate.

 

To increase growth try to get your nitrates between 10-15. They will actually do better and grow faster under these conditions.

 

ok cool thanks for the info