Zoas ...for dummies?

Strangely enough some of my zoas are doing great on the sandbed and others needed to be moved to a higher spot. I guess you gotta try...

 

From my experience Zoanthids are very hardy – I have colony’s growing at the top of my tank and on the sand (so anywhere from 5 inches to 24 inches from MH’s). I always thought they required medium flow, but as I think of it my highest colony is high flow.

Did you feed them? You can target feed them meaty foods – when I target fed these in the past the growth rate was phenomenal.

 

Really? You can target feed meat to zoas??

 

I occasionally squirt cyclop-eeze on my zoas as I'm feeding the tank. Some eat, some don't.

I've noticed my palys and longer skirted zoas eat more that my others do.
It's pretty cool to watch my yellow polyps eat as you can see the cyclop-eeze inside them when they're done, LOL.

 

Hi KC....I am on break from a meeting today so I need to be short - but yup you can ! Oh here, I just googled and get this site with some target feeding talk: Zoanthids Feeding - Zoanthids.com Live Salt Water Zoanthids and Palythoa Coral For Sale they also mention cyclop eez, I tried this in the past but it floats too easily

 

Wow, I had no idea. lol They don't look like meat eaters to me....haha thanks for the link!!

 

whippy - just saw you posted as I was typing...I did not complete my thought on Cyclop eez and I noticed ytou mentioned it as well. I was unsucessful with target feeding - but the other tank folks enjoyed it !

 

What I do when i feed it is to turn off the flow to the tank completely for about 30 minutes.
I use a small pipette or syringe to spray food over the colony and let it settle. I usually feel them as I'm feeding my sun coral so the flow is off anyway....

I also make sure to feed the tank well before I feel any of the coral as my shrimp like to attack feeding coral. I saw my old cleaner shrimp punch my duncan in the mouth with his little shrimpy talons to steal the food it already ate!! Little turd

 

Cool...I'll have to give this a try! Thanks!!

Hahaha I like that shrimp