zoa issue

[daniella3d]

Don't put them in high light. It is better to put them in the shade while they adjust to other parameters. Those that I have put away from the light and in the shade have done much better. I have some that are getting huge and multiplying well in the shade whereas those in the high light have remained very small and I can see they are stressed and it will take quite some time for them to adjust, if they ever do they will remain small.

I have some that took one month to open and are now multiplying fast.

Worse ennemy is cyano and amphipods. Amphipods will chew on the matte and eventualy kill the zoanthids. Interestingly mine did really bad when I switched to H2O salt and are now making a come back after I switched back to IO, not sure why.

Originally Posted by brettm3535

About a week ago I bought a frag of zoa's with approx 10 of them on the rock. I dripped them for about an hour and placed them into my tank. That evening and the next day they were all open and looking awsome. After that second day they have now got to the point that all were closed really tight. A few days ago I checked my water params aand all were good other than my calcuim was a little low. I also did a water change to see if this was the cause. Tonight I still seen no improvement so I did a little reading up and I determined that I would try putting them in a higher flow area. Since I have seen one of the pods has a skin like material that has blown off and now I am seeing some color and that paticular one is starting to open slightly.

Just seeing what this might be and is there anything else I can do to turn these things around?
Thanks