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02-07-2013, 04:51 AM
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what do you feed your zoas at the store? ive mostly used a homemade blender mush but recently started trying coral frenzy as well.
as far as dirtier water, my chaeto sucks up everything really quick =)
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02-07-2013, 04:54 AM
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Live phyto and rotifers, if you look at any coral food you will see the first ingredient to be phyto.
Live phyto works wonders I find, stays in the wAter column for a little time too .
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02-07-2013, 05:14 AM
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I don't acclimate at all either and have had very few zoas melt. There are two different issues here one is growth the other is life. I'm with Denny about the lights, one of the biggest causes of melting in my opinion is change in light.
What lights are the frags under where you are buying them? I used to assume zoas and palys liked lower light but in fact most have done better in very intense lighting. The other question is growth. Food will increase growth dramatically, but I find they just need time to settle in then the exponential growth with start.
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02-07-2013, 05:17 AM
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+1 on the not acclimating. maybe it's bad practice but I haven't acclimated a single coral on this tank, zoa or otherwise, so long as the salinity in the source water and the salinity in my tank are within 0.002 of each other. I just plop them in (to a quarantine tank though, but the principle is the same).
I've only got two zoa frags so far, but neither melted, and neither has several Gs in SPS.
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02-07-2013, 05:19 AM
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so other than matching light as close as possible (which is difficult unless i use a par meter due to leds looking so different compared to MH which look very different from T5), what do you recommend for light acclimation time? 1 week, 2, 3?
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02-07-2013, 05:27 AM
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What have you been doing for light acclamation?
I personally don't change anything but I do watch and move them to different areas if they don't respond within a day. I think making changes to the system every time I get a new frag is a mistake, as it is more important to have consistency than anything else. (its not about the type of fixture but more so the proximity and intensity that will help in acclimating)
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225gal dt with 100g sump. Mitras, vortechs, bubble king, AI Sol and Profilux. http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...threadid=84782 Will trade subs for frags My other summer hobby: http://www.edkra.ca Last edited by subman; 02-07-2013 at 05:29 AM.
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