Yellow Polyps

[lordroad]

Ok, the kid at the LFS said these yellow polyps were super difficult and died in 3 months. Everything I find on the internet says to the contrary. They were also only 25 bucks, ten or fifteen on a rock. Think he was saying that cause he was confused, trying to get me to buy the more expensive zoos, or can yellow polyps be difficult?

 

[1979camaro]

yellow polyps are very difficult to kill...the little buggers spread like crazy in my experience...i have never heard anybody mention that they are hard to keep alive

 

[lordroad]

Thanks Camaro. I really liked them and also the rock they were on would be perfect to place in the nook of the tonga branch. Plus at 25 dollars, that's hard to beat... I'm thinking of going back and buying the frag.

The zoos are doing great. All polyps are open and I fed em some mysis today, it was cool watching them catch the shrimp bits and close up on em.

Anyway, as my water and params are all stable, do you see any problem in getting another coral so soon after the button polyps introduction?

 

[KahluaZzZ]

most easy coral i have...and they don't need calcium..
They spread faster than aiptasia

 

[lordroad]

The yellow polyps were on a rock too large for what I had in mind. Instead I spent 52 bucks on a mat of GSP.

They opened up pretty fast and are looking good. I put them in the highest current area, where the sand makes a dune and the glass bottom is always present. It's awesome watching it wave, like the grass on the hill in The Thin Red Line.

The mat connects two rock pieces and you can see it extended way off its base. I'm hoping it will curve back down and colonize the shells I provided it... is that how it works?

 

[1979camaro]

thats pretty much how it works...it should spread quite rapidly given proper conditions...if you decide you do want the yellow polyps as well you could always take a hammer to the rock to make it fit and trade the other half in or place it somewhere else

 

[wayne]

Mine were growing like crazy till I used an aluminium based phosphate remover - it killed almost all of them in two or three days, and made all my zo's shut for a week.....

 

[JCS11236]

U FEED ZOOS FROZEN MYSIS

WHAT ELSE DO ZOO AND MUSHROOMS EAT????

 

[1979camaro]

zoas don't need fed nor do mushrooms. they live on the mucus created by photosynthetic zooanthelaxe algae living within their body

 

[JCS11236]

okay--but i went to web sites that say they need eat brine and mysis shrimp as well? am i wrong?

 

[JCS11236]

so all that mushrooms and polyps need is light??
and good weekly water changes---no chemical!!!!!!

cool!

i have 36 watt pc light--is that good for my tank if i only plan to have mushrooms and polyps??

 

[1979camaro]

they don't need fed at all

your lights should be ok for zoas/mushrooms. they won't spread really fast but they should stay alive

 

[wayne]

You sure about that? Really sure
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/zoanthidfdgfaqs.htm
is a start. Mushrooms generally, but not exclusively feed by adsorbing nutrients from tank water

 

[JCS11236]

so 1979--u neva feedur zoo??

 

[1979camaro]

i dont feed my zoas or my shrooms...while target feeding will certainly increase growth i do not believe it is necessary