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Waiting for my lunch kaki for lunch, thot will just post some of the zoas that a nice bro passed me on Friday. Still got another 2 but the angle very tight for my tablet camera to take proper pic. My task is to keep all of them alive now.

Oops! Killed the good guys. Hope I did not wipe out their species in the tank. I also scared water problem. But all my rics, yuma, palys and blue star polyps all seems to be growing well and propagating. Even algae and cyanobacteria also growing very well too...haiz...So I'm ruling out water for the time being (except maybe too much nutrients). I took the advice and got a six-line (plus 5 cute little hermits). Wanted to get yellow wrasse but the fishes in that tank don't look healthy. So got the six-line instead. Lastly check out this palys. I really must do something about it. Amazing growth rate! Been procastinating its fragging for too long. Cos never frag before. Don't really have the heart to put the blade on it.

The zoas are now more or less stablized. The below circled spots are where they are usually closed. Don't know why. Do I monitor them for clearer signs of pests or disease or take further action? And on last Fri night, I got some zoa frags from a nice bro and as I was putting them in, spotted some unidentified snails in the tank (see pic below). The pattern looked a bit like sundial. So play safe took them all out and destroyed. O-mi-tuo-foh...Btw, are they really sundial snails? Looks a bit different from web though. Lastly, here's how they looked when closed at night. I know there're bros/sis here eyes very sharp. Can help see if got anything on them? Thank you.

Haha..so true. Can survive very good liao. Btw, I got my CoralRx Pro from Reef Depot. I don't remember how much though. Cheers

ya, this BT is supposed to be in some other bigger tank project but it didn't materialize. So it became mine n stayed in my tank since. Haiz...looks like some painful decision has to be made...

I forgot to add that nowadays I do dip the corals in Coral Rx Pro before putting them into tank. Yeah I like one on the right...dunno what Zoa are they though.

I have domino damsel and 2 maroon. They made it difficult to add new fish. I did managed to add one six-line before. But it killed itself after a few weeks by getting itself stuck behind the UV light. Maybe I'll get one more. I like six-lines. I think you have a point there on the blue tang behavior. Luckily the spot the rock is in now is 'protected' by the clown fish. So the Tang is kept at bay. So far no attacks after moving this rock to current spot. Just worried the flow there might be too low for zoas. And I do intend to get a tuxedo urchin and more hermits to help with the cleaning. Snail supply no problem since they seems to be reproducing. Water parameter is something I keep telling myself to do...but...salinity seems to be the only thing I measure now. The rest depends on water changes, skimmer n washing filter. I know I'm bad in this...

Hi bros & sis, I got myself below rock of zoas from Ah Beng 1 1/2 weeks ago. As you can see, they are not fully opened. I think I only saw them fully open once in my tank. The other time is when I first saw it in the shop display. Lol... I really love Zoas but all my previous colonies are all gone. What's left are individual polyps scattered around the tank. Not a single colony thrive like the palys. So this time round, thinking of getting the help of bros & sis here to keep this new colony alive. Think I'll give some background first: 1. My 1.5ft cube tank is around 3-4 yrs old using Maxspect 60W for lighting. Thriving corals include Rics, Yumas, Blue star polyps and Palys. Never take any water parameter. 2. Tank inhabitants include Blue tang, 2x Maroon Crown, Domino Damsel, Algae blenny, Watchman Goby, Fire Shrimp, Hermit crab and several species of snails. 3. Asterina starfish were once found and think contributed to the fast dying off of Zoa colonies at that time. But introduction of Harlequin Shrimp helped wipe out that starfish population. After that, the shrimp also disappeared and never seen again... 4. The blue tang somehow developed a liking for zoas. Been seeing it nipping at them. But it doesn't seems to like Palys. So this time round, I've put the new rock near the colony of Palys and just outside the Maroon Crown's house. The Crown helped to keep the tang away from the zoas at the moment. But they also threw a lot of pebbles onto the zoa rock. With that, I would love to hear your advice may it be placement of coral, condition of zoa now (from the photo) or anything that you think can help to keep this rock alive. Thanks in advance.

Ok now, this is super nice!

Here's an update. The rics have won the battle against blue polyps and conquered the small rock that they are on. So I've stick them onto another bigger rock. Hope it'll continue to thrive and spread. Time to seek out interested bro/sis here to do Rics trading.

Hi bro, Here's another pic taken last year. This one can see the mouth. Hopefully color too. Cheers

Oh ya, just to add. I bougth the first piece from GO. Been with me for a year and a half.

Hi bro, I'm interested but I have a problem. I have never frag before and currently mine are all clustered together. Any advice to cut one or two pieces out without hurting the rest? Below are the pics. See if you like what you see. Sorry, mobile picture quality no good.

Another 7 months have passed and it seems that once they started their split, it's going to continue on and on. Now I also don't know how many pieces of this Rics are there.

Now I have a blue star polyps and a green palys infestation problem...haiz...if only my Zoas are growing like them I'll be so happy. Instead all my zoas shrink and die all the time. On the bright side, at least my Rics (split from 1pc to 7/8pcs now) and Yumas are multiplying

Sorry bros, I didn't realise there are more replies until now. bro dryDiver, I'm using my iphone camera. So the picture cannot make it. Nope, there is no mushroom. Even if there is, I'm afraid now it'll be gone...(I'll show what I mean below. You see how much it has grown over 2 months) bro reddevils, the poisonous part of this palys, do they sting other corals? My zoa has definitely lost the battle against it. And now one of my baby Yuma is overrun by it and dead. It is now extending itself to cover my other baby Yumas. So I'm thinking of cutting it out from the rock. Not sure if any bro/sis here interested to own a frag of it. And I noticed in the background nearby, my big yumas are also bleaching and shrinking up. Any chance it is caused by this palys?

bro Cedric, cannot take it liao. Your frags are simply amazing. But don't dare to try SPS for now. Got zoas frag for sale?

I find that having a cleaner shrimp around does help with the ick. Once in a while, I'll see my fish park in front of my cleaner while it performs its cleaning service. In fact, as I'm typing now, I see my cleaner shrimp cleaning up one of my domino that seems to have some white spots on the body.

Haha...then got to wait for tonight after I leave office because the only human traffic is me siting in front of the tank all the time.

Help! I was trying to shift my clam to a new location using my long chopsticks. But it managed to clamp on one of the chopsticks and refused to let go. How can I make it release its grip without hurting it? Thanks in advance for your advice.

Phew...

Hi, I used to have a small rock of zoas with only one polyp of this palys/aptaisia. But now the zoas are almost gone and this 'creature' has multiplied and taken over the rock. Need help to ID this in case it is a pest. You can see at the bottom of that small rock, still got one small miserable polyp of zoa left... Thank you.

Hi there, anyone have a sump tank suitable for a 1.5ft cube tank? If so, please let me know the dimension, price and condition. Best if can provide a picture. Thank you.

Thanks vinccc2009. got my shrimp. Will see how it goes. thread closed. Thank you.

Caught another zoa-eating starfish in my tank and don't know how many still inside. Thought for a long time...given the hassle of feeding Harlequin shrimp...I have decided to take the plunge before all my zoas are gone. Anyone selling or know which LFS/farm is carrying it now?