Food for Zoos

[Just me]

hi, does anyone know what does Zoos feed on?? mine seems to be dying off slowly

[bluezing]

zoos is one of the hardiest corals.

i dose aquapharm 5-1 liquid coral food. not sure whether they really "eat" anot also.

but so far ok leh...

gd luck bro~

[Qxnviolet]

I used the 5 in 1 coral food and switched to marinesnow recently. Most corals do not have to be directly fed....they'll absorb most of what they need from the water when you feed and so on. Does some coral food once a while and they'll be perfectly fine...

[zarkon]

hi, does anyone know what does Zoos feed on?? mine seems to be dying off slowly

Bro... let all newbie... including myself ... sometime, it can be due to other factors. Why don't you tell the bros here your tank set , how long you had that coral... flow rate etc etc

I'm sure some one will give some interesting suggestion... other then feeding. picture helps too

[nakazoru]

Food for zoo??? I dun really care what they eats. They are found at some of the murky water so if you agitate the sand, it will get some food.

I only dose phytoplankton for my goniopora and frogspawn so I guess the zoo will get some also. When I feed fishes, I did notice that the zoo eats the pellets that drop on them.

[Maxstar81]

My zoos only eat when i 1st bought them from LFS.

After about a mth. They dun eat anymore.

They just sun tann enuff liao.

If U are already dosing & they still seem to be dying,

I suggust U take a closer look. Look for baby nudis.

I gave up on mine after repeated nudis attack.

FW dip only kills the nudis but not the eggs leh.

After a while they will be back.

[nkh]

hi, does anyone know what does Zoos feed on?? mine seems to be dying off slowly

try adding IODIDIE from seachem or other brand u can find and see how. Did u do the FW dip? If not better do so and check for small tiny nudibranch

[FuEl]

No need to target feed zoanthids really. They absorb dissolved organics through the water. If they are dying off like you said it would help to give them a 5-10 min freshwater bath to get rid of possible parasites like nudibranchs.

[Elune]

oH, in case you guys managed to capture nudibranches alive, and they're like nice and colorful, do place them in the

"Nudibranch Adoption Thread" ya? Thanks!

Nudibranch Adoption Thread

[shoelevy]

hi, does anyone know what does Zoos feed on?? mine seems to be dying off slowly

hi

u dun need to feed zoos really...but the interesting thing is my people eater zoos do capture floating mysis and gobble them up

ok now that's besides the pt, i'd like to share with u my experience with a slowly dying zoo colony i had.

intially i tot it was the water parameters etc etc.

i tried dosing stuff but it didn't seem to help much until 1 day, a fellow friend came over and spotted some tiny snails i had running ard in my tank.

guess wat...they were sun dial snails...zoo pests

read more about them http://www.thesea.org/reef_aquarium/pests/pests_snails.php

note the words "instead the consumption pace is a bit more steady. Gone unnoticed you may attribute the losses to natural causes."

thats when i started to suspect the snails. and every night i will remove them...slowly but surely the numbers dwindled and now my zoos are very healthy

my pt to haring this experience is if u've tried toying with water parameters and everything seems fine, esp if other corals like lps are doing fine, then probably u will need to suspect that its pests.

look out for snails and nudibranches then decide on the right course of action.

ps:if its really sundials snails, they will come out at night...so look for them about 1 hr after your lights go off....

hope this helps

[zorden]

give the sundials to barracude of Arofantics...can pm him here too...

btw..its best..that ..u "lights out" for more than 3 hrs....

then do snail plucking exercise

[Just me]

give my Zoos a freshwater dip yesterday and many many nudibranches dropped out. but like what many bros said, ity would kill the eggs. anyone know how to remove nudibranches completely??