How To Keep Zoas | Zoanthid Care Guide

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#Zoas #Zoanthids
Here's a simple guide to everything you need to know about keeping zoa corals.
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0:00 Intro
0:25 Water parameters
2:05 Placement
4:28 Feeding
5:17 Troubleshooting
6:13 Other tips

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@williamburdis9225 3 жыл бұрын

From one man to another you have a very good voice. Easy listening

@desmondgraham1249 2 жыл бұрын

you all prolly dont care but does someone know a way to log back into an Instagram account?? I was stupid forgot my login password. I love any help you can offer me!

@binkybarnes2190 Жыл бұрын

Gayy

@richardportelli1983 3 жыл бұрын

If a zoa colony often has polyps closed up with lights on then it doesnt like high light so move it down lower or to a shaded spot. And if a colony doesnt have nicely extended tentacles then it probably wants more light and flow so move it up higher.

@modotd3885 3 жыл бұрын

Cheers. You've convinced me to keep a zoa garden

@vincentjames1995 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent. Thank you so much for putting out such quality content. You are a great advocate for the hobby. An inspiration!

@Scarz733 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this video, currently a beginner making a zoa garden! I bought a small colony and also attached to other frags onto the rock, hopefully they’ll grow out onto the rock and eventually I can pull the frag off, resell then put a different zoa frag there.

@russelltooke6252 3 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed your videos, I’m going to be setting up my little tank again and it will be mainly zoas.

@leonward1081 2 жыл бұрын

New Subscriber! love your content!

@ericgasparro2545 3 жыл бұрын

Great little corals, some of mine grow crazy fast, some don't. +1 on the AB+ advice, target feeding it combined with a dip has saved a few corals on me in the past. Great stuff.

@jungfraujoch11333 2 жыл бұрын

Tremendous presentation, great voice & sense of humour

@Mike-fd2pv 3 жыл бұрын

Hi there! Been considering getting back into marine fish after a 10 year hiatus. These videos have definitely helped me make a decision whether to invest or not! Thank you Reef Dork

@bhagyamaithripala6642 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing video, You Made My day.....

@RobBoryckiGolf 3 жыл бұрын

You da man Alex!

@freemansaquatics5326 3 жыл бұрын

Dam good advice 🍻

@alfst5546 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Alex, another great video, I gave up on Zoas, every time after a while, they just melted away, I was gutted, yet I have some palsy’s I think they are called and I just can’t get rid of them 🤷🏻‍♂️ l always look forward to Fridays 👍👍

@annebartells777 3 жыл бұрын

Zoa's are a great way to give color to your reef

@RustyShacklefardd 3 жыл бұрын

Be careful of palytoxin as well. Always be mindful when handling zoas and palys

@smokeandkippers 3 жыл бұрын

Hi mate .. love your videos and presenting style! I’m just starting a 30cm high nano with a mariglo 15w led blue/white .. other than zoas what other corals do you recommend for this light/depth combo .. I wish I had a par meter but I’ve spent a crazy amount already on this tiny tank!

@ReefDork 3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't worry about a par meter - that'll be very low light. Maybe some leathers or mushrooms.

@smokeandkippers 3 жыл бұрын

@@ReefDork Thanks fella, but what about GSP, Pulsing Xenia, Branching Hammers, Duncans etc .. you've put me off leathers and mushrooms in your "boring corals video" lol

@bearded-flipflop7122 3 жыл бұрын

I grew zoas like mad for about 3 years, then slowly they all melted away, I had bottomed out nitrates and phosphates, that caused cyano. Now it's taken over a year to get back to a healthier (not perfect) tank I would try zoas again but the prices seemed to have rocketed.

@jungfraujoch11333 2 жыл бұрын

I suffered the same last year, I’m very nervous if my nutrients get too low

@jaysrealreefuk 3 жыл бұрын

Loving my Zoa garden, but it isn't growing very quickly. Think they are missing the iodine, as this was 0 on my Triton ICP test. Great video as always 👍

@reefcubedan2680 3 жыл бұрын

Jay do a ati icp then they tell you how much to add so you can’t go wrong 😑

@drew-shourd 3 күн бұрын

Cheers Dork!

@ReefDork 3 күн бұрын

👊

@vallycrem3830 4 ай бұрын

i reef dork.. some liquid mysis for fish go up my zhoas and they seem like burned and not open what i have to do?thanks

@alexpalazzo4956 3 жыл бұрын

Your Zoas look great. Were those the Utter Chaos and Sunny Ds I sent you many years ago?

@ReefDork 3 жыл бұрын

Possibly, can't remember now!

@Fishslayer04 2 жыл бұрын

how much will they grow in a month or two?

@fatttymclad 3 жыл бұрын

I love that zoa colony at the beginning. What's it called?

@ReefDork 3 жыл бұрын

Arc Woodstock Rainbow 🙂

@iLuziation_ 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, I made the experience that zoas are way happier with a dKH over 8.

@enzomontini758 3 жыл бұрын

Try a mushroom 🍄 garden Iv got 3 dedicated spots in my tank for them

@tanlony7532 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Alex, let's say one were installing an in-tank sump, where would he place the pump? Intake or outflow?

@ReefDork 3 жыл бұрын

The return pump? In the final chamber.

@tanlony7532 3 жыл бұрын

Ok so it should overflow into the sump like a standard sump, thanks.

@tanlony7532 3 жыл бұрын

Ok so it should overflow into the sump like a standard sump, thanks.

@rudra7615 3 жыл бұрын

Great video 1) How do you test for iodine? I've seen some reefers swear by them and from research, it seems to be a dose old school reefers used to do 2) You touched upon vermited snails..do you have them? How do you deal with them? I heard bumble bee snails help, but also instances where they don't eat them..seems like the vermited has no predators..an alpha snail!

@ReefDork 3 жыл бұрын

I only go by icp tests for iodine. If old schoolers do something, it's often good! I do have vermetids - i've added bumblebees but I'm not expecting them to do much! Someone needs to discover a vermetids eating nudibranch!

@rudra7615 3 жыл бұрын

@@ReefDork that would be great, even if they do, my six line wrasse would be going "mmmm free lunch" 😆

@polar_boi7823 3 жыл бұрын

I just recently got 4 frags... Eagle eyes, Roadioactive dragon eyes, kedds reds, and play boy bunnys, and they had some fruit loops hitchhikers on them

@deanfielding4411 3 жыл бұрын

What’s a fruit loop hitchhiker?

@polar_boi7823 3 жыл бұрын

@@deanfielding4411 I meant that there was a couple fruit loop zoas growing on the same frag as the play boy bunnys. So they weren't really "hitchhikers". Thanks for the question (・∀・)

@richardwalker4220 3 жыл бұрын

Where do u buy yr zoas?

@polar_boi7823 3 жыл бұрын

@@richardwalker4220 my lfs

@richardwalker4220 3 жыл бұрын

@@polar_boi7823 r u uk?

@PACman6N 2 жыл бұрын

can you let me know where to get a icp test done

@ReefDork 2 жыл бұрын

You can buy them from your lfs. Or Google aquarium icp test.

@reefcubedan2680 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Alex, I’m dosing the same ati iodine as you, just curious how much you dose, a day I’m doing 0.1 a day how much are you dosing or are you just making corrections off icps

@ReefDork 3 жыл бұрын

I went by icp test recommendations - I think I started at 1ml per week but it was a white ago now and I've since switched to red Sea trace

@KerpooHater 3 жыл бұрын

i sort of like the longer stalks, can the plant still spread healthily that way?

@ReefDork 3 жыл бұрын

Coral, not plant. They're hardy so probably yes, they just won't be their happiest so probably won't show their best colours/growth.

@KerpooHater 3 жыл бұрын

@@ReefDork oh whoops, too used to actual gardening, i know they aren't actual plants are there any varieties with longer stalks naturally? i really like parazoanthus gracilis and the classic brown/cinnamon palys for their more seperate looking polyps

@aqua.marine7971 2 жыл бұрын

I am thinking of getting this coral in my first salt water tank, do you recommend?

@ReefDork 2 жыл бұрын

Yep 🙂

@godofwarbill9746 2 жыл бұрын

I have a dragon face pipe fish in my nano tank I’m a beginner I’ve recently added a small zoa colony in my tank but the pipefish seems to be bothering them a lot hovering over them they close up and since then half of them haven’t even opened up , I don’t know what to do to treat the coral for them to be happy again and should I get rid of the pipefish ?

@ReefDork 2 жыл бұрын

The pipe fish won't be interested in the zoas but there might be tiny critters on the zoas he's interested in. Run it through a coral dip and see if anything drops off

@akvasvet 2 жыл бұрын

👍 👍 👍

@domingo-7 Жыл бұрын

👍

@georgeh4908 3 жыл бұрын

Are they mochavinci clowns? Could you recommend anywhere I could get a pair from?

@ReefDork 3 жыл бұрын

Close, Da Vincis. I see them in ReefKeeper Windsor regularly but if you're not local to there I can't help I'm afraid 😕

@georgeh4908 3 жыл бұрын

@@ReefDork couple hours drive for me, may be able to go at some point but your are just stunning!

@neilsreefaquarium9530 3 жыл бұрын

I do love a Zoa! Mine are stretching at the moment. I reduced the whites during the day for more blue and they don’t like it. Another reason for me to get Rads soon 😌

@neilsreefaquarium9530 3 жыл бұрын

@@gjcoralfarm6929 Will do. Thanks mate 🙂👍🏽

@bytime2762 2 жыл бұрын

How about alkalinity? what range do you keep it at? Thanks

@ReefDork 2 жыл бұрын

Around 7.5

@bytime2762 2 жыл бұрын

@@ReefDork Thanks

@min2oly 3 жыл бұрын

*How did you know I'm having a go at Zoa's...*

@dheebakselvarasa6836 2 жыл бұрын

What kind of sand you’re using ?

@ReefDork 2 жыл бұрын

Ati Fiji medium and large grain

@mathiaschwialkowski3347 3 жыл бұрын

Hi what are the Zoa at 1:10

@ReefDork 3 жыл бұрын

Sunny D on the left, utter chaos on the right

@les959 2 жыл бұрын

my utter choas are actually quite long, pretty sure they came from you ill move them about.

@jawon70 2 жыл бұрын

There still a mistery to me.I have 2 stones close to eachother.On one stone ther all open on the other stone there struggling to stay open.Weird

@ReefDork 2 жыл бұрын

I've had a similar issue in the past - it's worth dipping the sad frag just in case but sometimes this just happens 🤷

@33vialli 3 жыл бұрын

Just started dosing iodine,can't hurt

@33vialli 3 жыл бұрын

Don't know what I'm doing wrong , every Zoa I buy nether seems to thrive and spread but just about survive then usually just melt away after a few months.The laser lemons I got from you last year have nearly all disappeared, they were "ok" for months but didn't spread to the rock i placed them on and now have started to melt away.Only about half the polyps left than what I started with .think I'll give up with Zoas full stop.

@ReefDork 3 жыл бұрын

🙁

@33vialli 3 жыл бұрын

Actually apart from GSP and Xenia I can't seem to keep any other coral alive for any length of time.I have changed salt,ro unit , light, flow ,tested and tested and tested you name it I've tried it but I can't seem to grow any thing else,even a toad stool shrank and died in my tank!!!.Giving it to the end of the year then I'll throw the towel in get a bigger tank and go fish only.

@arsenioseslpodcast3143 Жыл бұрын

Interesting, I literally had zoas at the beginning of my reef tank I had bought. They thrived and grew. However, they began dying and I didn' tknow why. I never tested my water before, either, so I got some expensive zoas food and they still didn't survive. I finally tested my water for the first time and realized that everytime the water dehydrated, I put RODI without salt into th etank. So after checking the water for the first time, it was at .011! NO WONDER THEY DIED!

@hynos323 Жыл бұрын

Sorry, but this makes no sense. You’re supposed to top of water without any salt. If you keep adding salt water your salinity will keep rising. When your saltwater evaporates the salt remains. It does not evaporate with the water. That is why you only top off with plain unsalted water.

@athulsonyy 2 жыл бұрын

scared to try zoa cuz of palytoxin.. anyone want to talk me into buying one?

@ReefDork 2 жыл бұрын

You're 1,000 times more likely to get struck by lightning!

@leahnichol6665 7 ай бұрын

The toxin is only released if the zoo is cut. Take precautions if you are fragging them.

@Youmakele Жыл бұрын

Hello, is it true they are poisonous?

@ReefDork Жыл бұрын

Some palythoas are but you'll only ever know about it if you do something crazy like boil them

@Youmakele Жыл бұрын

@@ReefDork Thank you for the reply! So it’s not true that you can poison yourself while handling them? That’s kind of a relief, as I want to start a reef tank and was scared of some texts I read about Zoas.. gave up on planing them for myself.