Grow out contest 2016-1
- Thread starter Sctip
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hopefully it turns around here soonYeah I have tested my water and nothing new it all checks out. I will probably test it again tomorrow and see if anything has changed in the last 5 days. It has just never opened for me. If somebody could try taking it I would be more than willing. I would rather save my money invested more than anything. What's weird is its in the same spot as all the other happy zoas.
That's terrible guys! Where have you been placing the zoa? High light, low light? High flow, low flow? What kind if light? What are your parameters?
Maybe others that are having success, can post their details. Maybe we can identify the issue.
For reference. Mine has a fully developed baby, half the size of first head. It is placed bottom front corner, of my 24gal biocube. High flow (well, high for my tank lol may be medium flow for others...). Have 2x Nanobox V3 LED array
channel 1= 3xNeutral White, 2xViolet, 2xLime
channel 2= 1xRebel Cyan, 1xBlue, 4xRoyal Blue
I'm running channel 1 at 30%, channel 2 at 60% on a natural daylight cycle, tied to Fiji, so coming up on shortest day of the year next month, has about 5 hours of "full" intensity, with 4-5 hours of ramp up and down. (Even though it's summer here, my tank is in the middle of winter lol)
Salinity:1.026, Ammonia: 0, nitrite: 0, nitrate: 3, phosphate: 0, calcium: 430, alkalinity: 8.5dkh, temp: 78deg.
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Maybe others that are having success, can post their details. Maybe we can identify the issue.
For reference. Mine has a fully developed baby, half the size of first head. It is placed bottom front corner, of my 24gal biocube. High flow (well, high for my tank lol may be medium flow for others...). Have 2x Nanobox V3 LED array
channel 1= 3xNeutral White, 2xViolet, 2xLime
channel 2= 1xRebel Cyan, 1xBlue, 4xRoyal Blue
I'm running channel 1 at 30%, channel 2 at 60% on a natural daylight cycle, tied to Fiji, so coming up on shortest day of the year next month, has about 5 hours of "full" intensity, with 4-5 hours of ramp up and down. (Even though it's summer here, my tank is in the middle of winter lol)
Salinity:1.026, Ammonia: 0, nitrite: 0, nitrate: 3, phosphate: 0, calcium: 430, alkalinity: 8.5dkh, temp: 78deg.
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I can get parameters tomorrow hopefully. I have had it in all sorts of light and flow areas but I moved it one last time to a medium to low light with moderate flow to see if that helps. I run a kessil a360we and sadly I already know my phosphates and nitrates will be a little higher than most just because I run a canister filter but that was because when I bought the tank 5 years ago I was only 11 and could not nearly afford a drilled tank with a sump. Luckily I'm upgrading this summer though. The water quality should be fine for them though I'm growing a wide range of corals including acros. I still can't figure out why only this zoa when I have so many others that are happy.
I have put my zoas in low light/low flow, med light with low flow and now I just put it in my frag tank yesterday so we'll see how that goes. One of the spots was on my frag rack in my tank where I have all my zoas which grow tremendously. I'll post my water conditions later when I get the chance. I haven't tested them in a week.