New Duncan and Zoathids - and they opened!

[yote]

Feeding them will make them grow quicker,no doubt about that.
Sounds there doing great.

[lightcs4]

Yeah, I think they are doing well. The Duncans are opened under the LEDs. The research I did said they would normally be opened 24/7. The orange Zoathids are opening each morning (all of them, around 30).

I am going to take out the three heads of green Zoathids as they aren't responding to being touched by the scrub pad I use for cleaning. Shame, they looked really nice when opened at the LFS.

[dustin_P74]

i would give the green zoas some more time or you could move them up higher to the light

[lightcs4]

It won't hurt to leave them in another week or two. It's been three weeks already. I'll go ahead and wait a bit longer. Thanks.

[Piggy]

I would leave them. I have zoas that took over two months to open. As long as their stems(not sure of the real name)are healthy looking their fine.

[lightcs4]

Wow, you must be very patient. Two months is a long time. I'll leave them. There is still some purple in the heads, they just don't look like they are doing anything. They aren't hurting anything though and I don't plan on making any new purchases for at least a few weeks, maybe a couple months, so I don't need the room. Not like there isn't plenty of room as it is.

[lightcs4]

Since everyone likes pics - and since I got the new camera, here are some new pics. I used GIMP to resize them, in case anybody is looking for a free editing tool. It's not quite Photoshop, but has some heavy duty editing tools and comes in both Linux and Windows version (Mac too, I think).

My favorite! There are three heads, but it is hard to see the two behind the larger one:


Two of the same Zoanthid rock. They are bright orange in the center but I just can't get the camera to show it. Camera takes great pics of everthing else though.

[yote]

Those corals look great.
How about a FTS?

[lightcs4]

Originally Posted by yote

Those corals look great.
How about a FTS?

You know, there is a reason why I don't post the full tank .... there is so little in it ....

Ah well, here are a couple. I'll see if I can get a better one later tonight.

[lightcs4]

OK, here is a shot from tonight. I may get one with just the actinics at a later time. I had to use the flash for this one.