Where is the best placement for this coral?

fangelillo01

fangelillo01

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Currently i have two frags of frogspawn, two frags of blasto and i bought a frag of these really nice purple zoas. Where is the best place to put them in? How close can they actually be to the frogspawn? when i get home i'm going to rearrange the tank
 
oneradtek

oneradtek

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moderate flow, most people i know including myself keep zoas on the middle to the bottom of the tank. the closest that they could be with out being harmed, IME, would be about 2 inches, to the frogspawn that is
 
bang guy

bang guy

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Euphyllias can generally be placed fairly close to each other but I keep any other type of coral that I want to keep at least 6" from a Euphyllia.
 
speg

speg

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As a general rule it's not smart to get any corals too close to each other. I've seen mushrooms send out these weird tentacles out of their mouths and MELT surrounding coral.
As far as placement: It depends on your lighting. With the frogspawn you can pretty much keep it anywhere but it does need at least moderate lighting. I have my frogspawn at the highest point of the tank in a medium-flow area and it's doing very well.
Zoas can take a variety of conditions. They seem to really be annoyed by large temp movements so try to keep your temp between 81-85F. I have some in very low light/very low flow all the way up to high light/high flow. Test them and move them around until they seem to open up well and then don't touch them.
The blastos (wells) like low light/low-moderate flow. Make sure you feed them.
 
fangelillo01

fangelillo01

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What do i feed them?? What i have been doin is melting down brine shrimp and placing a syringe above them is that good??
 
speg

speg

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that's good. The blastos are a pain to feed because you have to let the food sit on top of them until they shove it in their mouth. Brine is fine, mysis or fine-chopped silversides or other seafood would be good too.
 
fangelillo01

fangelillo01

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Wow thats crazy. I have two seperate frags with two nice sized heads on them and sometimes i see the one start to stick a couple tentacles out to the other one. Is this ok since they are the same type of coral? Also when i got them the one frag had these two tiny blue starfish on them what are they
 
xcali1985

xcali1985

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My Hammer reached out and killed a Mushroom in my tank also. It was amazing watching it do it. I've been to several aquariums that have saltwater tanks and I can tell you with 100% certainty that hammers, frogspawns, etc. can grow to the size of BASKETBALLS. In constantly checking mine daily to see if I need to harvest it if it starts to take over.
Currently my hammer is surrounded by a Green Spotted Mushroom, Finger Leather, Zoas, & A Bubble Coral all within 6 inches of the edge of it. It dosen't seem to reach out for them. But when I tried to save my Kenya Tree and moved it near it, it started stretching instantly.
What im thinking is that certain corals release a chemical that bothers it and it attacks it. My torch is well above the rest of my tank inhabitants and with water flow blowing it towards the glass.
My Frogspawn is next to some buttons and the red mushrooms that the hammer hated and they seem happy together.
 
mrdc

mrdc

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I also like the look of frogspawn placed horizontally in the tank. Wedge it between some rock like so ...
 
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