Wut the heck!

So Ive had my reef started for a couple of months. I have a couple zoas and some mushrooms. How do I get this stuff to grow. I have plenty of light and the water parameters are fine. Wut am I doing wrong?

 

time. basically thats what it takes.

 

They take a while to grow... what do you have for lighting?

 

I have a compact light with 2 65w antic and 2 65w standard bulbs but I hardly use the white bulb

 

what size tank ? and as in standard bulbs, they arent high output whites?

 

Its a 29 gallon tank. It has 2 blue antic and 2 10000k

 

youve got enough wattage. should have the ho's on for at least 8 hrs a day i think. those corals wil llike that

 

ok, thanks

 

my zoas and mushrooms took about a month to start growing, and now they all think they're weeds in a rose garden. Little do they know they're my roses

The "buds" on zoas especially can be hard to see at first if they're growing between existing heads. Wait till lights are off and they close up then spot them with a flash light ... or nudge them gently with a finger to get them to close up. If there are little bumps between the larger polyps those are the new ones growing.

Some grow faster than others. I got a new blueish-purple zoa that started popping off new heads from day one, my "green bay packers" are much slower. In almost 2 months I am just barely seeing new heads on them.

Mushrooms.... they go at their own pace.

Are you spot feeding them? I feed all mine a couple times a week and I think that accounts for some of the rapid growth. That and I have MH lighting...

 

weather there wild caught or tank raised makes a difference to tank raised grow much faster then wild caught.