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OXIDES

Care level: easy

Agressiveness: passive

Lighting: moderate to high

Water flow: medium/moderate

Placement: middle to top

Water conditions: 73-80 degrees

dKH 8-12

pH 8.1-8.4

sg 1.023-1.025

Family: zoanthidae

Oxide is bright vivid orange zoa with a purple ring at the base of the skirt. They are colonial animals with multiple individual polyps that are attached to a plug, disc, or live rock rubble for you to purchase. The colony that these were fragged from started as a few polyps in an aquarium.

Each zoanthid has different lighting requirements. Start your new purchase near the bottom of your system and monitor its health and color. A zoanthids color will fade if it receives too much light or not enough light. So start your zoanthid near the bottom of your reef and slowly raise it toward the lights. Monitor the zoa after each move for 4-5 days. If the color changes or fades move it further down in the aquarium. Enough current is needed to carry nutrients to the colony. For continued good health of your coral frag they will also require the addition of iodine and other trace elements, along with food such as phytoplankton, marine snow, or other foods for filter feeders.

They will reproduce easily under the right conditions by budding ( splitting at base of polyp) and spread over surrounding rocks in the reef aquarium.

Photo: taken under Metal Halide 20K bulbs, no actinic lighting, and no flash.

Oxide

small: 5 polyps