World's Sloweest Growing Coral

[texhorns98]

It has to be my Tubb's Blues zoas!

I've had the original plug on my frag rack for probably close to a year and have gone from 3 heads to 6. The rest of my zoos have flourished, but not this guy.

By the time I have enough to really show up in the tank, I'll probably be able to buy a colony for what I payed for the frag! My neon candy canes are a close second, btw...I've gotten 2 new heads in the same time frame.

 

[rdnelson]

Don't know about the Tubb's but my Neon Candy Cane grows like a weed. Started with three heads about 4-5 months ago, cut about 3 heads off for a friend and still have about 8-9 now. LOL

 

[containerman1]

+1 on the slow Tubbs and My mohawks grow like weeds.
With my darth Mauls grew as fast : )

texhorns98;767552 wrote: It has to be my Tubb's Blues zoas!

I've had the original plug on my frag rack for probably close to a year and have gone from 3 heads to 6. The rest of my zoos have flourished, but not this guy.

By the time I have enough to really show up in the tank, I'll probably be able to buy a colony for what I payed for the frag! My neon candy canes are a close second, btw...I've gotten 2 new heads in the same time frame.

 

[ff337]

I went from 4 polyps to 10 in a month with tubbs

Plus one on garf.

My slowest is rainbow nasuta.

 

[lt_tweak]

ya.. +1 tubbs blue def a slow grower :/
gonna have to try relocating them like suggested

 

[dine]

a beautiful chalice i picked up. had it 2 months and not one centimeter of growth

 

[frantz]

I also got tubbs from Feb swap meet. They started off slow in my 120 about 1/3 from bottom. I moved them to the from about 4 inches from the bottom, but still under almost direct light and i have at least 11 heads now. Very beautiful too.

 

[ripped tide]

Before I sold my tubbs, those things grew like wild fire. The weird thing was that when I would sell them, not many did well in other people's tanks.

 

[dawgface]

Amici;767662 wrote: My Tubbs were really fast growers. The key is to put then under a ledge mostly in the shade. They grow slower the more light you give them.

You want to talk about a slow coral? I have two words for you. Garf Bonsai.

+1 Garf, closely followed by my Scrolls-Turbinaria sp.

 

[thanh386]

I will agree with the scroll being slow, but Garf and runs blue are fast

 

[snowmansnow]

if you want your zoos to grow stop having such a healthy system haha...
and SCROLLS>>> GROW SLLLLLOOOW haha

B

 

[thanh386]

SnowManSnow;767851 wrote: if you want your zoos to grow stop having such a healthy system haha...
and SCROLLS>>> GROW SLLLLLOOOW haha

B

My zoa kill themselves alot. Like recently a while bunch of high ends does in the main tank for no apparent reason. But growing back again. Sometimes I wonder if my tank tries to give me a heart attack.

 

[texhorns98]

I'll move mine this afternoon then. It's been sitting on my frag rack which is near the top of the tank in the corner. Other zoas have done well there.

Edit: Speaking of zoa problems. I have one set that is infested with feather dusters! I pulled out the rock and put it in a bowl of water, trying to pick each one off with tweasers. They're so bad that the zoas won't even open sometimes.

 

[darren24]

Agree with shade. Tubbs look the best and grow the best in the shade.