The Green Bay Packer Zoa (Zoanthus sp.) is a legendary, high-contrast entry-level collector zoanthid named for its striking color palette that mirrors the iconic NFL team’s green and gold. Renowned across the hobby as one of the hardiest and most prolific growing soft corals of all time, this classic cultivar features a brilliant metallic bright-yellow to golden-orange face disc, centered around a pale green mouth, and encircled by long, vibrant emerald-to-lime green skirt tentacles that pop intensely under blue actinic LEDs.
Coloration: Radiant metallic bright-yellow to golden-orange oral disc, highlighted by a light green mouth and crowned with long, vibrant emerald-to-lime green skirt tentacles.
Growth Pattern: Colonial mat (encrusts rapidly across rockwork, ceramic plugs, and sandbed tiles, forming dense, multi-polyp carpet mats). Sold as 2-3 polyps.
Lighting: Low to Moderate (PAR 75–125).
Water Flow: Low to Moderate (Gentle, indirect sweeping current).
Feeding: Photosynthetic; responds well to optional target feeding with micro-plankton powders, coral amino acids, or liquid feeds to encourage rapid budding.
Aggressiveness: Peaceful (safe to group alongside other Zoanthus cultivars on a shared zoa garden structure).
Care Level: Easy (Exceptionally hardy, resilient, and highly forgiving, making it a premier starter zoanthid for new reef tanks).
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