hypostatic Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 So a few of my zoas have been looking funky for the last few days: Regular looking zoas of the same morph directly to the right. Here's a closeup: anyone know what's up with this? Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Some of my zoas looked like that for a while when I was accidentally overdosing 2-part buffer. Sometimes they're mysterious though. Looks like some of them may be pooping zooxanthellae. Link to comment
hypostatic Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 Some of my zoas looked like that for a while when I was accidentally overdosing 2-part buffer. Sometimes they're mysterious though. Looks like some of them may be pooping zooxanthellae. It's weird because there's happy zoas of the same morph (but on a different mat?) like 1.5 inches away... Link to comment
yomon347 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Could be too much or not enough flow in that spot. Link to comment
Acielot Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Yeah my mohawks are doing the same thing. The daughter colony is looking great but the original frag looks identical to yours. I dipped in iodine and they perked up a little bit but they still aren't 100% Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 It might just be the photo, but to me even the "happy" zoas of the same morph look a little bit stressed. Any recent changes at all? new addition? big water change? Increase or decrease in light exposure? just throwing some ideas out there... Link to comment
hypostatic Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 It might just be the photo, but to me even the "happy" zoas of the same morph look a little bit stressed. Any recent changes at all? new addition? big water change? Increase or decrease in light exposure? just throwing some ideas out there... Really? The circled zoas are the "happy" ones I meant to point out: Link to comment
metrokat Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 zoas, funny animals. Got another picture of the green zoas that are behind these guys and next to the EE? Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 i have a frag of zoas that looks the same...all shriveled up like that. other zoas are doing awesome. sometimes zoas are worst than SPS...at least you know you screwed up with parameters with SPS. zoas just melt for no good reason... Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Really? The circled zoas are the "happy" ones I meant to point out: yup, the circled zoas are the ones I was talking about. They look just a little stressed to me, skirts not fully extended. But it's one photo, one angle, one moment in time...as Kat said, more pics, context might help diagnose. (or not, these being zoas) Link to comment
lkoechle Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I love and hate zoas. I can't be of any help, but they are some darn finicky creatures. Link to comment
metrokat Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Vitamin C dosing has helped my zoas. takes a couple of weeks for it to start working with daily dosing but it does work. Link to comment
lkoechle Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I did some googling because one of my new frags is starting to do the same thing and this came up: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/zoanthidbehfaqs.htm About 1/2 way down the page there's a photo of a polyp doing a similar thing. Their answer, "they sometimes just 'do' this... self-cleaning, digestion..." Not terribly helpful, but another idea. the mysterious ways of the zoa... -.- Link to comment
hypostatic Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 Oh zoas, you and your mysterious ways. Well, I did a water change and cleaned out the filter, changed the carbon. Maybe an improvement in water quality will help. Link to comment
lkoechle Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Well for my zoas at least it was too much flow. I have a mag 18 return and 2 mp40s on a 48 inch tank, so "high flow" would be an understatement. I had to dial down the 40s from 70 to 52 over 2 days and they look much happier today. Maybe the front zoas are getting too much flow? Or decided to be picky? My other zoas were fine with the higher flow, but two looked like yours and they are all in the same section of the tank. Link to comment
metrokat Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Got another picture of the green zoas that are behind these guys and next to the EE? Link to comment
hypostatic Posted January 29, 2015 Author Share Posted January 29, 2015 Got another picture of the green zoas that are behind these guys and next to the EE? lol i'll snap a better pic when I get home Link to comment
hypostatic Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 and in about 2 weeks that zoa strain is basically all gone... Link to comment
MikeTR Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 uhh so what ya do? nuffin? Link to comment
Lawnman Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I swear by this stuff http://brightwellaquatics.com/products/coralaminot.phpZ's and P's can do crazy things. I have watched polyps disappear and was told to start dosing it. I haven't lost any polyps since I started it a year ago. Link to comment
Acielot Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I'll give it a go maybe the nano will explode with growth. What's that other additive that everyone likes..aquavitro fuel is it? Link to comment
Uphoric Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I've had this same problem before, but they were fine the next day. Not sure what caused it. Link to comment
Lawnman Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I use the coral amino and Kent coral accel. I'll give it a go maybe the nano will explode with growth. What's that other additive that everyone likes..aquavitro fuel is it? Fuel use to give me cyano. Link to comment
hypostatic Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 uhh so what ya do? nuffin? Pretty much. It looks like some sort of disease that spread through the mat, so adjacent connected polyps slowly got infected. All other zoas are doing fine... I THINK... like my watermelons are "quickly" taking over that shelf, and I'm afraid of fragging them or anything in case they get sick too... I swear by this stuff http://brightwellaquatics.com/products/coralaminot.phpZ's and P's can do crazy things. I have watched polyps disappear and was told to start dosing it. I haven't lost any polyps since I started it a year ago. If only corals could speak.... I'm actually feeding my zoas a couple different things -- do you think that product if more effective than the amino acids the zoas would get from direct feeding? Link to comment
Lawnman Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Pretty much. It looks like some sort of disease that spread through the mat, so adjacent connected polyps slowly got infected. All other zoas are doing fine... I THINK... like my watermelons are "quickly" taking over that shelf, and I'm afraid of fragging them or anything in case they get sick too... If only corals could speak.... I'm actually feeding my zoas a couple different things -- do you think that product if more effective than the amino acids the zoas would get from direct feeding? Ow yeah direct feeding is really hard for most zoas. Tenor told me about the coral amino he is freaking genius when it comes to anything Z or P. If you think about a human body when it comes to aminos we have to eat a TON of food to get the same amount in 1 capsule. Link to comment
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