[chandigz]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

I think that splitting colony in many frags is the only way to go. I am really happy that I got to frag one polyp of my purple hornet that got lose before the colony started to shrivel...as that polyp is standing right beside the mother colony but it is not affected. It seem that the key is to have polyps that are not connected to the common mat. Seem that all zoanthids connected to the same mat are going at the same time. It's really really strange.

I am dosing Vitamine C right now trying to see if it will make a difference and bring back colony that are affected. I also dip them in furan-2 each day to see if that help. It's also very strange that when a colony is not affected by this "disease" it is nearly indestructible. I can cut off one polyp and glue it and within a week I have 4, 2 weeks and I have about 10...growing like crazy. I am managing to keep some specie but they are never in large enough number to sell any frag because of this. I am so afraid that if I sell a frag then I will lose the mother colony and have nothing left.

Man...this is frustrating! :*(

Ya i've been fragging my new colonies into several pieces in order to hope to have some or one survive. I try to keep back up of each type. I have been doing the 20% peroxide dips with some success. If I catch it soon enough it seems to help. It seemed to start when I picked up a few wild colonies so I don't know if it is so sort of disease/parasite/fungus. Mine often get a fibery brown/grey coating(fungus?) around the stock that often sluffs of after a H2O2 dip.