That's why I bought my copperband butterfly as they don't sleep and hunt those nasty amphipods all night. I got rid of them nearly to 99% and only see a rare amphipods here and there (very rare now).
But the real thing that helped my zoanthids is dosing with vitamine C and I have been doing this for over 6 months now.
Mine all seem to much prefer being close to the metal halide and strong flow. They need feeding as well and they seem to do well with Chromaplex, fauna marin food and Reef Energy A and B.
Some zoanthids are nearly impossible to keep (thinking blue and purple hornets) and some are nearly undestructible (like the pink and gold paly, rainbow paly, armageddon and a lot of paly).
I have theared apart those pink and gold only to seem them sprout all over the place like crazy. can't kill those, no matter what.
Oh, and they HATE water change, so I do them as little as I can. I prefer dosing instead and do water change once a month.
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Originally Posted by canadianbudz604
Pods will pick at them, I just had the same problem with my gold zoas. Stayed up late a few tinmes and watched them eat them.
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