zoo eaters

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Xtasia

Hi Christy.. a few questions... are they melting? are the parts of skirts missing.. any polyps half eatten? are they sliming over?

Sometimes when a colony is taken from the wild, the poor water quality stress kills the zoos...
Bacteria
Predators
Water quality
Irritation.

A cure all solution would be..

Cut off all melting zoos
freshwater and iodine dip the zoos.
use a powerhead to blow off slime and detritus.
Check for the brown zoo eating nudibranch crabs or snails... Remove with tweezer.
Do not place on sandbed b/c of spaghetti worm irritation.
Check around zoanthid placement area for possible irritants... ie:// other corals.. feather dusters, spit worm thingies
Place in high flow area until opened up and happy again.

In the spirit of Bev..a link. http://www.zoaid.com/index.php?modul...&g2_itemId=384

HTH.

Ivy to the rescue!

From what I see, they are just shrinking, sort of shrivelling up into non-existence.

Awesome link!!! I have two things from that website near zoos, the spaghetti worms and siphonid worms. However they have been near the zoos from the start. Its only since I added some zoos recently that I have noticed any problems but its not *those* zoos that are being affected (thank god, they were pricey!). Its a good thing I have zoo frags all over the place, so far I have had doubles of the munched zoos but I'm starting to worry for my prized ones. Plus they were just starting to mat out nicely and looked pretty darn good

Can you give me more info on the iodine dip? Concentration etc? Do I do both freshwater and iodine dip in succession?

Thanks