Strontium helping zoanthids?

[The Guy]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

I have noticed that when my zoanthids are shriveled and looking like they will melt, if I dose strontium they get better and back to normal the next day.

Coincidence? This is pretty much consistant now. I do water change once per month and when ever my zoanthids start to look bad and shriveled I add strontium and they recover nicely.

Because of that I now dose Seachem Reef Strontium once per week. After analysis of my water by a pro lab, I was told that my strontium level was low and since I started dosing this, it really seem to help my zoanthids and paly.

I also dose Lugol, but dosing Lugol alone never did seem to do a beneficial effect on the zoanthids. I have been dosing vitamine C for a year now and that seem to help a bit but they still had episode of melting/growing.

If you try it, let me know if it work for you. Hope I am not imagining things and these are not just a bunch of coincidences. Also feeding them with Fauna Marin Ultra Zoa get them growing nicely.

Good luck with your zoanthids

How much in % of water do change monthly, I find that my evaporation is about a gallon a day which works out to approx. 30 gallons a month so I dose weekly for KH and Calcium and everything seems good, and I have lots of zoes & paly's . Don't know much about Strontium so maybe I'll look into that. I only do a 25 - 30 % water change every couple of months, who knows whats right, there does not seem to be a standard it seems. here's a couple of pictures.