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10-23-2011, 02:29 AM
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zoas are actually quite finicky though some are very hardy others dont last and alot of them just melt away for numerous resons. Quote:
kinda sucks and def very misleading that zoas are a hardy coral they are quite sneaky and while they can do well and explode in growth in just a few short months they can then just melt away in a matter of days, very frustrating.
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10-23-2011, 12:54 PM
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I have had the same thing happen lately, I have had zoas for a couple of years, they were doing great, spreading looking beautiful then all of a sudden started shrinking.
I have been experimenting, I moved 2 colonies up in my tank where there is more flow, I left 2 colonies where they were and have done nothing but blow them off a bit and I moved 2 colonies out to a 10g and have been doing furan2 dips for pox, this was a little over a week ago. The 2 I moved up look bad, from the 2 I moved out, 1 looks a little better the other looks the same, the ones I left in place look the best, go figure. I have vitamin c on order and will start dosing soon, hope it helps. My skimmer has not been at its top performance lately and I also run biopellets, I am wondering if its to do with bacteria in the tank.
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10-23-2011, 01:39 PM
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I don't think so since dosing vitamin C is a form of carbon dosing and it does create a biofilm on things like pumps and glasses (I think I was dosing too much!), so it does help some bacterias to multiply. I don't know what it is about vitamin C that help them. Dosing vitamin C require a good skimming.
Instead of having algae on my glass now I have this gray/white film and it's greasy. It build up so that I have to clean it about every other day but my zoanthids are doing much better. Another thing is each time I dip my zoanthids in peroxyde, there are dozen of small bristle worms coming from the frag. I am guessing that those small baby worms are anoying the zoanthids. All those ichy detaching bristles can't be good. You can try dipping some of your affected zoanthids in peroxyde and see what come out. They usually perk up after such dip. Quote:
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10-23-2011, 05:11 PM
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Its also hard to remember that zoanthids come from all parts of the ocean. With some being a hundred feet down to others being exposed to air for hours as the tide moves in and out. Often they are grouped all together yet they may have very different needs. I've also lost 2 colonies recently with a different colony on the same rock surviving. It is unfortunate but the best that can be done is to learn from it and try to avoid it in the future.
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10-23-2011, 08:18 PM
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i would feed my zoanthid tank and it did quite well i had around 80 different colonys and i rarely had any melt away unless they were new or unhealthy to begin with if anythiong i took alot of zoas that didnt look well and turned them around.my zoa tank had low nitrates and phosphates and water changes every week.i didnt shoot for a low nutrient system and they seemed to like it , also they were pretty much the only corals in there.alot of them sat directly under a 250w halide,some liked it better in the shade took alot of moving to figure out what grew where once it looked good i left it alone and never touched it afterwards.i ran no carbon,didnt dip any of them.had a low bioload of 2 fish.wasnt dosing anything as well. i believe feeding them and changing water is where my success came from.zoas didnt do well in my 180 or my 11o mixed reefs so i started a small 33g just for zoas it was grown out completely with in 2 yrs.
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