Are my zoa goners?

[spikey114]

I bought some superduperman zoas over a month ago and they never opened up. It doesn't seem like they melted just small and closed up. Any ideas?

Latest parameters
PH - 8
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 20
Alk - 9.1
CA - 490
Mg - 1840

Mg is really high but I don't think it affected zoas. Plus I have 8 other types and they are all doing great. Thanks

 

[reefer999]

Try to get your nitrates down to at least 5, your calcium down to the 450 range and your magnesium to the 1300-1400 range. You should see improvements

 

[650-IS350]

looks like algae or fungus growth.. I'd do a peroxide dip 1part Hydo to 4 part water.

Usually kills all algae off the coral and plug. If the Zoa is healthy it should easily survive it.

Do some water changes to take off the Nitrate

 

[Ryannn]

Definitely dip them with the above mentioned solution.

Also, one thing that I have found to be beneficial is to go through with a turkey baster at least once a week and blow off the mats of my Zoas. It irritates them, and they close up, but when they are open all day there is a tendency to build up detritus under their heads where the flow isn't as good. Over time, this builds up.

 

[650-IS350]

yep at least once a week or 2, turkey baster to blow water thru the polyps to move dirt, dietrius and crud off and around the polyps.

 

[d-man]

When I was dosing tech M to try to eradicate my bryopsis, the mag got to 2200. My Rastas closed big time. I thought they were goners. A water change or two later and no more dosing and they are back to normal and flourishing well.

 

[liven learn]

Try chemiclean ime best thing for zoas. Peroxide dip.is good just takes too long for them to open back up for me.

 

[Mpup]

Any update?

 

[spikey114]

Yeah. I didn't do the dip Ike people mentioned because one of my turbo snail actually went through it and ate the algae clean off them. They were still closed afterward and around thanksgiving I dipped them in furan-2 to see if it would help. I had a small nudibrach attack and was dipping my BBEB because one in the colony died from being eaten and I didn't want the rest of the colony to get an infection. I'll make a separate post about that. The superduperman are doing a lot better now since the dip. Initially when they first started opening up from being closed for over a month the entire zoa was purple. Even the inside when it opened up. Now it looks like it's gaining it's color back. I'll try to post a pic tomorrow. Thanks all

 

[spikey114]

This is what they look like at the moment

 

[spikey114]

Sorry tapatalk crashed

 

[Mpup]

Much happier!

 

[2012Denali]

Yeah looking pretty good, dipping is never really a bad idea tho