Are these Zoa Pox?

BigKahuna

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Doing research around makes me wonder if they are ZoaPox because they look like little spheroids attached to the Zoanthids and I always though Pox were more a bulge but I'm not so sure. All the other colonies are doing OK in different parts of the tank and even a different morph on the other side of the rock contacting this colony are looking OK. I've been looking around for predators but don't see anything munching on the colony except a few bristle worms munching on some necrotic tissue. My parameters are pretty good at Nitrate 0, Ph 8.1-8.2, my PO4 has crept up as of late probably from moving over to biopellets. I intend to add back GFO to help that but my PO4's have always tended to be high. The Zoas started out about a year ago filling up about half a frag plug but now cover an entire rock nearly the size of grapefruit. Any help would be appreciated. If it is Pox hat do people recommend? Furan 2?
 
Not zoa pox but difinately irratators. I would dip and pull them off with tweezers or if you can gently brush them with a toothbrush to see if that would remove them.
 
Thanks for the responses. Yeah I kinda didn't think they were the pox but am a loss at what they could be. They vary in size but all seem to be nearly perfectly spherical little white egg like things? Nudi eggs are like ribbons right? They are apparently attached to the zoas very well, they don't blow off with a firm turkey baster blast. I haven't added a new invert in over a year so it's not some new hitchhiker likely. I did add a couple of new Anthias a few weeks ago but no water came in with them.

The next question is what kind of generalized dip should I do if I don't have a true target in mind? Also moving them into more flow couldn't hurt either I guess.
 
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