Bad news, need help!

[jhornik]

alright, I got something eating my zoa's and I can see the little buggers chomping on them when the lights are out, how do I kill the little fr's!

Thanks,

Josh

 

[Briney Dave]

Josh, reef 2 reef.com has some really good zoa keepers that have seen just about every pest under the zoa sun. Iodine dips work on a good number of the guys but not all. I have been really lucky in not getting anything worse than the red bugs. A pic or good verbal of what the critters look like will be a must

briney

ff

 

[jhornik]

I don't have a camerra good enough to get pics, but they look like a typical copepod just knawin on my zoa's! It's not a spider or a nudibranch i can tell that much.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Are you sure that they are eating your zoas or are they grooming the surroundings of the zoa. Are they new frags? Whenever I add a new frag plug with zoas on it..... That night the plugs are covered with amphipods. They must like whatever is on the plug.

 

[jhornik]

I'm not sure?!?! All I know is there was a healthy polyp last night and this morning it was just a nub being knawed on by amphipods

 

[MentalDragon]

That happened to me several years back. I thought they were eating them but actually they were eating the dead stuff or things around them. After about a week of the certain colonies being totally closed.... they opened back up once the waste around them were cleaned up. I hope that is the case with yours.