Brown Slime on Zoas- Help!

[Appaloosa1224]

I have a small frag of orange zoas that have this brown slime on them. I got these zoas last weekend, they were fine up until 2 days ago when they didn't open one day. I left for a day and came ack to find them covered in brown slime. All other corals including zoas are unaffected and fully opened and healthy. What is this? I tried to blow it off using a powerhead and that didn't work very well. Any dips or other treatments to try? I would really like to save these as a fellow reefer gave these to me and they are beautiful!

 

[killingseed]

picture would be helpful, but over all it sounds like a fungus infection. there is information about that here on RC in the zoa section about dipping. i believe you can do a furan 2 dip for that.

 

[dg13]

I have something similar on some of my zoas and all the dips talk about a white fungus - this is not white. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Lytehouse]

As suggested, pictures could help.

I had something on one colony that began to not open up. After reading and considering dips, I decided to clean them off first. couple long timers made suggestions how with either gentle tip of finger or very soft touch to very soft brush in front of a power head. Helped some. I eventually took them out and , really very carefully rubbed it off and moved them to little more flow. They opened up fully over couple days and have never closed again.

Might choose to opt for less invasive techniques first and save dips until this fails or you see something definite to worry about.

Good luck.....

 

[Lytehouse]

FYI,

I have a very small frag of tiny polyp zoas that quit opening just about the time you posted your first post. Did the same thing, tried to blow them off with power head and waited. Next day, brown film. rubbed it off and moved them to higher flow area. They started to open the next day (they were pretty mad about being rubbed). Big snail camped on them that evening, and ticked them off again, but they have opened progressively more and are open very widt this morning except for 1 polyp.

I know all our tanks are different. I think this is telling me I have some dead spots where I need to increase flow so this doesn't happen again. Any thoughts from more experienced?

 

[stardancer]

I have this brown stuff on my zoas too. I have sucked off with turkey baster because I was afraid it would spread. I once had a flower pot coral and it got something similiar on it. At that time everyone said to be careful not to spread it. My zoas are on a very large rock with other very large rocks on it. AND other zoas that have spread between 3 rocks. I don't see how I could get it out to dip. Is there any need to try to cut off the infected polyps? The colony that has spread over 3 very large rocks now is starting to get white tips on them covering about 3 percent of it of them. I am beginning to feel like I am not very good at this.

 

[stardancer]

What I meant about 3 percent was that only 3 percent of the zoas have been affected.