can I save them?

[yogisfriend]

I tried searching for my problem, but since I don't know what it's called . . .
This morning my zoas were fine. This evening, I noticed a patch about 2" square that had a white snotty looking growth. I tried to blow it off with a turkey baster and it didn't move. I poked it and it seems pretty solid. It is surrounding the zoa heads like it's trying to choke them.
Any ideas?

 

[discus010]

Any pics?

 

[Reef Junkie]

Like discus said, a pic would help greatly.
Also, how long have you had this colony?

 

[DensityMan]

Probably an agressively growing sponge (sponges are normally harmeless and indeed there are symbiotic exmples between zoas and sponges) or the mysterious zoanthid fungus/bacteria/plague.

 

[yogisfriend]

Ahhh, sadly no pics. I can't seem to find my digital camera. I broke the section off and put it in my qt so it couldn't spread. Unfortunately, I also have a chocolate chip star in the qt (my former LFS told me it was reef safe, and now it is banished). I thought I had the zoa colony protected enough, but I guess stars can also move rock--he ate it!

 

[whodah]

being as you cannot blow it off, i 2nd DensityMan!

(minus pics of course, heh!)

 

[gflat65]

Love the avatar, whodah.