I've got 4 colonies of zoas and one of them seems to be having a rough time. After they were all glued in place, about a week later I saw one or two melt on the underside of one of my colonies.
My initial though was "okay, those ones are being smothered, they aren't getting light so they're dying." Then I started seeing it on the healthy ones directly in light.
I searched for any signs of predation and I got nothing until I cut off the affected areas. I saw a few isopods floating around in the container I had set the zoa in, and figured they're probably just eating dead tissue.
so I did a peroxide dip. 50/50 tank water to 3% peroxide for about 4 minutes. Rinsed them off and let them chill in the sand in low lighting. Now I've got one with a brown lesion and two or three with what look like zoa pox
. Not entirely sure where to go at this point. I'm leaning towards a furan dip because I figure it may be fungal? I isolated one after the dip and it SEEMS to be doing fine, but I have about 3 or 4 pods hanging around the base of it... I've hit a block
My initial though was "okay, those ones are being smothered, they aren't getting light so they're dying." Then I started seeing it on the healthy ones directly in light.
I searched for any signs of predation and I got nothing until I cut off the affected areas. I saw a few isopods floating around in the container I had set the zoa in, and figured they're probably just eating dead tissue.
so I did a peroxide dip. 50/50 tank water to 3% peroxide for about 4 minutes. Rinsed them off and let them chill in the sand in low lighting. Now I've got one with a brown lesion and two or three with what look like zoa pox
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