Help with my Armour of God Palys

[bitwise]

I got my first frags (four in total) exactly one month ago. I started them with the plugs stuck in the sand.

Two of the paly frags have always looked happy and having been growing new polyps (mohawk paly & sunny d paly). One was doing so-so but now that I have moved it off the substrate it is doing better.

About a week ago I noticed that my AOG palys started to look funny. They took on a bell shape with their mouths extended upwards. A week before that I took 'em out to kill an aiptasia on the frag (entombed it with a bit of super glue). I haven't seen any since.

I've looked for hours on the internet to try to find what is causing them to look so down (bell shaped). I tried to sprinkle some cyclopeeze over the top of 'em with the pumps turned off about 5 days ago and I confirmed one of the heads took a piece. The next day this one polyp looked happy as can be while the rest of the polyps looked very unhappy. I though this could be it, I just need to feed these things. I tried the next day with no luck, these things don't seem to be showing much of a feeding response. Yesterday I tried moved them to up on one of my rocks to see if this would make the colony happier. This hasn't yielded any improvement.

Yesterday I noticed that one of the skirts on one of the polyps appears to be missing about 20% around the diameter and it's white where the skirt was. I have read online that if palys and zoas start to croak that creatures like pods will make quick work of them.

Please help. If I need to dip in Lugols or something like this please let me know I can grab this stuff tomorrow.

I appreciate any help, I'd like to turn this around, this is a very beautiful frag.

 

[bitwise]

I now believe this is the work of some sort of fungus. I'm going to dip the frag in Coral RX today and move it to an area with more flow (i don't have many such places in this tank).

Another polyp was looking odd yesterday and today a portion of the fleshy head piece is white, pinched, and the white part looks like it has very tiny bubbles in it (maybe 8-10 ~1 mm each).

The polyp that was looking bad previously is 90% retracted and the base of the polyp is very swollen, in addition there appears to be this brown shard sticking out of the base. I'm not sure if this is related.

I tried feeding cyclopeeze yesterday and was able to get a feeding response from a few of the polyps, albeit very sluggishly.

 

[bitwise]

Here is a better photo of what I'm dealing with. This is post 10 minute coral rx dip.

 

[reefwars]

Look for zoa eating nudibranchs late at night and look for their eggs, don't suppose you got an zoa hungry fish or crab on the rampage?

 

[Mael]

when any of my zoas have turn a dark color like that and umbrella'd it was because they caught/ate something they didn't like. Some also umbrella when pooping but it should be short term.