Help with my zoas, please

[Josh125]

Hello all, I have zoos that refuse to open. I gave them the "dip" yesterday to no avail.

They haven't opened in a week or so while the other corals in the tank look A ok. I have moved them from the bottom of the tank to the top, and back down again and still nothing.

I can't see any egg sacks and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary fall off them yesterday in the dip.

I am running a 250watt 14K phoenix lamp over a 58 gallon tank, the specs can me seen in my build thread, red house.

I just did my weekly water change this morning and will wait a bit before running the number.

Any ideas off the top of your head?

 

[acrylic_300]

I would just leave them alone for a while and stop moving them. Sometimes just moving them will cause them to close up for a couple days. More so if they are red or orange zoas.

Make sure another coral didn't sting them... or get too close. Make sure they have a little flow on them.

 

[Nht8134]

Acrylic,

you mentioned that orange zoas are more susceptible to be closed for a long time? Are these known for such a thing? Ihave a frag of about 6 polyps of some orange zoas and they have been closed and not looking well for days now. Anything I can do? How do I diagnose of any kind of disease or ailments of something going wrong?

 

[MarvinsReef]

it's so hard to diagnose anything without pic representation.. could you guys get some current pics of what your zoas look like... sometimes, zoas just close to clean themselves for a couple of days.. use to freak me out but I got use to it.. as long as the polyps look healthy, nothing stinging them, and no signs of predators, then I think they should bounce back.. some take longer than others to open.. I had a 2 polyps frag of PPE no open for almost 2 months, then opened but didn't look very good (very small compared to their PPE cousin frags)... but after 2 or 3 weeks, they were normal again...

sorry for the long post... just talking from my experience...

Marvin