How is Pox transmitted?

[dark_stranger]

How is pox transmitted/passed on to other zoa's? Is it in the water channell?

 

[edwing206]

I would guess through contact but not certain. Are any of your colonies infected with it? Or are you just curious?

 

[gflat65]

In my limited experience with it, it seemed to travel the water column. I've have an infected colony in one area and then another in a separate location, but none of th eones in between. Maybe some are more susceptible than others? Every time I've had it, the tank temp had risen recently (4-5 degrees) and I hadn't done any WC's in a while. Getting temp in check and increasing WC's for a week or os seemed to fix it. That doesn't seem to have worked for most others, though...

 

[650-IS350]

I had the first zoa pox hit in the right side of my tank ( 100gal ), I left it for 2 days since I was busy but by the time I got to it, it affected 2 colonies on the left side.

 

[kawicivic]

for me it has been temperature triggered (a sudden drop for me when someone left the flue in the fireplace open and I had my heater in my skimmer... plenty of flow to keep the temps up in the summer but nowhere near enough for the winter). I also noticed that shaded zoos were hit harder. Furan2 worked well for treatment and it even seemed to cause growth. Each large pox on a zoo turned into a new head about 1 week after the Furan treatment. As for transmission it was completely random. I had a colony of blue zoos that was the worst and then some green ones that were a close second. I have some that never got treated bc they were hitchhikers in on rock. they are still infected and dont seem to have any effect on other zoos in the tank. I strongly think that it is stress related.