Hi everyone,
This is my first time buying corals, so I'm trying to be very thorough, and trying to do as much research as possible but I can use some help.
I bought a bunch of coral frags about 4 days ago, and some of my zoas have opened up, while others have not, I understand that some zoas can be very temperamental, so I'm giving it a bit more time and hopefully they'll open up.
Currently they are in my 10g quarantine tank.
They were dipped with coral revive for ~10 minutes before going in the quarantine.
The light is a zetlight nano touch LED light, I think this should be sufficient in a 10 gal tank.
water:
Mag - 1290
calcium - 450
Alk - 9.5-10
PH - 8.2
Nitrates - 0.2-0.5
Ammonia/nitrites - 0
Salinity - 1.025
It is a frag, which was completely open and doing fine when I purchased it from a fellow reefer.
I believe they are Kamikazi zoanthids.
There are no additives, the only flow is from a HOB Tetra 10 filter, I think this might not be enough flow? should I add a korila nano powerhead?
The crucial part: Not all the zoa heads opened up in the frag, but most of them did the next day. On day 2, I noticed that there was a giant aptasia hidden in the middle of the colony. So 2 days ago, I used aptasia x on the aptasia, because from my bit of research, it was concluded that the aptasia x won't be harmful to the zoas. The aptasia ate most of the aptasia x, with very minimal amounts landing on/hitting the zoa heads. As far as I saw, the aptasia x shouldn't have gotten inside any of the zoa heads, because I did it at night time when all the zoa heads were closed to begin with.
This morning, 1.5 days later, the aptasia is gone, but the zoas remain closed. They seem to have sort of white "dot" on them.
Now, I'm not sure if this is them being "hurt" by the aptasia x ? or is this nothing to be concerned about? or if this is in fact, zoa pox.
Like I said, this is my first shot at corals, so I'm still new at recognizing/identifying coral disease/parasites.
There are 2 pictures, one of them with red circles outlining the issue, and the other one without the distracting red circles.
Thanks for looking:
Is this zoa pox? aptasia x hurting them? nothing at all?
Any help is much appreciated, thank you in advance.
This is my first time buying corals, so I'm trying to be very thorough, and trying to do as much research as possible but I can use some help.
I bought a bunch of coral frags about 4 days ago, and some of my zoas have opened up, while others have not, I understand that some zoas can be very temperamental, so I'm giving it a bit more time and hopefully they'll open up.
Currently they are in my 10g quarantine tank.
They were dipped with coral revive for ~10 minutes before going in the quarantine.
The light is a zetlight nano touch LED light, I think this should be sufficient in a 10 gal tank.
water:
Mag - 1290
calcium - 450
Alk - 9.5-10
PH - 8.2
Nitrates - 0.2-0.5
Ammonia/nitrites - 0
Salinity - 1.025
It is a frag, which was completely open and doing fine when I purchased it from a fellow reefer.
I believe they are Kamikazi zoanthids.
There are no additives, the only flow is from a HOB Tetra 10 filter, I think this might not be enough flow? should I add a korila nano powerhead?
The crucial part: Not all the zoa heads opened up in the frag, but most of them did the next day. On day 2, I noticed that there was a giant aptasia hidden in the middle of the colony. So 2 days ago, I used aptasia x on the aptasia, because from my bit of research, it was concluded that the aptasia x won't be harmful to the zoas. The aptasia ate most of the aptasia x, with very minimal amounts landing on/hitting the zoa heads. As far as I saw, the aptasia x shouldn't have gotten inside any of the zoa heads, because I did it at night time when all the zoa heads were closed to begin with.
This morning, 1.5 days later, the aptasia is gone, but the zoas remain closed. They seem to have sort of white "dot" on them.
Now, I'm not sure if this is them being "hurt" by the aptasia x ? or is this nothing to be concerned about? or if this is in fact, zoa pox.
Like I said, this is my first shot at corals, so I'm still new at recognizing/identifying coral disease/parasites.
There are 2 pictures, one of them with red circles outlining the issue, and the other one without the distracting red circles.
Thanks for looking:
Is this zoa pox? aptasia x hurting them? nothing at all?
Any help is much appreciated, thank you in advance.
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