Palys killing off eagle eyes??

[rsxs1212]

I used to have a rock that was pretty much completely coverd in eagle eyes and there was one small paly now i have 6 palys and all my eagle eyes are either dead or stay closed almost all the time

i ahve about 5 left that open up

what gives??

it all happened so fast there wasnt much i thought i could do.. palys are fine and all other zoos in my tank are doing fine

 

[Peter Eichler]

The only problem I've witnessed with Palys is that they can often grow faster and squeeze out other zoanthids. That is not going to happen with just 6 palys though... I'd be more concerned about a possible predator or zoa pox before I'd suspect the Palys. Just to be sure a picture of the Palythoa and rock in question would be a good idea.

Here's a pic from my tank of a zoanthid that often comes in on rocks with eagle eyes, and the Paly here is often asociated with both of them. No signs of stress from the Zoanthus sp. being in close contact with the Protopalythoa sp. for almost a year in my tank.

 

[rsxs1212]

everything was doing fine.. like the eagles were growing great and the paly was pretty muc staying the same (only one used to be there) then all the sudden the paly started taking off and the eagles eyes started dieing off..

i dont see a picture by the way..

possibly an ro/di dip be useful here?? i guess ill have to get reading about some zoa diseases and predators but isnt it somewhat odd for palys to do great on the same rock?? i dunno

 

[Peter Eichler]

whoops...

I've never seen zoa pox on a Protopaly and it's fairly common that something that will bother a Zoanthus sp. won't phase a Paly, and vice versa.

 

[rsxs1212]

so are palys and zoanthus a different type of coral?? i thought they were in the same genus kind of but just a different size and coloration to them.. allright.. my palys are much larger that the ones in your picture.. they are about 1.5-2inch diameter... lol they are pretty massive.. unless the zoas in the picture are bigger ones as well..

like i said reading time

 

[650-IS350]

Paly is a palythoa and zoa is zoanthid so different species... plus some paly's actually can devour smaller stuff like pellets, mysis and other stuff... but so can some zoanthus gigantus too. but from what i've seen the only way a paly can kill a zoo is by overgrowing it and not allowing the zoanthid to gain light as a food source and slowly starve it...

Not a zoa/paly expert but an enthusiast.

 

[rsxs1212]

yeah my palys will catch pellets when i feed them then they eat them almost like an anemone does

 

[deelucky]

i find palys to be more aggressive so stinging could be a problem.