Something eating my Zoanthids.

[Kimdive]

I 'had' a large colony of Zoanthids, but something was attacking them and there are a lot laying around on the sand. I have done a saltwater and iodine dip and I am hoping that will have killed what ever it was attacking them.

My question is a) If that is not enough to kill the critter, what other action should I take? As I have another Zoathids colony that I prey doesn't get eaten also.
b) Is there anyway I can attach the zoanthids back to the rock, as they all are opened up and look very healthy!

Thanks guy's for any advice you can give.

 

[650-IS350]

what fish do you have?

see of any of these guys in your tank?
http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?module=Gallery2&g2_itemId=384

 

[Kimdive]

The Zoanthids were actually in my boyfriends tank and a whole load of fish were nipping at them! Some of them had some algae on the top of them and we thought that the algae eating fish would stop after the algae was gone, of course they didn't LOL.

That's when we moved them to another tank that's on the same system with only 2 clown fish. I cleaned the tank 1 day and the water motion inside made around 40 of the zoathids fall to the sand! Like I said though, they have not been eaten as far as I can tell, other than counting them LOL.

So you think that the fish did this damage? I think I should clean up the tank, make all that will fall off, fall off and then I can monitor if the condition continues.

I think I did see one of those spiders though, b4 we got the zoanthids in the tank, as I remember thinking how cute it looked, as it looked like a mini dinosaur LOL.

Any suggestions other that looking at night on how to see if the spider is there?
Should I dip both Zoo rocks at the same time? As I have just the 2 colony's.

Thanks Charles for the help.

 

[650-IS350]

A dip never hurts also helps to do a upclose inspection. Use tweezers to pull of spiders. Wear gloves and have goggles as polyps can squirt

 

[Kimdive]

Would you suggest fresh water or iodine and saltwater dip to get rid of a spider?
Thanks

 

[650-IS350]

Nothing is proven with spiders yet. Maybe wrasses but for sure method is manual removal with spiders and upclose inspection.
Dip would be tankwater with either ( Lugols, TMPCC, Revive or other known dips ).