Wanted: Zoanthid eaters

[eastcoaster1]

My tank is getting over run with one form of a fast growing zoanthid.
Anyone know where I can purchase something that will eat them?
I was thinking that the sun dial snails would be best, since they would be fairly easy to remove when most of the zoanthids were consumed, or they would just starve when the food source was depleted.

Other suggestions welcome.

 

[650-IS350]

Just frag them and make some money out of it ( instead of destroying them ) or Trade them for other corals, equipment , etc.

 

[TKByrnes]

i agree with delsol650!!! what kind of zoa's? im sure someone will be interested in some.

 

[eastcoaster1]

delsol650 - I would if it didn't mean a complete tear down of my 120 gallon reef tank. At this point I've probably got 1.5 square feet of them growing on the live rock. It was cool at first, but now they are overgrowing my SPS, etc.
I'm not too keen on destroying them, but I think the disruption of removing them would undoubted lead to the death other coral, so it's a toss up.

I was hoping to introduce a predator that would trim them back to a more manageable level.

Also I don't mean to come across as being insensitive. I know they are a living creature and there are many people that would be glad to have my 'problem'.

 

[johndonaldson3]

smear small amounts of calk on them, a little at a time.

 

[650-IS350]

I was going to say Calk paste as well.. but just be carefull of posiblites of polluting your tank from massive zoa deaths and don't know the extent of any possiblity of palytoxin from all the deaths ???? My .02 cents is just bite the bullet, move some rocks needed to get zoos off, worst case scenario, you make new frags of SPS that you can sell off or trade...

 

[flyyyguy]

Too bad you didnt ask this question this summer. I had a clear solution in the form of a scribbled rabbitfish that would have been more than happy to oblige.

He was the 4th scribbled rabbit ive ever had and the only one that was a problem, but he cost me a ton in the 4 or 5 days he was in the tank before I could get him out. He was a zoa munching machine.