I got a colony of RDE's about 2 months ago from a member. They acclimated nicely and were doing ok for a while. Then they slowly started to disappear. First the center of the polyp would swell just a bit and become bulbous. Then the skirt would melt away. I've gone from about 80 polyps down to less than 10 healthy ones in about 3 weeks. All of the other zoa's in the tank are doing great, even a colony right next to the affected one. Any idea what could be wrong?
What happend to my zoo colony?
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zolovinglover
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Most likely they are not being fed enough meaty foods and are starving. The polyps are large enough to take brine shrimp, etc.
Flesh of the polyps that were still alive looked ok, whitish color just like the other colonies. I didn't dip at all. Nearly the whole colony is gone now. All that's left are a few stragglers that look like they'll make it out ok. I seperated them from the original colony and fragged them onto a smaller rock. I inspected the original rock and couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.
impur
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Here are some pics of the fungus/bacteria that i battled with. I tried a lot of different dips. Furan-2 worked best. I did 2 dips a week for 2 weeks, total of 4 dips with 2 days between the dips. I used 1 packet of Furan-2 in 1cup of RO water for 20min. All zoos showing the fungus went into the dip.
Here are the pics of the declining polyps. Notice the brown fungus growing on the closed ones.
These frags/colonies have all survived the dip and the fungus is now gone. All of the polyps lost color, but after a few extra weeks in QT they are back to normal.
Here are the pics of the declining polyps. Notice the brown fungus growing on the closed ones.
These frags/colonies have all survived the dip and the fungus is now gone. All of the polyps lost color, but after a few extra weeks in QT they are back to normal.
Well I just found another colony infected with the fungus. Luckily it seems I've caught it in time. Tonight I did a FW dip along with a dose of Seachem Reef Dip. It's all I could get on short notice at the LFS. It looks like it's primarily Iodine. I will post results when the colony recovers from the stress.
chrismhaase
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What does the iodine do in the dip? Can you just use lugol's iodine?
650-IS350
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DID the lugols dip for for fungus.. did not do jack squat... works good for other stuff though....
did the furan 2 dip as well... don't really know if that work well... I dipped all my zoo's ( affected/unaffected ) they really looked like crap after the dip ( twice in a week ) couldn't dip them again of fear of stressing them out more from the dips.
did the furan 2 dip as well... don't really know if that work well... I dipped all my zoo's ( affected/unaffected ) they really looked like crap after the dip ( twice in a week ) couldn't dip them again of fear of stressing them out more from the dips.
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