What's on my zoa?

[maxheadroom]

I noticed this 2 night ago. I tried to use a turkey baster to clean them, and i also did a FW dip last night. Water tested fine. Am-0; trates & trites 0; ph 8.4; 1.025; temps 79. Any ideas? Possibly just the fringes of the zoa? Am I getting freaked out for nothing? Sorry about the bad pic, but i have the 2 zoas in question circled.

 

[killingseed]

can you get a closer picture. maybe its an image of jesus or mary and you can sell it on ebay. sorry hard to tell. is it hard? sponge or barincal?

 

[maxheadroom]

Opps. Made it smaller. lol. Its the best pic i took out of 8. Its not hard, though.

 

[capture]

from just looking at the photo it looks like the rock is poking through. if you say that its not hard then not too sure what it could be.

 

[maxheadroom]

I tried to vacuum it off with a turkey baster and that didn't work. Nothing came off during the dip. Am i just paranoid?

 

[MonkeyKeeper911]

yea its zoanthids they r bullet proof put em under light and let him spread

 

[killingseed]

try to scape it off with tweasers

 

[flyyyguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11914462#post11914462 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MonkeyKeeper911
yea its zoanthids they r bullet proof put em under light and let him spread

I used to believe this...........but now that I have really gotten into them im not so sure I agree with this statement anymore. Im not asying they are difficult or even that i hae lots of problems per se....but bulletproof they are not.......

jmo

 

[maxheadroom]

those are the only 2 that won't open. I'll try ro scrape the off later and I'll try to snap some better pics.

 

[capture]

to be honest, id let them do there thing unless they have a film on them or spots or if other polyps begin to close around those, then i would worry a bit. Let them run their course and keep an eye on them for now.
i would guess that you would upset them more by scraping them instead of just leaving them alone.

 

[maxheadroom]

Here's a few more pics. Don't know if they'll help:

I ended up just leaving them alone.

 

[maxheadroom]

these 2 zoas still haven't opened yet. Should I cut them off and get them outta the tank?

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

are you sure they arent hard...the things on them...they look an aweful lot like foraminiferans....which a re zoa irritants...if the zoa dont open it will eventually die...

check out the zoaid.com id page fr all zoa predators and irritants...here is the link...to them..

zoa id .com