White lesions / bumps on zoanthids. Discussion on treatment

I know man, I know.
How has your temp been in the tank? Has it been stable, even at night? Maybe clean your heaters and test them.
I think temp flux can play a role in this.
 
just throwing my 2 cents out there but has anyone tried a for-fish based anti-bacterial treatment like Mela-fix? what are your thoughts on that?
 
I never tried it.
Anti-Basterial solutions are always a big scare. Yet, it would be nice to see what kind of results an anti-bacterial solution would bring.
 
Hey froggie and Reef junkie
Deep here
well im abou thte try anything.This palgue has attack every zoo colony in my tank.I have tried everything and that is my next step.
I cant say more ,but its like a cancer on zoo and it sux.ive lost about 15 to 20 colonies and have 6 more in a holding tank ,dont know what to do ,but wait it out
Ronen
Ronen
 
GEEZ,, so glad I found this thread I no longer feel like I am going outta my mind..found a couple white dots on some zoas that are in the fragging tank yesterday decided to take a much closer look at my zoas upstairs after dealing with another tank crisis all zoas were open and fine ...this morning lights on looking again my colony of mean greens has white dots on 90% of the polyps pulled them fromt he tank and did a search to come up with this thread after reading thru and with my latest luck in the tank I decided to lugols and FW did then pull any loose polyps off .. well that kinda took the majority of the colony as all the plyps that had these spots just lifted rite off with the tweezers no pulling needed so now they are down inthe frag tank lower light high flow and hoping for the best .between this and loosing my tub blues in yesterdays tank adventures I am really contemplating getting outta my zoa passion:(
when things go wrong with the zoas they are worse than the SPS problems
 
interesting as my mean greens are being hit hard right now too. and i know one other local reefer that the mean greens were hit hard on.

not drawing any conclusions, just interesting!
 
Well this thing has taken over my zoos.Have to trash almost all my zoos about 30 colonies,Ihave tried everything.Tetracycline .peroxide dip ,FW lugol(which i think made it worse)Im going to look into other anti fungus sprays,since the zoos are goners trying new things wont do anything wosre then what they already are
 
what's the temp in your tank? I believe that bumping the temp up (~82-degrees) seemed to help it go away. Although I lost some of my nicer zoos, all colonies that are coming back strong now.
 
skyedolphan: I am really contemplating getting outta my zoa passion when things go wrong with the zoas they are worse than the SPS problems
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I agree...I've branched out into other types of corals as a result of this incident. (I also lost a lot of $$ worth of pink yumas last month.) I've since added 4 of my first sps and they are kicking butt...its nice to have a little success for awhile. I think when you look at all the issues with zoos (nudis, fungus, bacteria, favorite snack for some crabs and fish, these white spots, and other mysterious maladies that kill them), they are not what I would consider an "easy" coral...or at least not a "sure thing".
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6559148#post6559148 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jimsflies
I think when you look at all the issues with zoos (nudis, fungus, bacteria, favorite snack for some crabs and fish, these white spots, and other mysterious maladies that kill them), they are not what I would consider an "easy" coral...or at least not a "sure thing".
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Yep, they are very deceiving.

Honestly, temperature seems to be one of the common denominators here. I think most of us that have had problems earlier live in more temperate regions. For instance, my zoas were affected when temps began to change here in NY around Sept/Oct. Others are seeing the change later and I believe you guys live in less temperate areas.

There are also questions about each persons equipment. For instance, how long since the heaters were cleaned, how many heaters, the wattage of the heaters the proximity of the heaters to the corals...


Jim may be right, it just might be a slight temperature adjustment.
 
has anyone contacted New England Aquarium ,Some told me they might help ,Im going to give them a call in the morning to see if they might give a hand on this,Cant hurt.
Its been 1 week ,about 20 colonies i lost count and nothing is working ,nothing ,I tried one thing ,Athletes foot spary on one of the colonies that was infected ,seem to work better then anything,Im just that beat over this that im not even QTing them if i see the white lesion ,I just toss them in the trash.srry i lost this battle,but not the war.Im going to do other corals after this .over $1500 in zoo down the drain.
 
I aslo have some zoos with these white spots even my paly 's have it i have 1 colony that was almost completly gone and is making a comeback all i did to them was get them to completly close pullem out then i use a dropper on them and hit them with full strength seachem out of the bottle iodide let them sit for 30 seconds and rinse them in old tank water swish it arond for a couple seconds and put them right back where they were it seems to be working as at first only 3 would open now im up to 30 that open i do have one colony that has this brown crud on them and the iodide gets rid of it for 2 days before it comes back so im still working on that one think i might try a direct applicatition of peroxide to see if that helps
 
It was only a matter of time...
Here is a pic of some zoas that were hit hard with this affliction.
They're the sky blue ones in the middle of the pic and they're making a comeback.
I have another frag of them that is larger and healthier, but I cannot get a better pic of them.

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6567159#post6567159 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bigfoot610
I aslo have some zoos with these white spots even my paly 's have it i have 1 colony that was almost completly gone and is making a comeback all i did to them was get them to completly close pullem out then i use a dropper on them and hit them with full strength seachem out of the bottle iodide let them sit for 30 seconds and rinse them in old tank water swish it arond for a couple seconds and put them right back where they were it seems to be working as at first only 3 would open now im up to 30 that open i do have one colony that has this brown crud on them and the iodide gets rid of it for 2 days before it comes back so im still working on that one think i might try a direct applicatition of peroxide to see if that helps
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Ive used peroxide ,One thing i did notice that doin gall this to them is stressing them the hell out ,evenually they will die or not open.All them chemicals have to hurt them in some way
Is there some type of snails that eat that infection off the zoo,Isnt fungus a type of veg or algea ?(just asking not 100% sure about that)what happens in the wild if they get this white lesion if they get them at all their.
If it is (fungus)an algea of veg some cowrie snail should eat that crap ,all thou not reef safe ,it could be put in a QT tank .Just asking ,if im worng plz correct me ,But this killed lots of my zoo and im just trying to get as many ideas as poss with the help of everyone else
 
ReefJunkie
what are you doing to recover them? how long is it bfore you are seeing any comeback on them ? any info would help
Ive tried tetracycline but didnt help and Lugols ,Peroxide .but nothing is helping them
 
If it's the Orange with the Blue-ish center ones, then that's a sand grain. That colony (knock on wood) never had the affliction.
The sky blue ones still have some white spots, but they've been slowly going away over the last few months. I've been trying my hardest to just ignor them and it seems to be working.;)
 
cool
i took out all my infected zoo and trashed them .It was to much for me to handle.It seems to have stop the infection in my display tank.so im happy abou that ,lots of WC and poly filters good skimming too .well se what happens in the future,Im i bit sraced not knowing when it will be safe to put more zoo in my tank again,My ppes and some other colonies where not harmed by this ,That really funny thou ,my green zoos got clobbered by it as my others took a flu shot of some sort thk g-d
 
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