Polypnewbie
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Why are my eagle eye polyps dying?
A while ago I posted here about a blue worm that appeared for seconds. I also then posted about an odd worm looking thing on the front of my aquarium glass. This should be the first picture.
Since then there have been a steady appearance of about 3 small tan worms a week in the top back corner of my tank. This should be the second picture.
The worm looking things are the only thing I can think of that made things any different before my zoas started dying off. It could be unrelated for all I know.
I noticed one day, an entire section of zoas that had been doing poorly were gone off the rock. My tank contains one pink cerameco Rock and my small rock with the zoas. So for them to be gone was surprising to say the least. There are no hiding places.
I then noticed another section dying off very fast within the next few weeks. Again, when they were gone they wound up showing nowhere in a very open tank. In the past, some of the zoas would fall off, but I was able to see them and to glue them back into the holes in the rock and had them thrive.
So the disappearance of polyps altogether that, granted, were not doing well, but were not dead is still disturbing.
I knew I was in trouble a few days ago when the ones on top started shrinking. They are the ones that always did well being closest to the light on top. It's hard to tell from the picture something's wrong, but relative to how they used to be, they have shrunken dramatically. This should be the third picture.
This is the process that appears to be happening. The tips start to turn black. Then they are dead and gone within a few days. Totally gone. The fourth picture should be a closeup of one of the polyps going through this.
Also, as of this past week, a white algae or white mold is starting to cover the substrate. I have had algae problems but never white. I am wondering if the dead polyps are getting somehow semi pulled under the substrate so I can't see them and they are growing the white mold. This should be the fifth picture.
Again the only inhabitant of my tank is this one rock with eagle eye polyps. It did come with hitch hikers. There are vermetid snails and red tube worms. I take out the brown worms when I spot then and put them into a small goldfish bowl I have. (The bowl contains asterina starfish that also hitch hiked in, but I kept finding them on the zoas way back in May. There were aiptasia too; but they died off within 2 months once I moved then into the bowl.)
I wanted to include everything I could think of because I don't know what may be a key piece of information. Sorry it's so long. Please help if you know what's wrong.
Also please keep in mind when you're looking at my pictures, my pictures always seem to post sideways against my wishes.
A while ago I posted here about a blue worm that appeared for seconds. I also then posted about an odd worm looking thing on the front of my aquarium glass. This should be the first picture.
Since then there have been a steady appearance of about 3 small tan worms a week in the top back corner of my tank. This should be the second picture.
The worm looking things are the only thing I can think of that made things any different before my zoas started dying off. It could be unrelated for all I know.
I noticed one day, an entire section of zoas that had been doing poorly were gone off the rock. My tank contains one pink cerameco Rock and my small rock with the zoas. So for them to be gone was surprising to say the least. There are no hiding places.
I then noticed another section dying off very fast within the next few weeks. Again, when they were gone they wound up showing nowhere in a very open tank. In the past, some of the zoas would fall off, but I was able to see them and to glue them back into the holes in the rock and had them thrive.
So the disappearance of polyps altogether that, granted, were not doing well, but were not dead is still disturbing.
I knew I was in trouble a few days ago when the ones on top started shrinking. They are the ones that always did well being closest to the light on top. It's hard to tell from the picture something's wrong, but relative to how they used to be, they have shrunken dramatically. This should be the third picture.
This is the process that appears to be happening. The tips start to turn black. Then they are dead and gone within a few days. Totally gone. The fourth picture should be a closeup of one of the polyps going through this.
Also, as of this past week, a white algae or white mold is starting to cover the substrate. I have had algae problems but never white. I am wondering if the dead polyps are getting somehow semi pulled under the substrate so I can't see them and they are growing the white mold. This should be the fifth picture.
Again the only inhabitant of my tank is this one rock with eagle eye polyps. It did come with hitch hikers. There are vermetid snails and red tube worms. I take out the brown worms when I spot then and put them into a small goldfish bowl I have. (The bowl contains asterina starfish that also hitch hiked in, but I kept finding them on the zoas way back in May. There were aiptasia too; but they died off within 2 months once I moved then into the bowl.)
I wanted to include everything I could think of because I don't know what may be a key piece of information. Sorry it's so long. Please help if you know what's wrong.
Also please keep in mind when you're looking at my pictures, my pictures always seem to post sideways against my wishes.
