woke up to white stuff on zoanthids!?

[Ding2daDong]

Well after putting on the lights I see that a colony of zoanthids has white patches all over it and over 20+ zoanthids are missing from one section? These have been in my tank for over 4 months and have been doing great. All my water par. are good. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Matthew

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[dc_909]

Can you get a better close-up?

Could be fungus or Zoa pox

 

[Ding2daDong]

here are some better pictures. Please if anyone can help me out I dont want to just lose a whole colony. Oh and some of the white bumps are on many of my zoanthids when closed, but they continue to open everyday like there fine. The white spots are not moving either. Any help would be greatly appreciated,

-Matthew

Oh and only this colony has been effected.

 

[Questin]

http://www.zoaid.com/articles004.php

It can spread form what people have said

 

[dc_909]

Looks like zoa pox.


Check this out.
http://zoaid.com/articles004.php

 

[Ding2daDong]

1 capsule of Furan

????

Anyone know where I can get this stuff? I dont want to lose my full tank of zoanthids!!!

Or is there any other types of treatment?



-Matthew:sad2:

 

[dc_909]

You can get that any any LFS under medications

 

[Ding2daDong]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9445091#post9445091 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dc_909
You can get that any any LFS under medications

so is there any other way to get rid of this stuff? Its to late for LFS so I guess I will have to wait it out. Will lugols iodine and fresh water do anything?

Thanks

-Matthew

 

[Ding2daDong]

Ok, did more research. I need Furan 2 and some ro water. Thanks everyone for the article.

Would this treatment hurt any other corals in my tank? I will be doing the treatment in buckets but will end up putting them back into my system.

-Matt

 

[geoxman]

No
and I hate Solomon zoos-good luck

 

[Ding2daDong]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9446163#post9446163 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by geoxman
No
and I hate Solomon zoos-good luck

solomon zoos?

-Matthew

 

[zeppelin]

Zoanthids from the Solomon Islands.

 

[chrisstie]

I had found out what zoa pox was a little too late for my zoos but had some success with fresh water\lugols in that it removed any encroaching algae while the pox was going on...

But the next time I see something like this happens its a furan 2 dip for them! (or however they did it in the pox article, i forget now)

Mine are slowly coming back but I lost a nice frag i had of some pinks with green mouths that irks me.

Good luck on recovering your zoos!!!

 

[Ding2daDong]

I will be picking up furan 2 in just a little bit. I have the dipping process set up and ready to go. I looked last night and its on about 5 diff. colonies, but its only affecting one right now. Wish me luck, I am going in to the zoa tox battle.

-Matthew

ps- is zoa pox contagious to other zoanthids or other corals??

Thanks

 

[Ding2daDong]

Ok, on my mission to find furan 2 I also found some nice pink zoanthids that have a nice sized montipora growing on the side... If I do a freshwater dip with iodine, will that kill the montipora? If I have to do the furan 2 dip on that will it kill the monti?

Please help me out here. I have them floating as we speak.

Thanks

-Matt