Zoa Colony Doomed. Time for science!

[tkeracer619]

I got a large rock of some really bright zoas a little over a week ago. Very nice zoas, within a few days it developed a white fungus.

I did an iodine/fw dip, removed the area in question........ did this twice a day for the last 4 days. It has gotten out of control and I have written the colony off for dead. I am going to try to frag a small area that seems to be un-effected..... so maybe I might get 10 polyps out of 200. I also applied iodine directly to the rock......

Anyways has anyone tried hydrogen peroxide with zoa fungus?

the wiki says "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified hydrogen peroxide as a Low Regulatory Priority (LRP) drug for use in controlling fungus on fish and fish eggs." Only reason I thought about its use.

I am going to bust the rock up today and dip the zoas in everything short of gasoline and see if I can stumble accross something that works. Any ideas?

Other things I am considering using.

-Gentian violet
-Phenoxyethanol
-Sodium chlorite
-Vat of boiling acid


I will be recording my results if I have any.

Thanks in advance.



Edit: Also, why does this fungus grow better in the dark? Can zoos handle 24 hour lights?

 

[dc_909]

I think people have tried, but with not much success.

 

[caddisfly]

I would stick with heavy iodine dips. In my experience, hydrogen peroxide has not helped with fungus. Also, try to remove everything underneath the zoos. A lot of the time fungus is caused by dying matter underneath the zoo colony. Hope this helps and good luck. Keep us posted

 

[edwing206]

have you tried furan 2?
http://www.zoaid.com/articles004.php

 

[jason9jay]

I used a 50/50 mix of H2O2 w/ro water and dipped for a short time to take care of a fungus problem on some acans. I've never tried for zoast though.

 

[zolovinglover]

In my humble experience, dip the zos in 1G of saltwater with 100 drops of Iodine Tincture ($2 at walgreens ) for 10 minutes, fungus never returned.

Also, if you remove affected areas, dab cut edges with q-tip in dipped in HP.