Zoa? I didn't even know her!

[Devi]

I have some eagle eyes. Cheap things I got from PETCO 2 years ago. They were in my nano thriving. I recently started a new tank. So I moved all my corals over. Acclimation to light for several days. Everything was doing well but the zoas never opened. I noticed some dino and hair algae was on this rock but was slowly dying off in the new tank from the better water quality. After a month I decided to do a HO2O dip. Six cups tank water to one of 3% HP. Bistle worms died and that Dino and some cyno all instantly died. It's been a week. Zoos look the same. Same zoos are on another rock in the tank doing fine. So what the heck is happening?

 

[reefwars]

I have some eagle eyes. Cheap things I got from PETCO 2 years ago. They were in my nano thriving. I recently started a new tank. So I moved all my corals over. Acclimation to light for several days. Everything was doing well but the zoas never opened. I noticed some dino and hair algae was on this rock but was slowly dying off in the new tank from the better water quality. After a month I decided to do a HO2O dip. Six cups tank water to one of 3% HP. Bistle worms died and that Dino and some cyno all instantly died. It's been a week. Zoos look the same. Same zoos are on another rock in the tank doing fine. So what the heck is happening?

Give them a bit of time and use a turkey baster to keep them clean , they don't like they are dying just adjusting most likely to the new water parameters dips will only stress them out if eh were fine before then allow some time to adjust a week isn't much and you can see they are getting there

Good luck

 

[Devi]

Thanks! They are coming back very slowly. What a bunch of drama queens! The dip I think was needed. I had some crazy algae on that rock, so sooner or later I was going to have to frag off the zoas or dip the whole damn rock. You should have seen that algae. It was all intertwined around each zoa. There must have been 100 bristle worms in that small rock too. Crazy. Sorry they had to die, but man!

 

[ajespo85]

Yeah, they don't seem to be dying, just give them time. I wouldn't dip them again either. What I would do is get a bottle of Iodine and drip that into your tank. Drip a little under the recommended dose on the bottle. That is the number 1 think I personally have used and saw better results with my zoas, as well as lps.