zoa identifacation

[reret10]

i picked up these at the lfs an hour ago and i dont know what kinds they are. Could someone identify them for me.

 

[Suboc]

watermelon, Green bay packer, radioactive dragon eye.

 

[reret10]

thanks a mill

 

[reret10]

some of the polyps closedand still have not opened is that normal

 

[Suboc]

yes id give them some time.

 

[reret10]

ok but the od thing is the ones that were open yesterday are closed now and the ones closed yesterday are open now

 

[cjk76]

Watch how much light you have on them. Make sure you aren't burning them.

 

[reret10]

they are mostly open but i may be burning them i will take the light of them for a bit thx

 

[Suboc]

What kind of lights are you running?

 

[reret10]

t5 coralife minilight i have moved them all over the tank and thy wont open. some do but all the green bay packers wont and most of the radioactive dragons wont either. I put them in one spot for a few hours then another for like 3 hours and i have ajusted the flow multiple times and they wont even start to open. i mean at the lfs they were all open and spectacular but now just about 30/200

 

[Suboc]

id put them on the bottom and leave them alone for a few days.

 

[reret10]

ok well i will try that can they go into the tank open up and then go into shock because the first day they all were open then less and less and now like 20

 

[Suboc]

probably cause you wont leave them alone. or your params are way off.

 

[reret10]

this is what they looked like about 5 minutes after the timer shut the lights off

 

[reret10]

my params are cool so i will just leave them a bunch of days

 

[Suboc]

Its hard to tell but the center of the picture, the zoas look like they hav white spots on them. Am I looking at that right?

 

[reret10]

ya a few have a mucusy substance on them and one has what looks like a dryed out tip

 

[reret10]

can dipping a coral hurt it?

 

[Suboc]

It can if you do it wrong. But I dip all of my zoas. I use Furan2.

 

[Suboc]

I have left some in th dip over night on accident and cam out the next morning and they were not doing too good.