zoa pox

[Bruno21447]

need help i tried dipping them in coral rx and tried RO dip. they are just getting worse. it is a zoa dominate tank 29g. Anything else I can try?

 

[organism]

I think Furan dips are the only sure way to get rid of zoapox, chances are there's some at your LFS. Do a search for furan zoa pox and the dip thread should come up, I'd get to it asap though since that stuff can eat them up fast, hth

 

[Bruno21447]

k thanx alot hopefully can find some tomorrow

 

[organism]

Most LFS have them, usually they're in the freshwater section.

 

[Nicodemayo]

I had a large colony that had a zoa pox and it got pretty bad. I tried a number of dips except except I never did try Furan 2 because I wanted to see if my next method worked. I found a thread with a guy mentioning he put alittle more flow on the colony with a powerhead and would physically go through the colony and pop the little "zit" looking things containing the white goop. I was concerned that the pox would spread to my other zoas but I found multiple people that tried this method and never saw it spread. I have about 30 different types of zoas so this was a major concern for me. I decided to take a risk and it worked wonderfully. I pointed a little nano koralia toward the colony just far enough away from the polyps so they wouldn't stay closed out of irritation and poked these little zits with a tiny flathead screwdriver once a day at new spots over the course of a week or less. You'd be surprised how quickly the polys healed from literally having holes in the stalks of the polyp from where i popped the zits. This colony is pretty massive, probably about the size of two softballs side by side. Anyway, its been about 3 months since my "treatment" and I haven't seen the pox crop up since. I hear great things about furan 2 but the above method worked wonders for me so I never gave it a shot.

 

[Sebastian J.]

A shop owner I know who has a high turnover of Zoas also suggests to manually squeeze out the pox with pincers, then place the colony in a high-flow area under blue light only (or in a general low-light area if blue light only isn't possible).

 

[Matthew91]

Do you have any pictures? How severe is it?

 

[khawyc]

i did manually squeeze out the pox & dip in furan2, it work. but after several months, the pox come back again. actually what's zoa pox????