Zoa pox

[Redseadragon12]

The saga continues, I have identified what I believe to be zoapox in my tank. I have several 1000s of zoanthids and notice about half of them are closed up with little tiny white immobile spots all over the stalks. The spots are not raised and lie just below the outermost layer of tissue. They are probably some sort of fungal/viral infection that is on a rampage. I am assuming there is no way to stop/prevent this and most likely all of my zoas will succumb to it.... Anyone have any ideas? setting up a quarantine is out of the question as I dont not have the space or ability to remove all of these zoanthids from the aquarium.

 

[650-IS350]

you can get a 5gallon bucket or a 10-20gal plastic vat, put some tank water from your main tank. ( I use the water that I'm taking out from the tank during water changes ).
Manually remove each colony, frag etc... manually dip them.

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

 

[liven learn]

I've had it happen to me before also. Like ^ he said dip them. All of mine turned around in a few days and we're healthy again.

 

[ocelaris 1]

Me alegro mucho. Cuando te pase otra vez dale un baño en agua del acuario con unas gotas de betadine "Yodo"
Ayuda a eliminar muchos parásitos y infecciones.

 

[Redseadragon12]

I can do this but my question is wouldn't the causative agent still be in the aquarium? What's preventing them from just reacquiring it?

 

[knap_123]

Furan 2 once a day for 3 days. It will amaze you how well it works! And it is the only thing that will!

 

[Redseadragon12]

Well if I put them in a quarantine wouldn't i just leave them in there? for like 2-3 days? instead of dipping them all 3 separate times. That would take many many hours and LOTS of work.

 

[650-IS350]

no dip only,

you use the quarantine tank ( if available ) to house them while healing.

there is no quick easy way for pox.

 

[Redseadragon12]

Can I set up a hospital tank and treat them in furan 2 for like 2-3 days straight then add them back to the display?

 

[knap_123]

I wouldn't, I'd just go with what is known to work. But you could try a frag and see how it comes out for us.

 

[650-IS350]

furan and most meds if placed long with corals will just stress them to death IMO. which is why they are mostly dips, then rinsed off, then either placed in main tank or hospital tank to rest/recuperate

 

[Swip]

How many capsules of Furan 2 would I need for around 1L of water? Would 2 be enough?

 

[knap_123]

If you get api furan 2 it comes in a powder in a packet. Add 1 packet or enough you can't see through the water. You can't really overdose so no worries.

 

[Swip]

Ok, thanks. I hope this stuff really works.

 

[650-IS350]

Its currently the only known tried and proven med.

 

[Redseadragon12]

I tried dipping in LUgols, Furna, pimafix, melafix, and malachite green. Used standard dipping protocol and let them sit for even a little longer than normal and used a slightly higher dose. I did see one zoanthid with a slight recovery in the lugols dip but the others on the plug are not doing well so it is most likely an outlier.

Still, all of my smaller zonathids are doing amazing (rastas, all hornets, Emeralds of fire....) any of the ones that are small with short stalk. The larger ones are all dying a slow death....

I am thinking it may not be zoa pox at all and rather some sort of fungal infection.

 

[alejandro77]

i've used furan 2 from marine depot with success, dipping my zoas every other day helped to get rid of zoa pox, high flow as well.

 

[Redseadragon12]

i've used furan 2 from marine depot with success, dipping my zoas every other day helped to get rid of zoa pox, high flow as well.

Yes it didn't help in my case unfortunately. So I am assuming its not zoa pox. I can see very tiny whisky little hairs on the base of the zoas under 20x magnification so no idea what that is but it seems to be irritating them all to closing up halfways but not fully.

 

[650-IS350]

you can take pics of those and send them to invert forum to have Pogo or leslie ID it.