Zoas doing poorly...

[Mikefromaz]

By the way, my Palys, Duncans, brain, and leather corals are doing fine.

 

[Boom]

Mike, did you ever buy live rock, tank water and water mixing barrel from a woman in Maricopa?

 

[Mikefromaz]

No cant say that I have. My current tank was started from scratch with dry rock. The only live rock would be whatever minute pieces a few frags came on. Every coral piece gets a ten minute iodine dip before the display tank.

 

[Mark9]

Zoz's are doing better.
Calibrated the refractometer, found sq was high, brought it down,
The high SG caused mg to be way high.
After dropping the SG, had to up my dosing, alk was down to 6.3, ca to 390.
Back to basics, I guess I've been slipping.

 

[Mikefromaz]

Zoz's are doing better.
Calibrated the refractometer, found sq was high, brought it down,
The high SG caused mg to be way high.
After dropping the SG, had to up my dosing, alk was down to 6.3, ca to 390.
Back to basics, I guess I've been slipping.

Glad to hear your zoos are doing better. Mine were wierd....they really took off after i started dosing with ReefFuel, then they suddenly started down hill. Im wondering if it is possible to overdose with that stuff?

 

[Scribe]

I've got some calibration fluid on the way. I would be happy if that was my problems.

 

[lFATHOMl]

Mine are doing this as well. Just some zoas while others are fine. I thought it was my pmhipods eating them at night but they have only been eating the decaying ones. i think it might be my led's being too bright in this case. Good luck to you guys

 

[Scribe]

My SG was right on, according to the calibration fluid I got. I've dipped a bunch of my zoas in Lugols, as well as some chalices which were receding. Seems like the zoas are still doing the same thing....not rotting, melting, etc, just not opening a lot either. I'm starting to wonder if my LEDs are too bright for some of them as well.

 

[Mikefromaz]

I am using oolite sand amost as fine as flour. When the tank is disturbed the sand fliats around for a bit. Iam wondering if my one zoo coliny "ate" some suspendwd sand and became permanently irritated?

 

[DESNJ]

Quick "Me Too" post. I'm new to reefkeeping, have a 6-month old tank with some corals and, 2 ocellatus and a PJ cardinalfish. No detectable ammonia, nitrate or nitrite, pH 8.2, SG 1.025, Ca, Mg and alkalinity all OK last time I checked. Xenia is growing like a weed, paly is growing like a weed, GSP is beginning to take over the whole bottom of the tank, torch coral and some ricordeas are looking good. Watermelon zoa looked good at first and has got progressively worse. . I did find and got rid of a nudibranch and eggs, tried freshwater dips, then what looks like zoa pox set in. Did Furan 2 (1 packet/2 cups tank water x 30 min, then fresh saltwater wash) for 3 days running. No good, zoas still melting. 2 or 3 polyps out of ~50 still open and I'm thinking of fragging those off and relocating them. All in all, very frustrating. Any thoughts from anyone more experienced, greatly appreciated.

 

[Mark9]

I am far from being zoa experienced, but mine have been doing way better.
i have a clam, which was causing my ca/kh to vary, quite a bit.
So I added a dosing system, which keeps the kh to be pretty much stable at 8.4.
Had an accident where I messed up my ca dosing (accidentally did not put an 'end' time on one of my doses) which caused ca to spike to over 600.
it's coming down, but still higher than my target of 420.
The ca spike did not seem to affect any corals or fish.
In short, i'm not sure what has caused them to perk up, the steady kh or the high ca.

 

[Mark9]

Figured i'd give an update.
Basically, don't really have a zoa issue anymore, pretty much all are healthy.
Moved alot of corals around to try and find what works.
For my tank, with the 6 T5's, zoa's seem to do best mid tank.
Moved every zoa I have to mid tank level.
One colony that was on top still has a few unhappy polyps due to some algae on the stalk, not sure why the yellow tang isn't cleaning it as he does everything else.
Also, some of the zoas were bothered by the mushrooms.
Once they were separated, zoas way happier.
So take it fwiw, just my results.