zoas not opening, should i dip?

[sabazerehi]

i've got a few zoa frags that i got recently and the range from a few weeks old to a few days. none of them seem to opening up very well and everything tests at zero and my ph is right and my salinity, i have a friend that bought the same frags at the same time and his seem to be doing much better. one frag has some brown jelly on it so i'm planning a freshwater dip for it. should i just dip all the frags? also should i try that vitamin c technique? and if so how much would i need to add for a 30g tank? and do i even add it directly to the tank? any help and any suggestion will be greatly appreciated!

 

[killingseed]

picture would be helpful. what kind of lights and flow?

 

[sabazerehi]

i'll try to get pics but there really isn't much to show since they're not opening and i haven't seen anything on them that could be harming them, i have 1 65w and 1 65w actinic, totalling 130w, power compacts, and i have two power jets in there and i just ordered a hydor koralia 1 to add as well, i set the power jets to be hitting all the corals pretty well but not too strong.

 

[killingseed]

any detail on friend setup?

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11664979#post11664979 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by killingseed
picture would be helpful. what kind of lights and flow?

I agree but lean more towards alot of flow. I've got zoas at all levels in my tank but my flow rate is about 40 times the tank volume per hour

 

[sabazerehi]

ok i'll try more flow, my friend has a 24g aquapod with a total of 65w pc's

 

[Indermark]

okay this just happened to me with some of my prized blue zoas. I started with 2 polyps and then it spread into 24 polyps in 3 months. Once the growth slowed down I was a bit concerned but kept watching them. Then one by one they started to close up and not open for nothing. I dip them in lugols or Seachem reef dip every day and then they start to come back looking better. I let it go a little too far this time because of work and school so it took a little more time. for them to recover. This happened to me before and did the same thing and it worked, its not as harsh as a FW dip which has only led me towards a road of death and dispar. This is an assumption but I think that its some type of bacteria or something else that irrates the zoanthids and by dipping them in the lugols or Seachem reef dip will help clean them. This is just a guess.

 

[Aquarist007]

what's your tank's parameters

 

[sabazerehi]

everythings at zero and ph is at 8.2 and i'm going to test my calcium tested and post that soon. i'll look into that seachem reef dip or lugols, thanks

 

[Pufferpunk]

Read the Treating With Vitamin C thread.