I ordered a zoanthid coral online and this guy is in the bag with the coral. The coral looks very angry and unhappy and I think there might be eggs as well. My fear is a zoanthid spider. If it is, how can I treat my coral?
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kchristensen8064
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Sure looks like a zoanthid spider. I don't have any experience with them, but I would imagine a good strong dip should take care of it.
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those things can be gnarly from what I've read. If you can maybe isolate the coral in a separate tank for a week and see what happens. If those eggs hatch in your tank they go around laying eggs inside zoa and killing them
El_Guapo13
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Where did you order the coral from?
Also, my Godzilla that is ugly!!
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Alan_J_MN
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I would be contacting them and asking for a full refund.
I bought a bunch of corals from them about 5 weeks ago. Yesterday I found and killed an Aiptasia on one of the plugs.
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I would not put it in my tank.
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It looks like the zoanthid is covered in eggs too. I don't think I even want to try and battle such an aggressive pest.
The reason being I am still very new to the hobby and I got the zoas since they were one of the easier corals to learn with, but I will fully admit dealing with a spider like this is well out of my league. If it was just a matter of dipping it and QT, I could manage but I'm not prepared to battle for months against a pest that in the end might hurt my DT.
The reason being I am still very new to the hobby and I got the zoas since they were one of the easier corals to learn with, but I will fully admit dealing with a spider like this is well out of my league. If it was just a matter of dipping it and QT, I could manage but I'm not prepared to battle for months against a pest that in the end might hurt my DT.
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Update: I got a hold of AquaSD and they are going to replace the Zoa for me and apologized for my hitchhiker. As for looking around the forum and what not, I'm going to try to do my best to QT and observe. I don't know if I will be successful, but I will use it as a learning experience.
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just wow,i've seen em,never that large ,wow!! glad you caught,happy reefing
