Need an ID

[Zeddy]

Could this be eating my zoa's?

 

[ying yang]

Picture not loaded just fyi

 

[Zeddy]

Sorry. Will try again! Having some problems uploading.

 

[ying yang]

I've been taking a screenshot of tje picture then sharing the screenshot, this works for me.
Some on this site having troubles posting pictures and videos this last week or so but admin are aware and looking into it last thread I read about it on r2r

 

[Zeddy]

Thanks. I'll try that!

 

[bradleym]

Looks like a stomatella, a good and safe hitchhiker.

 

[BanjoBandito]

You got any crabs?????

 

[bnord]

would be happy you have that one...

 

[Zeddy]

No crabs. 2 small clowns. 1 peppermint shrimp. 3 Nassarius snails and a couple of trocus snails. The zoa polyps seem to be disappearing is size overnight. Clowns don't go anywhere near them?

 

[ying yang]

Yeah first image looks like a stomatella snail which is good guy and wouldn't be eating your zoas.
If your zoas are new in tank they could just be adjusting and take few days to a week to settle in.
But if polyps start losing their skirts or full polyps then could have a pest like zoa eating nudis or zoa eating spiders or something else,some even stated seeing ampripods eating their zoas but then other side of argument is people saying ampripods will only eat a already dying zoa so.....

From your livestock list.i only seen people say peppermint shrimps sometimes eat some corals and peppermint shrimp often most active at night so maybe watch the zoas after lights out and see if see anything .

Other than that it's check your parameters and light and flow affect corals also,to much flow and they struggle to open and to little they can't respite or catch food properley and ovbiously to much light and they retract and close up and to little they try their best to reach for the light bit dont get enough of their energy from their zooanthelie algae that's inside them.
Did you happen to dip the corals before you introduced them into the tank and if so what dip and did you see anything drop off the coral when you swished the coral around in the coral dip ? As often the dips don't kill some pests but just aggregate them enough to loosen their grip so end up in the dip water.

Btw I'm no coral expert,just came in thread to say about loading screenshot lol but while I'm here just mention what I've picked up so far whilst in hobby.

Good luck and hopefully your zoas just acclimatising and will perk up shortly

 

[Zeddy]

Yeah first image looks like a stomatella snail which is good guy and wouldn't be eating your zoas.
If your zoas are new in tank they could just be adjusting and take few days to a week to settle in.
But if polyps start losing their skirts or full polyps then could have a pest like zoa eating nudis or zoa eating spiders or something else,some even stated seeing ampripods eating their zoas but then other side of argument is people saying ampripods will only eat a already dying zoa so.....

From your livestock list.i only seen people say peppermint shrimps sometimes eat some corals and peppermint shrimp often most active at night so maybe watch the zoas after lights out and see if see anything .

Other than that it's check your parameters and light and flow affect corals also,to much flow and they struggle to open and to little they can't respite or catch food properley and ovbiously to much light and they retract and close up and to little they try their best to reach for the light bit dont get enough of their energy from their zooanthelie algae that's inside them.
Did you happen to dip the corals before you introduced them into the tank and if so what dip and did you see anything drop off the coral when you swished the coral around in the coral dip ? As often the dips don't kill some pests but just aggregate them enough to loosen their grip so end up in the dip water.

Btw I'm no coral expert,just came in thread to say about loading screenshot lol but while I'm here just mention what I've picked up so far whilst in hobby.

Good luck and hopefully your zoas just acclimatising and will perk up shortly

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Unfortunately these 2 Coral's weren't dipped (learnt to dip all new ones since) . I e had them for around 3 months. I'll keep an eye on them, ironically this has started to happen after the peppershrimp was added to eat the aptasia I found on one! I'm new to this so learning all the time and appreciate all the advice.

 

[ying yang]

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Unfortunately these 2 Coral's weren't dipped (learnt to dip all new ones since) . I e had them for around 3 months. I'll keep an eye on them, ironically this has started to happen after the peppershrimp was added to eat the aptasia I found on one! I'm new to this so learning all the time and appreciate all the advice.

Well would definitely be watching that peppermint shrimp after lights out and throught the day ,whenever it's active as if zoas was OK and now problem with zoas since added shrimp then he could be the culprit but at same time could be a coincidence but close eye on shrimp needed now I would guess.

And hope these storms not disrupting you to much .here it's just few trees down and windy and lots rain but in Yorkshire where originally from its floods everywhere I see on the news pffft

 

[Isaac_Tang]

Definitely for aiptasia I have an aiptasia eating filefish for 3 months and he hasn’t nipped any corals as some folks advised but I talked to my LFS and they told me if he does go after the Zoas I could return him since he has some display tanks with some aiptasia. I also have a copper band too for the aiptasia and they seem to keep my aiptasia at by, I don’t expect to be 100% aiptasia free since my corals aren’t being bothered by them but if you don’t feel comfortable with any fish to put in the tank another route would be the nudibranch there tiny so you won’t see them often but they definitely do their job, slowly I might add but they get to it lol