Random, Large-scale Zoa Polyp Death

Bunnee911 · Dec 23, 2016

Sorry I wasn't clearer about the Chemiclean. I tried several things to halt my losses. After dips and such, it was just a last ditch effort. So far, /knock wood, everything is doing well again.

TheEngineer · Dec 23, 2016

Tori said:
So just the carbon seems to have helped?

Seemingly but with only one data point, I can't really make that claim

TheEngineer · Jan 14, 2017

Circling back around on this. Everything seems to be recovering although my gold mauls retracted the other day and are starting to whither. I pulled the frag and did a dip in revive and something really surprising happened.... I started a new thread to discuss it.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/new-weapon-in-my-arsenal.283552/

TheEngineer · Jan 30, 2017

The die-off is starting up again...

Tori · Jan 31, 2017

Bummer. Anything changed? Did you change out the carbon again?

TheEngineer · Jan 31, 2017

Tori said:
Bummer. Anything changed? Did you change out the carbon again?

Nothing changed to cause this that I'm aware of. I put a carbon reactor online Friday.

Madelion33 · Jan 31, 2017

TheEngineer said:
Part of the reason I don't suspect these to be aiptasia is their size, primarily. They stay relatively small, what you see there are full grown. Some of them get substantially larger at night, but I suspect those are something different. I have "real" aiptasia elsewhere in the tank that get mowed down by my berghias every now and then. The berghias are another reason I suspect they are not aiptasia. The berghias ignore them.

So berghia only eat aiptasia not majano that you have pictured there. I'm only so far into the thread and someone else may have already answered this but small or not they pack a punch worthy of curling up any surrounding 'threat'.

TheEngineer · Jan 31, 2017

Madelion33 said:
So berghia only eat aiptasia not majano that you have pictured there. I'm only so far into the thread and someone else may have already answered this but small or not they pack a punch worthy of curling up any surrounding 'threat'.

Yes, they only eat aiptasia. The pests I have are not aiptasia. They are not majano either. Majano have rounded ends.

Madelion33 · Jan 31, 2017

TheEngineer said:
Yes, they only eat aiptasia. The pests I have are not aiptasia. They are not majano either. Majano have rounded ends.

I honestly mistook one of the intial pictures. I did a little poking around and came up with "Anthopleura pallida"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3800810/#!po=21.4912

Madelion33 · Jan 31, 2017

Madelion33 said:
I honestly mistook one of the intial pictures. I did a little poking around and came up with "Anthopleura pallida"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3800810/#!po=21.4912

Churning up nothing on infestations or eradication though.. [emoji30]

TheEngineer · Jan 31, 2017

How interesting! That's the closest thing I've seen to what I have. The description states they have 24 tentacles though... these appear to have 14-16.

TheEngineer · Jan 31, 2017

Certainly the closest thing to an ID I've seen. Really exciting!

Madelion33 · Jan 31, 2017

TheEngineer said:
Certainly the closest thing to an ID I've seen. Really exciting!

Stoked we landed somewhere close! I'll give it another stab later tonight. [emoji4]

Madelion33 · Feb 1, 2017

TheEngineer said:
We are getting a little off topic on the aiptasia, but here's a few videos we've talked about in the past...

This last one shows Berghias ignoring them. Hence my thought they are not aiptasia. They grapple a bit, but it ignores it.

So I've watched these clips a couple times and based on the way the neck tappers in I'm not so sure. Bunodeopsis antilliensis looks promising IF I can find any varieties with striped tentacles. The description fit the build though.

https://www.researchgate.net/public..._Cnidaria_Actiniaria_of_the_Mexican_Caribbean

TheEngineer · Feb 1, 2017

Even closer!

TheEngineer · Feb 1, 2017

I emailed the corresponding author of the first article you posted. Let's hope he emails back!

TheEngineer · Feb 1, 2017

I should also add, most of my Darth Maul colony is dead in the latest episode of this. And a colony in the back corner of the tank, nowhere near this one, is also doing the same thing....