Treating zoa pox

ahiggins · Mar 19, 2017

hey all.
Late last night I found quite a few frags with zoa pox. After thinking how much money I'm going to lose and wondering if it's even worth it, I decided to treat them today.

Treatment: 1 packet of furan2 to each cup of new saltwater (10 cups total). Treatment heated to 84 degrees.

The unaffected ones will still get dipped but go into the same tank. Affected ones will go into another, more established tank for better healing.

I will take all frags out and scrape off the pox, had luck that way before. Then they'll go into the dip and be rinsed with tank water.

I will update after treatment.

Desmond · Mar 19, 2017

Good luck

Macdaddynick1 · Mar 19, 2017

Zoa pox isn't that bad if you dip them in Furan 2 with a power head running in the container, and make sure to take off the pox but, you should look for the causes because there's something wrong with your tank that's stressing zoas out. I think the temperature swings caused it in my case. Whenever, I would change the water and it was not heated properly I would see zoa pox.

ahiggins · Mar 19, 2017

I'm almost 100% sure it was the high nitrates. Happened before but twice is a pattern.
It's just labor intensive and annoying

ahiggins · Mar 19, 2017

Update: mostly good ones back in the frag tank, the bad ones are in the nem tank
All in all, not as many bad ones as I thought. So there's a positive

Emmagmrtz · Mar 19, 2017

Just had it like a week ago. Dipped it in iodine and peroxide and popped the zit looking dot with tweezers and then freshwater dip and they all came back

ahiggins · Mar 19, 2017

Never heard of using peroxide before. I beat it once about 6 months ago. I'm almost 100% certain it was due to parameters. Nothing new for quite a while.

Emmagmrtz · Mar 19, 2017

I never did also but read on here that this guy friend does it all the time and it also worked for him. And since I already had Rasta I risked it. So I did it. And it discolor the head a bit and snapped back in a week

ahiggins · Mar 19, 2017

I've used peroxide for algae before so I know what you mean lol it changed the colors of my zippers once.

saltyfilmfolks · Mar 19, 2017

ahiggins said:
I'm almost 100% sure it was the high nitrates.

I dont think it is. There's a lot of nonsense on the pox out ther. I cant fins my good article.

saltyfilmfolks · Mar 19, 2017

http://zoaid.org/zoapox-zoa-pox-the-search-for-the-cause-and-cure/

ahiggins · Mar 19, 2017

saltyfilmfolks said:
http://zoaid.org/zoapox-zoa-pox-the-search-for-the-cause-and-cure/

While all of that is intriguing, and we all thirst for knowledge here, there is still no provable cause. The tank has been perfect for weeks. It hasn't been in the tank long because there were very few "pox" there. Each of the affected colonies only have a few. There's multiple lps/softies on top of the majority of zoas/palythoas, there's no bleaching or changes of any others. I also skim very dry. The only "out of whack" thing has been an increased level of nitrates ~20.
The only change was 2 days ago when I started nopox.
For all I know, maybe the kitties took a swim while I was at work lol

saltyfilmfolks · Mar 19, 2017

ahiggins said:
there is still no provable cause.

I cant find the right articles. SOMEBODY has looked at this under a microscope.

ahiggins said:
The only change was 2 days ago when I started nopox.

Is that when it started?

ahiggins said:
level of nitrates ~20.

Pffft... 20? Amature

ahiggins · Mar 19, 2017

lol amateur hahah
I noticed last night after 2 days of some being closed. It's definitely a new development.
Find that article dude! I neeeeeeeed it! Lol

saltyfilmfolks · Mar 19, 2017

ahiggins said:
Find that article dude! I neeeeeeeed it! Lol

Its gonna cost ya.

saltyfilmfolks · Mar 19, 2017

The article I had read, I'm pretty sure had stated it was a fungus, and that's what I logged in my brain.. I was hoping to verify, but... It does seem its a fungus.
That's why furan 2 seems to be the choice treatment, Id assume fluconazole would work too. Also Iodine dips, but its not as effective, it "washes" it as opposed to eradicating it I believe. Coral RX revive etc do the same. But it each of those it would stay in the system.

Its possible its a flare up from the bloom, as bacteria can be food, or they both(bac/fungus) feed on the same thing.

ahiggins · Mar 20, 2017

saltyfilmfolks said:
The article I had read, I'm pretty sure had stated it was a fungus, and that's what I logged in my brain.. I was hoping to verify, but... It does seem its a fungus.
That's why furan 2 seems to be the choice treatment, Id assume fluconazole would work too. Also Iodine dips, but its not as effective, it "washes" it as opposed to eradicating it I believe. Coral RX revive etc do the same. But it each of those it would stay in the system.

Its possible its a flare up from the bloom, as bacteria can be food, or they both(bac/fungus) feed on the same thing.

It would make more sense if it was a bacteria, flare up with the rest of them. It may have been kept in check. That may be why furan2 works so well, it is an antibacterial dip.
But then again if it was a fungus it could lie dormant for a time until conditions were favorable.
One dip has worked for me in the past, if it comes back I may try a different dip.