Will dying/melting zoas nuke my tank?

[hawk82]

My zoas have not been doing good at all. Closed up for the past 2 weeks, so I kinda knew they were on the way out. This morning the rock that they were on is completely bare. I guess they all melted away last night, I see no trace of them in the tank. Will this hurt anything? Ive heard about zoa being toxic, what about putting my hand in the tank? Ive got some finger leather corals, and gsp they are all doing fine. Fish seem ok. Should I do a water change?

 

[virtual reality]

I would do a water change, and add carbon.

 

[hawk82]

Will do. Thanks.

 

[BlennyTime]

Yep, water change and carbon

 

[vanpire]

I have had colonies melted in my tank and nothing bad happened (other than loosing the zoas).

 

[Beefyreefy]

It’s fine. It happens. I have had zoas and palys die off from being cut off from light from large fast growing montipora and it hasn’t ever made an issue. If the zoas had released palytoxin into the tank the whole thing would be nuked all ready.

 

[Uncle99]

Melt to nutrients, some processed by the skimmer, some by our bacterial friends.
No problems.

 

[hawk82]

Cool, thanks for the replys. I didnt want to poison my fish lol. I just dont understand why I cant keep zoas, gsp and leathers do fine.