Zoa colony in shambles

Jwolfe1972 · Mar 23, 2020

I have lost a good portion of this zoa colony. There was a large white sponge growing in the damage part of colony. I removed in a light bath of iodine treatment water. ( coral dip) Shortly after putting colony back in tank the part where the sponge was originally , the colony would not open and started to die off rapidly. It’s been a week and I would say I lost a third of colony already. I was thinking maybe it’s Zoa pox. I need help in diagnosing. Also alternative treatments to furan 2 since I cannot get any before April 21st on amazon Prime because of this corona virus. Any help with this issue would be awesome....

ClowinRound · Mar 23, 2020

I would dip in a peroxide/tank water solution. Lightly brush the affected area then return to tank.

NanoDJS · Mar 23, 2020

Thats a wild colony right , they always seem to hate being disturbed

Copingwithpods · Mar 23, 2020

Don't know if this is possibly related but a few weeks ago I had a sponge growing under a toxic pie chalice that at first didn't seam to be doing anything but as the days went by the chalice noticeably declined in health. I remove the chalice, scraped the sponge off, did a h2o2 and an iodine dip and placed the chalice back. Although the sponge is gone the poor thing is still on the decline and it doesn't look like it's going to make it. To it seamed as though the toxins in the sponge poisoned the coral to the point where it could not recover. All other chalices in my tank are doing great.

Jvalle · Mar 23, 2020

Jwolfe1972 said:
I have lost a good portion of this zoa colony. There was a large white sponge growing in the damage part of colony. I removed in a light bath of iodine treatment water. ( coral dip) Shortly after putting colony back in tank the part where the sponge was originally , the colony would not open and started to die off rapidly. It’s been a week and I would say I lost a third of colony already. I was thinking maybe it’s Zoa pox. I need help in diagnosing. Also alternative treatments to furan 2 since I cannot get any before April 21st on amazon Prime because of this corona virus. Any help with this issue would be awesome....

Hi yes it’s zoa pox. I had it happen to some large colonies I have and dipped them and they eventually recovered. Look at them now they should regrow. Thx

Jvalle · Mar 23, 2020

Jvalle said:
Hi yes it’s zoa pox. I had it happen to some large colonies I have and dipped them and they eventually recovered. Look at them now they should regrow. Thx

Jwolfe1972 · Mar 24, 2020

Nice colonies. I ordered furan 2 off of eBay today but want arrive till Friday. I deeper them earlier today in a coral dip solution. Hopefully they will hang in for a bit longer. I had read where someone had used cephalexin and had better success than with furan 2. Does anyone else have any suggestions that I could try while waiting on furan 2 to arrive. I have all kinds of fish medications but no furan 2 or cephalexin.

Jwolfe1972 · Mar 24, 2020

Copingwithpods said:
Don't know if this is possibly related but a few weeks ago I had a sponge growing under a toxic pie chalice that at first didn't seam to be doing anything but as the days went by the chalice noticeably declined in health. I remove the chalice, scraped the sponge off, did a h2o2 and an iodine dip and placed the chalice back. Although the sponge is gone the poor thing is still on the decline and it doesn't look like it's going to make it. To it seamed as though the toxins in the sponge poisoned the coral to the point where it could not recover. All other chalices in my tank are doing great.

I hope it pulls through and yes seems odd the way they took a turn for the worse after removing the sponge.