Zoa eating copepods

650-IS350 · Jan 28, 2015

kalk paste?

reynaldoramon · Jan 28, 2015

bmoore92 said:
Look up digitate hydroids. Sounds like your "inch worms." They pack a sting and could be what's irritating your zoas. Sadly I had them survive on frags after 2 separate dips and have yet to find a way to get rid of them

Hmm kind of looks like them. What I have are definitely segmented and grey in color. They look smooth though. Look like a strand of algae, that is, until you see it do something purposeful. Though they were in vicinity of the zoas, none were on them. The alleged ampipods were definitely all over the zoas. Not sure it's digitate Hydroids yet. Need to investigate more. Definitely top suspect.

duke4130 · Jan 28, 2015

I had the same problem with pods.... They took out my colony of stratospheres and my hallucinations... I guess they had expensive taste... From there they moved to one of my chalices. I walked out one night and shined the light on the tank and the were all over the chalice... I went out and picked up a 6 line wrasse and fixed the problem immediately. I know people don't like to get 6 lines for their temper but in this situation you really need one. It I one of the only types of wrasses that actually go into small crevices of the rock structure that can hunt these things...

reynaldoramon · Jan 28, 2015

I just want to thank every one for their input. Initially I would post on RC via tapatalk. Those sat with no response. Within the past month I've discovered this forum via tapatalk. Always a quick response. Always informative. Thank you all.

reynaldoramon · Jan 28, 2015

Yeah LFS always has them, but been trying not to because of their temper reputation. Would rather get a yellow/canary wrasse. Another LFS has one, but for $40. A bit over price I think. Can be had for half the price online (of course not counting shipping). Can some confirm that the yellows are as effective as the 6 line?

650-IS350 · Jan 28, 2015

Yellows were my work horses. I always employed those fish in my tanks as my guard dogs for my Z's and P's when I used to collect them a lot. They would inspect newly introduced frags / colonies, even as I was adding them in while still in my hand. They spend all day searching through the rocks and corals for yummy food.

reynaldoramon · Jan 28, 2015

650-IS350 said:
Yellows were my work horses. I always employed those fish in my tanks as my guard dogs for my Z's and P's when I used to collect them a lot. They would inspect newly introduced frags / colonies, even as I was adding them in while still in my hand. They spend all day searching through the rocks and corals for yummy food.

Yeah I'm sure I'm going to get the Yellow. Just need to find one. Find them online for good prices but one LFS wants $40. Hoping for a slightly lower price.

LILBUDDHA · Jan 28, 2015

duke4130 said:
I had the same problem with pods.... They took out my colony of stratospheres and my hallucinations... I guess they had expensive taste... From there they moved to one of my chalices. I walked out one night and shined the light on the tank and the were all over the chalice... I went out and picked up a 6 line wrasse and fixed the problem immediately. I know people don't like to get 6 lines for their temper but in this situation you really need one. It I one of the only types of wrasses that actually go into small crevices of the rock structure that can hunt these things...

Ouch . When I posted or talked to my buddies about this same situation they told me I was bonkers . I noticed this happened more with the zoas than paly's though . My clementines, punk rockers , yellow jackets and maybe scarface . Putting them on a frag rack did no good . I would look at night and the lil bugger's would find the racks with the zoa's . I don't recommend it, but since I had no shrimp or crabs I dosed interceptor to cull the population . I did eventually use a sixline wrasse later as a natural means to assist . So as a result I always kept,HP, dip , interceptor ,furan 2 and chemiclean to address any issues with z's n p's .

650-IS350 · Jan 28, 2015

I've gone that route before, had so much large ampipods that were taking out colonies it had to use interceptor on a 100 gal tank. The wrasses took care of anything else that survived after that.

reynaldoramon · Jan 29, 2015

650-IS350 said:
Yellows were my work horses. I always employed those fish in my tanks as my guard dogs for my Z's and P's when I used to collect them a lot. They would inspect newly introduced frags / colonies, even as I was adding them in while still in my hand. They spend all day searching through the rocks and corals for yummy food.

Will the Yellows eat the worms too?

650-IS350 · Jan 29, 2015

Per DiversDen
overview
The Yellow Wrasse is also referred to as the Golden Rainbowfish, Golden Wrasse, Yellow Coris, or Canary Wrasse. It is golden-yellow with a black eyespot on the dorsal fin. A 50 gallon or larger aquarium with a sealed lid, a 2-3 inch sandy bottom to hide under when frightened, and other peaceful Wrasses, including its own species, provides a good environment. It will eat fireworms and pyramidellid snails, protecting corals and clams. In addition, it may eat feather dusters, wild shrimp, tubeworms, and flatworms. It may also eat parasites off of tank mates.
The Yellow Wrasse diet should include vitamin enriched frozen mysis shrimp, vitamin enriched frozen brine shrimp, and other meaty foods along with a high quality marine flake and marine pellet food.

It didn't pick on my feather dusters when I had FDs. It was more other fish bothering the FDs to death.

reynaldoramon · Jan 29, 2015

So an update. Tonight i got the polyps affected, candy apple and long haired green eyed zoas, off the rock and put them all on frag plugs. I put them away from rock with the pests. before I did that I actually did HP dip in half the rock (it's all that would fit). It's pretty big. I should receive my small magnetic frag rack tomorrow or Saturday. I just need to get something to munch on the pests. Hoping to pick up a Yellow some time this weekend. One of the polyps is a quater size of its original size. Hoping this is the 1st step to saving it. Weird thing is that this month a lone, they've really started to multiply. 4 new polyps this month. ..and it's the 1st time they've ever multiplied since I got them in November.