Zoa eradication

[Wilsoni]

So I began eradicating my overwhelming population of Fire & Ice Zoas with Aiptasia-X last night and now I'm feeling somewhat guilty. They're literally growing too fast to control and beginning to approach or smother the bases of my SPS.

I've attempted to cut them below the base and pull up the mat but some always burst leaving their orange pigment in the water column.

Has anybody else controlled their Zoa population by using this method? If so, did you feel bad afterwards?

 

[ermartin]

I felt guilty when it crashed my tank from all the toxic crap the released when they died in my tank

 

[30reef]

I have not, I'm trying to let mine grow out and haven't had an issue yet, if possible you could take out the rock and break it off! Other then that no clue...
-RJ

 

[Wilsoni]

I felt guilty when it crashed my tank from all the toxic crap the released when they died in my tank

I started slow by doing 5 polyps last night. Wouldn't bursting them release the same toxins?

 

[30reef]

Yea it could your always taking the risk... Sadly that's the bad thing about Zoas there very pretty but a pain in the but at the same time:mad:

 

[Wilsoni]

I have not, I'm trying to let mine grow out and haven't had an issue yet, if possible you could take out the rock and break it off! Other then that no clue...
-RJ

Attempting to chisel out the sections where they're located will be almost impossible with all of the encrusted bases of my acros

 

[dakoop]

sounds like a problem i need

 

[cloak]

I've used tweezers to remove hundreds of zoanthids from my rocks one time. Some of them came off with ease , but a lot of them turned to mush in the process. Anyways, I never had any problems with toxins or anything like that and this was a mixed reef. (sps, LPS, softies) I don't think I was running any carbon at the time, but a water change was performed when I was done.

 

[Wilsoni]

Palytoxin makes me never want to mess with any Zoanthid or Palys ever again

 

[Wilsoni]

I've used tweezers to remove hundreds of zoanthids from my rocks one time. Some of them came off with ease , but a lot of them turned to mush in the process. Anyways, I never had any problems with toxins or anything like that and this was a mixed reef. (sps, LPS, softies) I don't think I was running any carbon at the time, but a water change was performed when I was done.

Did any of them burst during this process?

 

[Wilsoni]

sounds like a problem i need

You're welcome to an 80+ polyp colony if you want to come snag them

 

[dakoop]

Utah is a bit fa r but I'm sure someone local would love to. Only ones I can grow are the brown ones

 

[Reefrookie220]

Maaaaaan, sell some frags. Intentionally killing aquacultured corals is kinda counter-productive.

Not raging or flaming, but why not cut massive frags and sell them cheap cheap just to get them gone.

 

[Wilsoni]

They're growing down within a ridge in my rock which makes them difficult to reach. I would like to remove them without disrupting my tank as much as possible. In this case they're growing on my base rock and working within the tank in a tight space isn't as easy as it would seem.

Trust me, I would love to sell as many as I can and like I stated, it's hard for me to intentionally kill them. I'm just looking at it as being a fairly inexpensive Zoanthid that's tanking over my tank and I would rather not lose acros due to their uncontrollable growth.

 

[cloak]

Did any of them burst during this process?

Yeah, they would burst, turn to mush and sometimes just completely fall apart. It wasn't pretty, but none of the other inhabitants seem to mind. I had an outbreak of Zoa Pox and I panicked. Removing the rocks and dipping them in Furan was out of the question so I just ripped them out.

 

[Lowstorm]

Get a bunch of glue and glue a layer of rock rubble over them. If any pop up on the rubble you should be able to pop them off and sell them as frags. And for giving you the wonderful idea, you can send me the first frags lol

 

[AllSignsPointToFish]

If you want to eradicate them, just put them in my tank! I seem to be very efficient at making them disappear! :/

LOL

 

[mikeandkerry]

If you want to eradicate them, just put them in my tank! I seem to be very efficient at making them disappear! :/

LOL

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