Zoa help needed

[Sphinxj13]

From the pic they look unhappy. How long have you had them in your tank? I agree with above statements, water is to clean. Try feeding the tank more, our zoas love reef nutrition oyster feast and reef roids. I carbon dose with pellets as well since I like to feed heavy. They could be over saturated with light so moving to an area with less light and medium flow might help too. Leave the coral be for a few days without intervention once moved so it can have time to acclimate.

I just ordered some reef roids and having been really over feeding the tank lately to see if that helps. They have probably been in the tank about year and half and were good for few months then started shrinking up and hiding

 

[GoVols]

Welp,
To me:
It could be lighting but the water is to clean and maybe to low in phos and nitrates.

I dose "Reef Energy" almost every day the keep organics up within the water column.

 

[Sphinxj13]

Sounds like I should get rid of the pellets...i don't wanna hurt all the SPS and LPS corals that I have

 

[Sphinxj13]

Thank you for all the advice! I will definitely test some things out and begin dosing food

 

[GoVols]

Thank you for all the advice! I will definitely test some things out and begin dosing food

Good call.
Testing is always to key to locking things in and holding them.

 

[EZreefin]

If you are overly concerned just take out half the pellets for now so its still working but not in "overdrive" you don't want to shock the system and pour in FOOD to get things up neither..you could possibly have a spike in your tanks parameters. Which is not good in a reef tank. Do little corrections at a time.

 

[Travis Stewart]

Looks like an alk or salinty swing to me

 

[DSC reef]

Agreed. I would not remove the pellets all together. Once dialed in and everything's stable they work quite well. I've been running them for years. To much change to quickly is what might be going on here.

 

[EZreefin]

You said everything else is fine though right? Do you have other zoas? Have you also looked for zoa pox? ..white spots on em. .

 

[Sphinxj13]

You said everything else is fine though right? Do you have other zoas? Have you also looked for zoa pox? ..white spots on em. .

Yea everything else seems to be fine and growing...only thing I could say is that the green slimer isn't out but it is still growing and no other Zoas yet bc these have been like this for so long I've held off on more

 

[Sphinxj13]

I don't see any spots or anything on the Zoas either

 

[EZreefin]

Do you have a red light? At night look when lights are out .look for bristle worms..I found out one time I had more bristle worms then i thought...any how reason I'm brining this up is I found them moving inbetween the zoas i had. Another thing i noticed was there barbs,.looking like fiberglass were sticking in the zoas sides.( checked with white led during day time) Irritating them. Making them stay closed. Went bristle worm hunting for a couple of weeks and waited..they opened up after a week .

 

[Sphinxj13]

Do you have a red light? At night look when lights are out .look for bristle worms..I found out one time I had more bristle worms then i thought...any how reason I'm brining this up is I found them moving inbetween the zoas i had. Another thing i noticed was there barbs,.looking like fiberglass were sticking in the zoas sides.( checked with white led during day time) Irritating them. Making them stay closed. Went bristle worm hunting for a couple of weeks and waited..they opened up after a week .

Yes I have a red light and I'll check and see. I've never seen one in my tank but definitely doesn't mean they are not there!

 

[EZreefin]

They are sneeky!! At night Drop a pellet or two next to the zoas. Wait about 10 min. They will smell it and come out for em if they are there. One might be in the rock they are on.

 

[Sphinxj13]

No sign didn't see any at the moment but I will keep checking! And I dipped the whole rock the Zoas are on today and nothing came off or out of it

 

[Sphinxj13]

This thing is huge! Probably like 6 in long!

 

[EZreefin]

Lol glad you got em! Did he come out by the zoas?

 

[EZreefin]

Is that a bristle worm? Hard to tell by pic. I see a worm but hard to make out.

 

[Sphinxj13]

Lol glad you got em! Did he come out by the zoas?

He was near the Zoas kinda more towards the bottom though wrapped around another coral but I didn't get the whole thing, it broke! Pretty sure it's a bristleworm

 

[Sphinxj13]

Here's a better picture as I watched it have a heart attack in tap water!