Zoa help

Camilo castillo · Apr 3, 2019

So I have this magician zoa and and now has a baby. It had been opening beautifully and all of the sudden for four days it’s been like this on the pic. I have no idea why. It had been fine for a month at least and it been sprung the baby, as you can see the other next to it are doing just fine. Parameters are good. Ph:8.14, alk: 8.1 , nitrite 0 nitrate 0 ammonia 0. I have a mix reef tank 66 sca aquarium with refugium. Any help would be great it’s a very nice zoa and it bites it’s doing this now after it had been excellent, any ideas?

MrObscura · Apr 3, 2019

I'm not saying it's the reason but no3 above 0 wouldn't hurt.

Zoas can be weird though. You can have a bunch thriving and one type will decide to just close up one day never to open again. In general
if the rest of your tank is happy and an issue is isolated to a single coral its likely that coral and not your tank.

But again detectable no3 wouldn't hurt and only benefit the whole tank.

Camilo castillo · Apr 3, 2019

Whats safest way to bring it up. I am seeing little bubble algae prob like 10 bubbles so far n don’t want to create more. Ian going to manually scrape the off as I syphone the water out Incase I burst them. Will increasing the no3 cause me more issues in that aspect ?

MrObscura · Apr 3, 2019

Fortunately I've never had a bubble algea issue, but I believe it needs to be introduced into the tank from an external source.

I've had a little come in on frags but after removing it have never seen anymore. So if you font have much of it and can remove it then you should be good.

As for safely raising no3, you could just feed a little more or back off on export depending on what you're using besides the fuge.

Camilo castillo · Apr 3, 2019

MrObscura said:
Fortunately I've never had a bubble algea issue, but I believe it needs to be introduced into the tank from an external source.

I've had a little come in on frags but after removing it have never seen anymore. So if you font have much of it and can remove it then you should be good.

As for safely raising no3, you could just feed a little more or back off on export depending on what you're using besides the fuge.

Yeah I did see the bubble on two frags and i thought I had quarantine them long enough. I thought I had pulled them off and had none burst on the rocks, but I have taken maybe 5 bubbles off before , now after 3 or 4 months I see few more. Iam glad it don’t seem like much but Iam scared it’ll spread. Thanks for the help. Any thought on why my zoa is the way it is would be appreciated as well.