Zoa Help

[JonoB]

Ever since I started my new tank (been going for a few months now), my zoas have really struggled. They did great in my last tank, but they almost never open all the way. I'm including a picture, this is pretty much how they always look.

I have tried moving them around to different flow/lighting thinking that was the issue, but no luck there. I didn't move them fast, would move them and let them stay there for a couple of weeks.

Next thought was it's probably some sort of pest that has been introduced. I haven't been able to see anything crawling on them, but I did dip everything in CoralRX. Should I continue dipping them, try something else to dip?

I'm basically just lost on what to do.

I need to go look at what my last params were but I'm pretty sure it was something like this:

Alk 9
Calcium 410
Mg 1300
Phos .02
Salinity 1.026
Temp 78

Also I'm using a hydra26 for lighting in a 60g cube.

 

[JonoB]

Also, I'm pretty positive the white spots on the zoas in that picture are just sand. I'll take another picture tomorrow and see.

 

[dannyab84]

Age of the tank? how many fish?

Don't dip them again.

And what are they? hard to tell from the picture. Have you tired any other types of zoa's?

 

[JonoB]

I guess I'm not sure how to answer the "age of the tank" question because I've only had this actual glass box for 3-4 months, but all the rock and most of the coral I've had for over a year now. I've just had to transfer it to a different tank....twice.

Right now I only have 2 fish. I lost my fish to ich so I'm slowly rebuilding, but QTing everything. I will be adding 2 more on Tuesday.

I'll see if I can figure out the types of zoas I have. Most of them I bought from my local LFS so I didn't have any names. I know I have about 6 polyps of Scrambled eggs, and it's the one colony that seems to at least open all the way.

The ones in the picture above are a bright pink color. Maybe twizlers? I'm not sure.