Zoa polyps Falling off

[OceanMinded]

Has anyone experienced zoa’s detaching from the plug/frag? I have (had) a full plug of Pink Diamonds and I’ve noticed 3-4 polyps floating around my tank. The frag used to be really healthy and now it’s starting to get smaller and smaller, as well as single polyps coming loose. Lights are still off otherwise I’d post a picture. Thanks!

 

[danieyella]

Do you have an emerald crab by chance?

 

[Lyngsaa]

I had a zoa detatch however it manage to settle in a different spot in my tank. It seems to be happy in it’s new spot.

guess it didn’t like the other zoas and took a hike

 

[OceanMinded]

Do you have an emerald crab by chance?

Oh no...I just added two in hopes they would get rid of the bubble algae.
I’m trying to remember if this started happening before or right after. This is the only zoa frag that’s like this, and my tank is 98% zoanthids and paly’s

 

[tehmadreefer]

Oh no...I just added two in hopes they would get rid of the bubble algae.
I’m trying to remember if this started happening before or right after. This is the only zoa frag that’s like this, and my tank is 98% zoanthids and paly’s

Rut roh

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

Glue it down to somewhere else. I have a huge alpha/omega colony that ejected three of four heads. I just glued them to a new rock to start a garden.

Has anyone experienced zoa’s detaching from the plug/frag? I have (had) a full plug of Pink Diamonds and I’ve noticed 3-4 polyps floating around my tank. The frag used to be really healthy and now it’s starting to get smaller and smaller, as well as single polyps coming loose. Lights are still off otherwise I’d post a picture. Thanks!

 

[OceanMinded]

Glue it down to somewhere else. I have a huge alpha/omega colony that ejected three of four heads. I just glued them to a new rock to start a garden.

One of them actually did land in a little crack. The the two I left floating around, I figured they would find a new home..somewhere lol.

The whole frag was doing really well and once my Stylo started growing closer I noticed the polyps started retracting a bit. That’s when the whole frag started getting loose from the rock (it had overgrown the plug and started growing on the rock at this point)

I figured the SPS was stinging the crap out of it, but I don’t know if that would cause single polyps to detach and float away. But maybe I’m wrong!

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

One of them actually did land in a little crack. The the two I left floating around, I figured they would find a new home..somewhere lol.

The whole frag was doing really well and once my Stylo started growing closer I noticed the polyps started retracting a bit. That’s when the whole frag started getting loose from the rock (it had overgrown the plug and started growing on the rock at this point)

I figured the SPS was stinging the crap out of it, but I don’t know if that would cause single polyps to detach and float away. But maybe I’m wrong!

Mine just came loose. Sometimes when they grow from a plug to the rock they don’t make the best connection for whatever reason. My engineer goby is constantly kicking up sand so most times I can just pull polyps off a rock because they’re growing on a thin layer of sand over everything.

But yeah some sps stings I think. Don’t really know Ima a zoa and LPS fanatic.

 

[PicassoClown04]

It could be a form of polyp bailout, I keep my zoas separate from the main rock work because I tend to frag & sell. Just move them away from each other and hopefully, they stop doing that. Most likely, you can simply glue the floating polyps onto a plug or rubble (to give you a more natural transition to the rock) and they'll open up and be alright. Zoas are super resilient and hopefully, they will take well to this unorthodox situation.