Zoa Pox Woe

[Kataro]

So I got a colony of zoa yesterday, Dipped it and inspect.. nothing was out of the ordinary.

Some open after a few hours but some started to melt, later that night I check and saw some zoapox on some of the polyp and I immediately removed the colony..

It look like there are still some healthy polyp on the colony, should I try to frag and save those? Or just trash the colony ?

Was thinking about Furan 2, but fragging might be easier there arent that many healthy ones

 

[joshporksandwich]

Frag

 

[jonny]

Had zoa pox a while back..look up peroxide dip..worked wonders for me!

 

[Kataro]

Should I run Furan 2 on the fresh frag too

 

[jonny]

I say, do what you normally would for your frags, and then follow up with a peroxide dip..I personally don't think furan is necessary if you dip peroxide..but I'm not a zoa expert..just a guy who did it one time lol

 

[secretreefer]

PREP: Make 1 container (tupperware or big bowl) of-- 1 cup tank saltwater, 10 drops peroxide, mix thoroughly.
Make another container (tupperware or big bowl)-2 cups tankwater, 2 drops lugols, mix thoroughly.
Frag zoas, leave them in another tupperware in clean tank water.
Get mr clean magic eraser (ORIGINAL), cut small 1 inch x 1/4 inch wedges,

TREAT: Dip mr clean WEDGES into perox/water mixture
GENTLY wipe CLOSED POLYP zoas, removing all signs of pox. DO NOT DIP/SUBMERGE ZOAS INTO SOLUTION.
Rinse in tank water container,
Let frag sit in lugols solution for 2 mins. (if any slime secreted on polyp, wipe off with new wedge of magic eraser)
Put on frag rack with medium flow and medium/low light.

Enjoy.

 

[jonny]

That mr clean idea is amazing..I'll be using that trick if I ever have to use it again..god forbid..haha

 

[secretreefer]

awesome! Glad i could help. yes God forbid! (zoapox hater right here)

 

[saliva911]

i haven't delt with zoa pox in a while i woul frag sometimes you can scrape it off carefully without hurting the polyp

 

[secretreefer]

i haven't delt with zoa pox in a while i woul frag sometimes you can scrape it off carefully without hurting the polyp

yup! :bigsmile:. i found using the original mr clean cut into small wedges gets them and other algae off very well. even inbetween zoa polyps.