Zoa's not doing well?

[Williamthegr88]

so I added these zoa's about a week ago don't seem to be doing well my tank has been going for 7 weeks water parameter seem to be good there is a hermit crab that's keys bothering then as you can see in pic could that be why?

 

[RJinPV]

Once the hermit moves on they should open up. It's probably something else. Are the other zoas ok and growing? What kind of lights do you have?

 

[Williamthegr88]

I'm using Hydra 26 HD and the zoa's are not growing yet there only been in tank 7 days I bought 3 frags 1 looks great nice and open and other 2 not opening up to well

 

[Tahoe61]

The hermit is just grazing on goodies on the frags, once that food source is gone the hermit will move on. You might consider dipping the zoanthids and see if any pest fall off.

 

[Williamthegr88]

I just noticed there's a bit of algae growing on the one and I did dip before I put in tank

 

[Tahoe61]

Well then I would give the zoanthids more time.

 

[Williamthegr88]

Well then I would give the zoanthids more time.

Ok will do I'll give it a couple of more days if they don't start to open mabe try another dip and see if anything comes off

 

[RJinPV]

If it is hair algae see if you can get it off now. Zoas do not have a good defense against algae. I lost a large patch of BamBams to GHA. Also make sure your phosphate is <o.05 ppm and nitrates are below 5ppm to prevent an outbreak

How do you like the Hydra 26? I have two T5s and a couple of Primes on my tank

 

[Williamthegr88]

If it is hair algae see if you can get it off now. Zoas do not have a good defense against algae. I lost a large patch of BamBams to GHA. Also make sure your phosphate is <o.05 ppm and nitrates are below 5ppm to prevent an outbreak

How do you like the Hydra 26? I have two T5s and a couple of Primes on my tank

It is green hair algae I have been fighting it for a couple of weeks it's tough it is getting better but taking time I'll get it off today and I like them a lot I like being able to use app and how you can customize the coloring

 

[RJinPV]

My Primes keep dropping connection to my network and to each other. I hope yours does better. I like the light otherwise

 

[Williamthegr88]

yea I have it through the cloud which seems to work good should I just pick algae of by hand? Or is there another method?

 

[twilliard]

Algae can be controlled with H2O2 spot treatment