why does this happen and how do i stop it...??

[gumbii]

sorry for the crummy cell phone pic...





on that rock i had some nuclear greens growing and purple deaths racing for real estate... and today the NG's look like this... this happened to my buddies colony that i was baby sitting in my tank too... fail...


why doesn't this happen to the PD's...? or could it be that a rotting anthias corpse was laying itself on top of the colony...???


LOL... sorry...







so yeah... how do i fix it...?

 

[coachfraley]

turkey baster?

 

[gumbii]

they're covered with some fuzzy stuff, and they're melting... i don't think it can just be blasted off with a turkey baster...


so what do i do...?

 

[happaman]

Some folks swear by Vitamin C for zoa health...in the Chicago RC forums someone named pufferpunk claimed it saved hers from melting away--I've never used it but it does seem like it's helped some reefers around the country.

 

[gumbii]

i'll scope that out...


ugh... i hate polyps now... i want to get rid of them all... ajskld;fjas;kldfjas;ldfkjaskdfl;ja dsfldasj ff djasfkjas d;f

 

[strenuous biomarker]

bigger water changes....llooks like a nutrient issue

 

[IEreefmaster]

Too bad two, it seems if they were fighting for real estate, you were well on you way to creating a couple-o- twoface palys!

 

[jason142]

I was recommended to a fw dip, followed by a furan-2 dip. I am alays losing zoas but have managed to save a few with this treatment. I have also done iodine dips with lugols. Either way doing both treatments some make it some don't, good luck

 

[JOSE CASAS]

Thats sucks...........did any thing sting them?

 

[JOSE CASAS]

That echinata acan is awfully close.

 

[jason142]

That echinata acan is awfully close.

Now that I look, I agree completely. I had my orange echinata wipe out two colony's of zoas before I realized it was him, look at night and they extend fealers that crawl across anything. Deadly little buggers that look like they are straight out of a scifi horror flick.

 

[gumbii]

i came to the conclusion that it was the DnD salt... i switched to TMP and now everything is growing again... and no they aren't getting beat up by the echinata... they are even closer now than before...


this bump was teh fail...

 

[Majorbonr]

That echinata acan is awfully close.

It does seem too close. My enchinata just destroyed a really nice chunk of a beautiful welsoni. it was about as close as your picture. I'm so pissed.

I just had about over $1000 in z/p's melt and destroyed by zoa pox triggered by temp and salinity swings during that heatwave 2 weeks ago!! argghh!, 3 big colonies of aussie paly's, 5 utter chaos, rastas, gobbstoppers, darth mauls, speckled reds, purple hornets and others disinegrated. I'm barely getting out of my depression from it! this hobby hurts sometimes. :bawling::bawling::bawling:

 

[IEreefmaster]

That echinata acan is awfully close.

That's what I was thinking Jose. Those things sting everything in there surroundings.

 

[gumbii]

do i have to take another pic...??? they are fine... even closer than before... a polyp won't invade a LPS... and it's a protopaly... they can't get killed by any LPS... well... maybe a firecoral, or dendro...