Zoas and Xenia Help

[ItsAllGood]

New to the aquarium world and hoping you guys can help me out. I just brought a frag of pink zoa and pom pom xenia last night. Today I notice the zoas are cover in some white stuff, five head are open and the rest are close/cover in white. Also, the xenia look pale.

Please Help.

 

[baseballman 25]

I would check your parameters.

 

[ItsAllGood]

I do a weekly water change and test, last time it check out fine, but will do another one test tonite. I do a drip aclimation for about a hour, how do you aclimate these guys?

 

[ZoaFan08]

I never acclimate my coral, I just dip them in Revive/Lugols and put in the aquarium.

How long has the tank been setup? What is your salinity/calcium/alk? What kind of salt do you use?

Xenia is hit and miss, some people get it to grow like weeds others just have it melt away.

 

[Puffalicious]

do u have a pic of the zoas with white stuff on it? it might be zoa pox

 

[ZoaFan08]

Do you have revive or lugols? Where are you located?

 

[ItsAllGood]

Thanks for all the reply guys. I brought the tank use and were setup for a couple of years so everything should be stable. My salinity is 1.023, nitrate,nitrite,amonia are 0, I dont have a alk/calcium test.

whats revive and lugols? I live in Irvine.
I'll try to get some good pic of the zoa tonite.

 

[ItsAllGood]

here's the pics...

 

[coral diver]

Coral tend to produce mucus and cover them self try to place them in a med to high flow 90% of softies like dirty water or high nutrient water you can also add strontium and iodine important test to do is what i call "the big MAC" Magnesium, Alkalinity & Calcium.

 

[halvc909]

it looks kinda weird, never seen anything like this before...alien zoas? lol

 

[ItsAllGood]

Yea its pretty weird, it has about 20-25 head and now most of them are cover.

Jojo- thanks for the advice, do you think i should remove the mucus or just leave it?

 

[ZoaFan08]

Looks like they are melting away, how long have you had the tank up?

 

[RTG]

I'd remove the zoas from the tank and swoosh it in some tank water to remove that film. It's reacting to something obviously but that coating will keep water from circulating in and around the polyps which it needs to cleanse itself.

 

[ItsAllGood]

I have the tank set-up for 1 month now. But were previously set-up for a couple years already so I dont relly have to go through a cycle.

RTG-will definitely take your advice and do the rinsing.

 

[RTG]

So the tank was running but not set up? huh? You can experience a cycle and ammonia spike just moving a lot of stuff around in a tank or increasing the bio-load more than the system can handle until it can catch up.

 

[ItsAllGood]

Well i guess you can say the tank were running for a few years. I basically went to pick it up while its still running, keep all the rocks and water in a container and drove back and had it running in my apartment after 1 hour drive. Its been running in my apartment for a month now.

 

[lllDNYlll]

I fraged some of my zoa's and used wrong crazy glue and they looked like that.

 

[Krucial08]

Hey if you need more xenia let me know, I will be glad to frag you a stalk for free. I understand how it is when you are starting off. LMK
Claudio

 

[ItsAllGood]

Thanks Krucial,very nice of you. Supinsfishy already hook me up with a few frag already after mine melt away. If you want any colt coral, LMK. I'm in OC tho, not sure if its worth the drive.

 

[Krucial08]

Its ok man. I have colt too. lol. Glad you have some new xenia. If yu ever wanna trade frags or something lmk. Good luck
Claudio