Dying Zoa colony!

never heard of anything like that...but hey, whatever works for you

 

ditto,never heard that before either and every tank i've ever had has had zoas and shrooms.

From research i've done on mine,i've eliminated most all common probable causes,but i have also found several sources saying that zoas can do this from time to time for no appearent reason (or at least a still unknown reason),so i can feel your fustration.

 

yeah, that's exactly where I'm at with it. everything else looks great, and things just happen.that one can really say why. I would like to think that I know how to care for my corals. But at the same time this is a colony that was pulled from the ocean. And I have no idea what was going on with it, when I put it in my tank. I have been making a conscious effort recently to only get corals that came from a frag that was aquacultured in a tank. I think this can help in the long run with these "mysterious" issues that come along.

 

Sorry to see about your problem. I have had them go into a mysterious decline also. Sometimes a change in lighting can help. I think the various dips would be good.

 

Well I just finished dipping them in furan2 and found a sundial snail! hopefully this was the cause, and now that it has been removed, hopefully they will heal.

 

Sundial Snails - Treatment for Sundial Snail|Remove Sundial Snail - CoralRX

 

Hope that was the culprit, good luck

 

Hmm... I added some mushrooms to a zoanthid rock and the zoanthids and mushroom growth rates exploded. Seems to be forcing competition for space.

As to the snails, that's probably the culprit, but here is a good link I just posted in another thread, in case you didn't see it.

Zoanthid Predators, Irritators, & Diseases

 

Furan 2 works great for Zoa infections. I never had a lot of problems with them, but some would close up, and a few heads would melt here and there. I also thought there should be more growth. A couple of Furan 2 dips later, and everything is open. No troubles since then, and much better growth.

Also tried Furan 2 on some melting Acan Lords, and they recovered fully.

 

thanks m2434, I posted somewhere else, and they gave me the same link. i had seen it before, but it wasnt bookmarked like it is now.

And barbianj, thanks for the info. I'm hoping for a speedy recovery.