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Posted: October 26 2008 at 4:14pm |
My zooa's have been looking like this for the last week or so does anyone know whats going on with them? Its just not the ones that are in the pictures there are a few others that are starting to go like this and ideas on how to fix it? Thanks for taking your time with this.
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salt- 1.026
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Thanks for looking and helping me out.
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Posted: October 26 2008 at 4:18pm |
I wish I knew. It doesn't look good. I hope someone knows what to do soon.
Mike
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Posted: October 26 2008 at 4:27pm |
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Your telling me that they dont look good there even worst looking in person.
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Posted: October 26 2008 at 5:04pm |
Doesn't look like zoo pox, it just looks like they are dyeing. I stubbled on a HUGE thread off of Reef Central about dosing Vitamin C tablets (just the regular 1000 mg tablets from costco or whatever). They had some pics of some zooanthids looking the exact same way and they guy dosed with Vitamin C and over about 2 weeks they came back to full health. Heres the link (I hope it's ok to post links to another forum, if not sorry) - http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1252294&perpage=25&pagenumber=1
Good luck, I would hate to loose a colony as beautiful as that.
Off topic- Questions for the mods, why do I keep getting weird A symbols when I post but when I go to edit they are not there?
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Posted: October 26 2008 at 5:12pm |
here is the secret you give a frag to danner and with you being generous the zoos decide to fight for life. lol jk i hope you get it worked out
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Posted: October 26 2008 at 5:13pm |
Looks like something may be growing on it. Brush it with a toothbrush and then post another pic and tell us what brushed off. Normally these coral are very tough, and they seem to like a good brushing. 
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Posted: October 26 2008 at 5:13pm |
I found another link that might help with the vitamin C- http://www.athiel.com/lib2/pguide/vitami1.html#dose
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Posted: October 26 2008 at 5:24pm |
I have several zoo colony's that are doing the same thing. I had one whole colony of pink tonga zoos look like that and were dead within a week. I am going to try the brush thing.
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Posted: October 26 2008 at 5:34pm |
Well I just pulled out my tooth brush and scrub them up and this is what they look like.
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Posted: October 26 2008 at 7:16pm |
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Well after reading through most of that thread on RC I thought what the hell I will give it a try. I just dropped a 1000mg tablet in my sump. I will start out by 1000 X2a day then after a week I will go to 2000 X2 a day and see how it goes from there. I will keep everyone posted on the out come of it.
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Posted: October 26 2008 at 9:27pm |
I'm definitely interested in the outcome. I hope it is favorable.
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Posted: October 27 2008 at 7:58am |
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Same here I will post picture updates on the Vit C outcome for everyone here local to see if it does work.
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Posted: October 27 2008 at 4:10pm |
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Man that looks worse than I thought. Looks to me like some sort of fungus and it seems to have spread over the entire colony. It's probably communicable too.
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Posted: October 27 2008 at 4:22pm |
I hope you can figure it out... keep us posted!
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Posted: October 27 2008 at 5:49pm |
Well things are not looking better its gone to more heads on it. I will post some pictures here in just a few mins of it now. It looks like it has some small white spots on them also other than just the yellow color to them.
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Posted: October 27 2008 at 6:03pm |
I would frag a piece that isn't showing the fungus and see if the frag opens when it is away from the source. you could frag off the infected area?
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Posted: October 27 2008 at 6:10pm |
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I just read the RC thread on Vitamin C... and I think I'm going to start trying this tonight. I have all but given up on Zoas, because nothing I do seems to keep them alive, and I'm sick of buying cool ones, only to watch them die... anyway, I'll keep everyone posted on what happens.
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Posted: October 27 2008 at 6:10pm |
Some picture updates for everyone. Its not looking to well.
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Posted: October 27 2008 at 9:34pm |
I would call Jared Butler (jbutler) and see what he advises.
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Posted: October 28 2008 at 2:27am |
That definatly looks like zoa fungus. If you have the means to quarentine any infected coloines, do so. From what I understand it is very similar to normal fungus in that there are spores which can spread throughout a given system. I had limited luck with an Iodine then hydrogen peroxide dip on my outbreak.
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Also there were some other threads on the subject over at RC.com
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