Not sure what this is

I am not sure what is going on with these they have always been open all day everyday and since yesterday they look like they do in the pic.

I got to see your tank today, my wife and I like what you've done with it.  Very nice.

Maybe something in the tank bothered it.  I've noticed your sixline likes to zip in and out of your zoo colonies looking for yummies.


Edited by sterling18 - July 05 2010 at 6:50pm

bstuver wrote: Maybe that's it, he likes to be a pain. I hope the flasher is doing well.  Thanks:)

Spent an hour to acclimate him then introduced him to the tank with the light out.  An hour later I turned on the lights and he was playing well with the other clowns.  Your husband said your clown and sixline was picking on him or her.  Didn't know clowns would get territorial.

Anybody else have any idea? I have had both this coral and the wrasse since the same time and it has never been like this.

CapnMorgan wrote: It looks to me like they have some white spots on the stems. They could have zoanthid pox.   This is a great article with pics and treatment info. http://www.zoaid.com/articles004.php

That looks like what it might be, do I treat all the zoas in my tank or just the ones that look infected? Also can this be on button polyps as well or is it just a zoas thing? I am thinking some of my button polyps and other polyp ones look to have the same thing happening.

I have had to add alk buffer to it to get it to go up, I just completely forgot to do it this week.
My PH is always at 8.0 should I add a buffer to get it up as well?

bstuver wrote: That looks like what it might be, do I treat all the zoas in my tank or just the ones that look infected? Also can this be on button polyps as well or is it just a zoas thing? I am thinking some of my button polyps and other polyp ones look to have the same thing happening.

So I decided to see if the white stuff would come off as it didn't look exactly like the pox pics I looked through, I used my turkey baster and blew a few clouds of water around them, the white floated off so I am guessing it isn't pox and just debris problem is they are still closed up not all but most.
I did a water change last night to see if it might help out but didn't notice any change.
Checked params today:
Nitrite-0
Nitrate less than 5
Ammonia-0
calcium- 420
PH 8.0
phosphate less than 0.25
alk-10.08 dkh I am slowly raising this
salinity- 1.025
temp- 80.2


Edited by bstuver - July 08 2010 at 6:30pm

I will get some taken:)

They dont look like they did on the first pic. In fact i dont see a pox on the zoas. Nice tank BTW