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Posted: July 26 2011 at 10:56am |
 ... not sure what is happening but I've been getting this brown Fungus on my zoo's and a lot of them are shrinking and dieing  . Anyone have a good fix for this? I had my water tested by the LFS and they said everything looked good.
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Posted: July 26 2011 at 11:02am |
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try an iodine dip.
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Posted: July 26 2011 at 11:05am |
Do I use straight Iodine? Or dilute it?
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Posted: July 26 2011 at 12:19pm |
Try here Zoa Dip
This might be even better
Edited by TriggerHappy - July 26 2011 at 12:26pm
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Posted: July 26 2011 at 1:30pm |
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cool, thanks! I will try dipping them today. It's going to suck because most of my Zoa's are glued to my LR :(
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Posted: July 27 2011 at 9:30am |
Here is a pic of the crap I'm suspecting that is killing my zoo's. 
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Posted: July 27 2011 at 10:45am |
I just noticed this same stuff on my zoanthids last night. I have lost three expensive frags of zoanthids in my tank and can't figure it out for the life of me. All parameters are right on and I have tried multiple dips and scrubs to save them. Nothing has worked so I am just letting them die off at this point.
People can say what they want but zoanthids are NOT beginner corals nor are they easy to care for. I have been in this hobby for 6 years and it is usually just a matter or time before zoanthids start melting for no apparent reason.
Sorry to see this man! Keep your head up
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Posted: July 27 2011 at 11:04am |
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Hmmm...so probably a good idea to frag unaffected zoa's ASAP.
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Posted: July 27 2011 at 11:07am |
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I'm gonna catch crap for this, but maybe using buffered Sodium Ascorbate (powdered Vit C) may help? If you are interested, I can find the thread for you.
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Posted: July 27 2011 at 11:14am |
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The wierd thing is that this stuff is attacking everything now, my candy corals look bad, even my xenia looks horrible and that stuff was growing out of control a few weeks ago...
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Posted: July 27 2011 at 11:27am |
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is it red? looks like cyano (red slime) with the bubbles.
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Posted: July 27 2011 at 11:30am |
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It's more of a brownish color but my lighting is kinda wierd so it may be red???
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Posted: July 27 2011 at 11:47am |
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Mine definitely isn't cyano. Looks like Brown Jelly disease but I didn't think it attacked zoos.
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Posted: July 27 2011 at 11:52am |
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Yea, mine is growing all over my glass, I keep scraping it off but it's almost like hair algae too because it gets these long strands hanging all over too. It sucks you are having the same problem but at least I'm not alone... lol
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