Not sure what this is
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Topic: Not sure what this is
Posted By: bstuver
Subject: Not sure what this is
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 6:43pm
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. ------------- Jackie Stuver "wait these aren't the happy Hawaiians oompa doompa godly heaven on your face zoas? I dont want them then. lol!" Ksmart |
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Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 6:46pm
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My water params are: Calcium 400 Alk 8dkh Ph 8.0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate under 5 I am going to up my alk a bit I think do I need to up the cal as well? ------------- Jackie Stuver "wait these aren't the happy Hawaiians oompa doompa godly heaven on your face zoas? I dont want them then. lol!" Ksmart |
Posted By: sterling18
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 6:48pm
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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. |
Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 6:53pm
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Maybe that's it, he likes to be a pain. I hope the flasher is doing well. Thanks:)
------------- Jackie Stuver "wait these aren't the happy Hawaiians oompa doompa godly heaven on your face zoas? I dont want them then. lol!" Ksmart |
Posted By: sterling18
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 6:59pm
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. |
bstuver wrote:Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 7:05pm
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Yea I don't know if it was because it was orange or what but it didn't like it!! ------------- Jackie Stuver "wait these aren't the happy Hawaiians oompa doompa godly heaven on your face zoas? I dont want them then. lol!" Ksmart |
Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 11:04pm
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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.
------------- Jackie Stuver "wait these aren't the happy Hawaiians oompa doompa godly heaven on your face zoas? I dont want them then. lol!" Ksmart |
Posted By: CapnMorgan
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 11:12pm
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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 - http://www.zoaid.com/articles004.php ------------- Steve http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40637&PID=356246" rel="nofollow - My Old 180G Mixed Reef Currently: 120G Wavefront Mixed 29G Seahorse & Softies Running ReefAngel Plus x2 435-8 |
Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 11:26pm
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. ------------- Jackie Stuver "wait these aren't the happy Hawaiians oompa doompa godly heaven on your face zoas? I dont want them then. lol!" Ksmart |
Posted By: arthuriv
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 12:23am
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Your Alk and pH are on the lower limit of the recommended ranges: alk 8-14dkH and pH 8.0 - 8.3. Are those values normal for your tank? ------------- Quality Marines Aquaculturing & Captive Breeding program! Presented by Ashley & Chelsea from Reef On Thursday 6 Oct 2016 |
Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 12:33am
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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? ------------- Jackie Stuver "wait these aren't the happy Hawaiians oompa doompa godly heaven on your face zoas? I dont want them then. lol!" Ksmart |
Posted By: CapnMorgan
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 12:38am
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By managing your alk, your pH will usually come into line on it's own. ------------- Steve http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40637&PID=356246" rel="nofollow - My Old 180G Mixed Reef Currently: 120G Wavefront Mixed 29G Seahorse & Softies Running ReefAngel Plus x2 435-8 |
Posted By: CapnMorgan
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 12:39am
Treat only the polyps currently infected with the pox, paly's can get pox as well, though it is very uncommon ------------- Steve http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40637&PID=356246" rel="nofollow - My Old 180G Mixed Reef Currently: 120G Wavefront Mixed 29G Seahorse & Softies Running ReefAngel Plus x2 435-8 |
Posted By: SGH360
Date Posted: July 06 2010 at 12:58am
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Could the healthy ones be carries of the disease? if not i would frag them and quaratine the ones that arent. From the article i read i see that there is not know cure yet, just possibilties. Furan 2 well i buy it dont see another way hopefully it works. Dang wish the chicken pox cure would work on this
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Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: July 08 2010 at 6:27pm
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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 ------------- Jackie Stuver "wait these aren't the happy Hawaiians oompa doompa godly heaven on your face zoas? I dont want them then. lol!" Ksmart |
Posted By: SGH360
Date Posted: July 08 2010 at 7:04pm
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you got any recent pics?
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Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: July 08 2010 at 7:10pm
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I will get some taken:)
------------- Jackie Stuver "wait these aren't the happy Hawaiians oompa doompa godly heaven on your face zoas? I dont want them then. lol!" Ksmart |
Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: July 08 2010 at 7:50pm
  
------------- Jackie Stuver "wait these aren't the happy Hawaiians oompa doompa godly heaven on your face zoas? I dont want them then. lol!" Ksmart |
Posted By: SGH360
Date Posted: July 08 2010 at 8:04pm
| They dont look like they did on the first pic. In fact i dont see a pox on the zoas. Nice tank BTW |
Posted By: bstuver
Date Posted: July 08 2010 at 8:13pm
Yea as I said I blew them off with the baster and no more white, however they still aren't all opening Thank you  I am really enjoying it!!------------- Jackie Stuver "wait these aren't the happy Hawaiians oompa doompa godly heaven on your face zoas? I dont want them then. lol!" Ksmart |