Paly/Zoos not looking so good

[paintballer768]

Well I have a small colony of what look like palythoas (palys and zoos look alot alike so Im not quite sure which). Ill try to get a pic up today. But they have, towards the base of every individual polyp, brown dots or brown lines going up the stalk vertically. Should I be worried? Thanks

 

[perfectdark]

Pictures would help alot. Are these polyps that were doing well and then suddenly looking not so good?
If so hows your water chemistry and when was the last time you did a water change. Anything new in the tank?
Have you seen any unknown hitchikers roaming around them?

 

[paintballer768]

Pictures are coming up in just a minute. I added them last week, and they seemed to be doing fine, I never saw whats on them now until about 3 days ago.
Water chemistry is fine last time I checked (yesterday)
Ammonia - 0 ppm
Nitrite - 0 ppm
Nitrate - 20 ppm
Salinity - 1.025
Alkalinity was in the ideal range on the test strip, 300 ppm.
Last water change I did was I think 2 weeks ago, but I anticipate on doing one soon because I have some LFS water stored in the house for when I want to.
The only things I see around them are my hermits occasionally walking through the colony.

 

[perfectdark]

There are some parasites that can get on zoa's but I am not familiar with them. However ReefKprZ is very knowledgable about corals and zoa's he maybe able to help with this.

 

[paintballer768]

And just for the hell of it, does anyone know if my newly bought ricordea looks ok? Sorry for the bad quality on this one.

 

[paintballer768]

Originally Posted by PerfectDark
There are some parasites that can get on zoa's but I am not familiar with them. However ReefKprZ is very knowledgable about corals and zoa's he maybe able to help with this.
Thanks, I just uploaded the pics so hopefully someone will have experienced this before on theirs

 

[perfectdark]

IMO Your Ric looks fine it will take a few days for it to fully open but it looks good. Also IMO your zoa's look ok, although I am no expert it appears that because the polyps are stretching your just seeing the tissue elongated by an polyp stretching. I maybe wrong but I dont think you have anything to worry about.

 

[paintballer768]

I dont think the camera got a good shot of it, and you can barely see it in the first picture, but the elongated brown lines arent the only thing. Theres brownish patches also, and I want to make sure those are the same things as the elongation too. I heard somewhere the term "zoa pox," but dont know what it exactly is. Think it could be that?

 

[perfectdark]

Hmmm dont know. I dont know much about disese and treatments to make an educated guess sorry.

 

[paintballer768]

Originally Posted by PerfectDark
Hmmm dont know. I dont know much about disese and treatments to make an educated guess sorry.
Thanks, anyone else got any ideas too???

 

[hypertek99]

Your palys are fine. The brown stripes are normal on some palys. Your palys need more light. When they don't have enough light they will get long stalks like yours as they are reaching for the light. Oh and zoa pox are white dots so if you see white dots move them to higher flow to save them. Hey pm me you e-mail address i have something to e-mail you that can help you with zoas.

 

[paintballer768]

Ok thanks. Ill move them to the top rocks. Now it looks like the top rock is going to be all zoas and yellow polyps, and the mid/bottom is mushrooms and rics. Going to look cool, and pm sent.