Sundial snails and white layer covering zoas

smork81

smork81

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OK i remembered a pic of the sundial snails from this board and caught 2 in my zoas and took them out of course. Noe the weird thing is I've ahd this whitish stuff covering my zoas that have died. It was some that were shipped to me and they never opened, developed more white layers of this stuff on them and even a daily rinsing to get this stiff off they still died. What is it??? I didnt take pictures but 3 colonies of zoas i just lost to this stuff.
As far as the sudial snails just remove them?? Do they leave a ton of babies behind or something..like tiny tiny ones you cant see ?
any info would be nice
thanks
 
mscarpena

mscarpena

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It is probably a fungus from the sundials eating part of the zoa's. I had another coral fall onto one of my zoa colonies and lost about half of the zoa colony to it. Next time try fraggin off the effect part of the zoa and tossing that part. Then do an iodine dip and return the clean part of the colony to your tank. I know it sucks just throwing out part of a coral, but you will most likely save the uneffected part.
 
smork81

smork81

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I tried scraping off the bad parts...they smelled horrible allready dead smelling. I too the ones that were open only and did a freshwater dip i dont have any iodine..And it still got to the colony that i fragged off and diped. The only thing i have is methylene blue ive used it on fish but is it coral safe and would it work for this white stuff growing on my zoas?
thanks
nika
 
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