Wth?!?!?

[whyamisofl]

Anyone know a reason I can keep zoa's without a problem, but as soon as I put a new shipment of paly's in....THEY MELT!!!!

I just traded out some of my zoanthids for a 30+ colony of RPE. I got the shipment on Friday from California, dipped them, and threw them in my tank. Only thing I thought was odd was that the water was cold and wasn't smelling the greatest......I put them in a shady part of the tank with moderate flow.
I wake up this morning to find about 15 left of the entire colony. Now, this isn't the first time this has happened with paly's, I have done the whole AOG, WOG, and PPE........

My zoanthids are THRIVING!

Anything I can do to try and save the remaining polyps???

 

[rebelprettyboy]

Same thing happens in my aquapod. Never found out what was up I just fragged em out and let the rest stay and they dont look to well.
What are you parameters?

 

[codylowe]

It may be pods that are eating the tissue overnight -- It has happened to me before. Take a look at them with a flashlight after the lights go out.
Try to raise them off the sand bed/live rock by putting it on a frag rack. Or on a high rock in the corner of the tank.
If it was smelling funky when you got it... the pods probably smelled a nice paly dinner.

 

[rebelprettyboy]

Any reason why pods go after zoa? And any other methods to prevent it?

 

[codylowe]

Originally Posted by rebelprettyboy
http:///forum/post/2685421
Any reason why pods go after zoa? And any other methods to prevent it?
I don't understand it... I figured i just had a strain that ate them. I literally pulled out all of the zoa frags out of my main tank because of the pods. Now i have a zoa frag tank and my main tank is now only for SPS.

 

[whyamisofl]

Looks like 1, ONE, of them may come out and play......(Fingers crossed!) I can see a bright green mouth partially sticking out!

 

[rkesling]

I had the same problem with some pink Palys and I SOAKED them in pure iodine and placed them under some 50/50 CF lighting...they are all opened now.