Predators - Identification Please

[FireWater]

Look for Furan2. It is a fresh water fish medication used for treatment of several infections/diseases. Do a search for "dipping zoas with Furan" and follow those directions. From the pic I do not believe you have zoa pox. If it is some other kind of infection the Furan2 might help. The black stuff looks like a sponge or bacterial algae to me. If the zoas built up with detritus then the copepods and other critters will pick around them and that can cause them to stay shut for a while from the constant picking.

When you say you lost them in a couple of days - what happened? Did they stay closed and melt away? were they open and pieces were missing?

[LuckySingh]

That blk stuff looks like the cyano bacteria to me and it takes over pretty quick...which i would concern more...lack of flow,bulb with low spectrum and excess nutrients

[ryanmoorman]

Look for Furan2. It is a fresh water fish medication used for treatment of several infections/diseases. Do a search for "dipping zoas with Furan" and follow those directions. From the pic I do not believe you have zoa pox. If it is some other kind of infection the Furan2 might help. The black stuff looks like a sponge or bacterial algae to me. If the zoas built up with detritus then the copepods and other critters will pick around them and that can cause them to stay shut for a while from the constant picking.

When you say you lost them in a couple of days - what happened? Did they stay closed and melt away? were they open and pieces were missing?

Yeah i left Saturday morning after FW dipping them and went to see family for the weekend. When i got back the colony looked like the second picture. They basically melted away. They looked to completely gone by late night Monday. I tried fragging a couple areas where the zoas looked potentially capable of recovering. They are in the other tank and have not opened yet. Its possible theres excessive nutrients thought my cal, alk, phosphate , hardness are all ideal... My Nitrate is the only thing elevated at I think 40 PPM and havent tested since I did a partial water change on Tuesday night. I am planning on taking out the bio balls today or tomorrow (slowly) and switching it to live rock. I should have enough movement to avoid the detritus but thats a possibility. Have 1200 gph, 750 gph, 250 in rear power heads and have a sump pulling 400ishgph and a hob backup filter doing 300gal.... so thats 2500-3000 gal a hour on a 65gal tank.

[ryanmoorman]

Yeah i left Saturday morning after FW dipping them and went to see family for the weekend. When i got back the colony looked like the second picture. They basically melted away. They looked to completely gone by late night Monday. I tried fragging a couple areas where the zoas looked potentially capable of recovering. They are in the other tank and have not opened yet. Its possible theres excessive nutrients thought my cal, alk, phosphate , hardness are all ideal... My Nitrate is the only thing elevated at I think 40 PPM and havent tested since I did a partial water change on Tuesday night. I am planning on taking out the bio balls today or tomorrow (slowly) and switching it to live rock. I should have enough movement to avoid the detritus but thats a possibility. Have 1200 gph, 750 gph, 250 in rear power heads and have a sump pulling 400ishgph and a hob backup filter doing 300gal.... so thats 2500-3000 gal a hour on a 65gal tank.

I will defiently do the research on the Furan... I have never heard of this methode but will consider.

[FireWater]

Just do a search like I posted earlier and you will find several different places with information. I was pointed to the furan2 and that is what I used with good results.