What is wrong with my Zoa?

jeepguy242 · 02/04/2018, 06:45 PM

go this beautiful Toxic Smash last friday... drip acclimated it for 30 minutes.... looked for hitchhikers with a magnifying glass and bright flashlight and didn't see a thing...

since i only have some mushrooms and GSP in my tank i just put him in....

opened up right away, and even looked like it was eating when i fed my fish (closed up on some food)

looked great till tonight when i came home from work... checked the tank and i found this

looks like an air bubble caught inside the skin...

tank parameters 125 gallon with 40 gallon sump (165 total water)
temp 79
salinity 1.025 (calibrated refractometer)
alk 9 dKH
cal 390
mag (expired test kit) 1280
phos .04
nitrate 5ppm
ammonia 0
nitrite 0

these frags are on the sand under 250 watt 20k radium MH lights with a reef bright actinic supplement about 32" under the MH lights and 28" under the reefbrite

light cycle
2pm actinic reef bright on 2pm reef bright off (12 hours)
4pm MH on 10pm off (7 hours)

in the area this frag is is low to medium flow lights on and low flow lights off

looked at it at 11 pm last night and it was fine.... tonight at 11pm it was like this... can't say what it was this morning because i had to go to work early

all other zoa's i got with this one look great, and the acans and chalice frags also look good

i have been vodka dosing 5ml for 160 gallons for 2 weeks before i got this one to bring nitrates down and i am down to a 2ml maintenance dose

is this normal with zoo's? and should i be worried?

other zoas and frags i got in the same shipment look great

rogersb · 02/05/2018, 10:03 AM

The pic is so massive it's hard to look at, but from what I can tell there is probably nothing wrong with it. These zoas are hard to kill, so I would just give it some time.

ontop27 · 02/05/2018, 11:03 AM

Personally... i would hope it died. You have a larger tank so not as bad, but that is one of the most invasive poylps you can get... toxic smash... that made me giggle its a brighter green button polyp.

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101010 · 02/05/2018, 11:32 AM

That looks normal.

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02/04/2018, 06:45 PM	#1
jeepguy242 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Winston Salem NC Posts: 370	What is wrong with my Zoa? go this beautiful Toxic Smash last friday... drip acclimated it for 30 minutes.... looked for hitchhikers with a magnifying glass and bright flashlight and didn't see a thing... since i only have some mushrooms and GSP in my tank i just put him in.... opened up right away, and even looked like it was eating when i fed my fish (closed up on some food) looked great till tonight when i came home from work... checked the tank and i found this looks like an air bubble caught inside the skin... tank parameters 125 gallon with 40 gallon sump (165 total water) temp 79 salinity 1.025 (calibrated refractometer) alk 9 dKH cal 390 mag (expired test kit) 1280 phos .04 nitrate 5ppm ammonia 0 nitrite 0 these frags are on the sand under 250 watt 20k radium MH lights with a reef bright actinic supplement about 32" under the MH lights and 28" under the reefbrite light cycle 2pm actinic reef bright on 2pm reef bright off (12 hours) 4pm MH on 10pm off (7 hours) in the area this frag is is low to medium flow lights on and low flow lights off looked at it at 11 pm last night and it was fine.... tonight at 11pm it was like this... can't say what it was this morning because i had to go to work early all other zoa's i got with this one look great, and the acans and chalice frags also look good i have been vodka dosing 5ml for 160 gallons for 2 weeks before i got this one to bring nitrates down and i am down to a 2ml maintenance dose is this normal with zoo's? and should i be worried? other zoas and frags i got in the same shipment look great __________________ Greensboro NC area reef club Current Tank Info: 125 mixed reef, 40 gallon sump, mag 9.5 return, quiet one 6000 closed loop, reef octo NWB-150 2010 model, diy kalkwasser reactor and ATO, 3 250 watt MH 14k

02/05/2018, 10:03 AM	#2
rogersb Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: white haven Posts: 1,135	The pic is so massive it's hard to look at, but from what I can tell there is probably nothing wrong with it. These zoas are hard to kill, so I would just give it some time.

02/05/2018, 11:03 AM	#3
ontop27 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 150	Personally... i would hope it died. You have a larger tank so not as bad, but that is one of the most invasive poylps you can get... toxic smash... that made me giggle its a brighter green button polyp. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

02/05/2018, 11:32 AM	#4
101010 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2017 Posts: 86	That looks normal. Sent from my ASUS_Z00AD using Tapatalk