zoa advice

My zoas were 100 percent open and vibrant with red color. This past weekend I have noticed that they look like crap. Not really open. Almost look sick. Can someone help me figure out how to recover from this Test day: Saturday Salinity 1.020 - I am slowly raising this Phosphates .16 Nitrites...

Now that I'm keeping zoas, Does this mean that the water in my tank is toxic? Even an accidental splash onto your mouth or face would be bad? Palytoxins on my filter sock? And inhaling beside my tank is dangerous because it's leveled almost the same of my height? And every evaporation, does...

I got all of these these coral frags in October 2023 and they were all thriving, bright and happy. A few weeks later I had a big alkalinity spike, killing most of my fish and a few bigger corals. Everything got sorted, and my LFS housed the remaining frags and fish. Since then I’ve had a bit of...

Hey Everyone, I had to work for a few weeks out of town and my wife was taking care of the new tank while I was away. This is the first time that I have kept corals and was wondering if Diatoms would affect Zoanthids. I have checked with a microscope and can see the ship like shape of the...

hey yall am not really sure what’s going on w these zoas, all my other ones are opening up fine. here are my parameters ammo:0.0 nitrate:0.1 nitrite:0.0 phosphate:lower than .1 but not quite 0 (using API phosphate test) i do not test alk,calcium, or mg as this is mainly a softie tank. the zoa...

Can anybody tell me what these neon polyps are that showed up on my new zoa? I assumed it was aiptasia, but never heard of a neon type. Thanks!

I have two zooanthids and was wondering what there names are! Any help would be great! Thanks!

Hi everyone, Can y’all please help me ID these? They came with the tank when I purchased it a few years back and I always thought they were zoas but was told recently otherwise. I was told they are captain jerks. Depending on the spot in the tank the color changes. I was going to bleach the...

Hi, all, I recently started moving into coral in my 6-month old tank and have several small frags of easy corals (zoas, Kenya tree, gsp, mushroom, Duncan, and a small favia I recently acquired). 20 gallon tank with 5 fish and several shrimp, snails, and blue hermits. 480 gph powerhead, Nicrew...

Can anyone tell me what kind of Zoa this is?

Zoa has been in tank for a couple months and slowly morphed from the normal cluster of purple people eater to this abomination. What is happening? Is this harmful to the fish and other corals to leave it?

Hello fellow reefers! I have a few colonies of zoas which are doing amazing but one particular zoa has been getting smaller rather than bigger despite other corals showing no signs of stress… change in lighting is due to the lens I’m using not the actual light. Bluer photo is before, whiter...

Hi there, I am having a bit of a panic! This week I lost my main tank to a failed seal. I have a temporary tank at the moment and was in the process of clearing out dead corals - not fun. I picked out what I thought was a leather frag and brown detritus instantly clouded the tank. I removed the...

Hey all! New to this forum… I have a mini colony of captain jerk zoas and it looks like one is stretching off of the plug? Pretty neat. Curious if this is “normal” or …. everything seems to be healthy. Ive had zoas/softies for about 6 months and this is the first time I’ve witnessed this! Happy...

About a week ago I bought a zoa frag from my LFS and it has yet to open. It was fully opened at the store but for some reason, I cant get it to open in my tank. This isn't my first time with Zoas but my first time having this problem. I've tried moving it to areas with differing amount of light...

I got a big rock of cheap zoas from a local fish store recently that I'm keeping in my quarantine for now but a chunk of the rock broke off so I put it in one of my tanks to see if my Toby puffer would nip at it. For the most part he's leaving it alone, but they just really don't look like...

Can anyone help with an ID on this? LFS lead wasn’t there, but they were sitting in the corner and looked pretty cool to me - reminds me of an old lightbulb filament. Color is an orange/red on a dark almost black background. Appreciate any help!

Good evening, So story goes I received this Zoa on Sept 15th, delayed in shipping a day. Looked pretty rough along with some other pricey zoas. Very stressed but gave aminos over the week it opened up a long with the others. Never looked quite right, few weeks ago it closed again. Looks to...

Can someone ID this zoa

I need help identifying some zoas. I managed to grow out two frags now but still don't know what they are or what they're worth. Each polyp is about the same diameter of a standard plastic straw. I've posted pictures in 2 big Facebook group chats but no exact ID yet. Any help is appreciated. I...

Hi, I have just been inspecting the tank after lights out and noticed that my scrambled egg zoa colony looks spiky. I'm sure it didn't look like this when we put them in, what could it be? (I know there's other little critters there but I'm looking at the spiky thing wrapped round the stalks)

I have 4 zoas and 3 of them are doing fine except one colony, each day that passes some of the polyp closes up, It was fine in the beginning. I’ve had them for about 1 month now. What can I do? can someone help identify the issue .

I bought a polyp variety pack and a kenyan tree at blue zoo aquatics. These are my first corals. My kenyan tree looks like it's dying. My zoas have not opened. They arrived on Wednesday and I used CoralRx then acclimated them over 45 minutes. I gave them coral food AB+ for the past two days...

What are your favorite Zoa combos. I am looking to set up a Zoa garden and I wanted to know what in your opinions are some of the best different Zoa combos between 2 or more different Zoas. Thank you!

Should my Zoas be so leggy?! Why are they like this??