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I have a zoa frag that was doing good and had new polyps until about 3ish weeks ago.
At first some of polyps were closing for short time, but then more and more of them stayed closed for longer periods of time. Now they been closed for a while if not permanently...
I think my water parameters are within norm, so the only other thing that I can think of is pods. I have a lot of them it, on rocks sand, and glass when light is shut off.
This is the video of my zoa frag, as you can see there are a lot of them.
Do you think these pods are making my zoas close or even die? What would be solution? I am thinking mandarin, but everywhere I read tank has to be over a year old before I can get it...
I keep water at 1.026 salinity and temp around 78F, tank is about 6 month old, below are parameters over last 4 weeks.
Jul 27 Aug 3 Aug 11 Aug 17
Phosphate 0.08 0.02 0.04 0.08
Nitrate 0.0 0.0 0.25 2.0
Alk 9.6 8.54 8.4 8.4
Ca 450 455 460 450
MG 1280 1500 1480 1440
Water change were done on July 27th, and 3rd of August. I decided to take longer between water changes to let Nitrates go up. Also got 4 more fish on Wednesday, hope this will make Nitrates go up.
At first some of polyps were closing for short time, but then more and more of them stayed closed for longer periods of time. Now they been closed for a while if not permanently...
I think my water parameters are within norm, so the only other thing that I can think of is pods. I have a lot of them it, on rocks sand, and glass when light is shut off.
This is the video of my zoa frag, as you can see there are a lot of them.
Do you think these pods are making my zoas close or even die? What would be solution? I am thinking mandarin, but everywhere I read tank has to be over a year old before I can get it...
I keep water at 1.026 salinity and temp around 78F, tank is about 6 month old, below are parameters over last 4 weeks.
Jul 27 Aug 3 Aug 11 Aug 17
Phosphate 0.08 0.02 0.04 0.08
Nitrate 0.0 0.0 0.25 2.0
Alk 9.6 8.54 8.4 8.4
Ca 450 455 460 450
MG 1280 1500 1480 1440
Water change were done on July 27th, and 3rd of August. I decided to take longer between water changes to let Nitrates go up. Also got 4 more fish on Wednesday, hope this will make Nitrates go up.