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Hi All,
I see some posts on this subject but haven't seen any real answers or a lot of good photos or videos. Other posts have claimed these are copepods and they are beneficial, LOL. Don't worry about it! But I can say they are pests for sure and are harmful to zoanthids. Hoping this helps the community and maybe gets people some answers in the process. So I have a 30-gallon quarantine tank set up for new corals. In it, I have about 10-12 new zoas /palys and some zoa frags that I have been fragging from my main display. So I decided to get some high-end zoas from a random online supplier out of Georgia. And boy was it a mistake. I did a coral RX dip when they first arrived and it knocked off some black copepod-like creatures. But the dip wasn't really killing them. I didn't really think much of it as dips usually knock off/kill copepods and amphipods. I noticed that the psychosis and frankies acid trip were not opening after shipment. Then the grand master Krakatoa were closing up. So I dipped them again, and wow, the population had exploded. See the photos and videos below. Now the Rasta zoas and the everlasting gobstoppers are also closed up and not opening during the day. Punk rockers appear to be fine but also loaded with bugs. AKA a full-blown infestation. Hoping someone can help me ID them.
Did anyone beat these guys before? They really tick off the zoas into not opening up. Seems some species are fine. But some like GMK, rastas, gobstoppers, AOI all seem crazy affected. Palys...don't seem to care from my short experience with them. They did kill my Frankies acid trip and I am really worried about the psychosis as it hasn't opened in a week since I got it. I think I now need to continuously dip everything in my QT tanks every other day till they are gone.
Any help with an ID would be appreciated. They are fast! Run all over the plug and zoas. When they first arrived, the first dip knocked off black ones but in the recent dip, they also appeared reddish/brown in color. I assume these are younger ones.
Suggested treatment? Just coral RX and lugols dips? Has anyone tried Bayer or interceptor on Zoas? Please only suggestions that people have tried and had success with. I would like to have accurate and good information for all the reefers that read this post and are suffering from the same issue.
The moral of the store....buy your zoas from a reputable source. I never had issues from the large online vendors. The TSA, WWC, Austin aqua farms of the web never disappoint. Would have been worth the extra money to not deal with these nasty little bugs.
Thanks
All the Best,
James
I see some posts on this subject but haven't seen any real answers or a lot of good photos or videos. Other posts have claimed these are copepods and they are beneficial, LOL. Don't worry about it! But I can say they are pests for sure and are harmful to zoanthids. Hoping this helps the community and maybe gets people some answers in the process. So I have a 30-gallon quarantine tank set up for new corals. In it, I have about 10-12 new zoas /palys and some zoa frags that I have been fragging from my main display. So I decided to get some high-end zoas from a random online supplier out of Georgia. And boy was it a mistake. I did a coral RX dip when they first arrived and it knocked off some black copepod-like creatures. But the dip wasn't really killing them. I didn't really think much of it as dips usually knock off/kill copepods and amphipods. I noticed that the psychosis and frankies acid trip were not opening after shipment. Then the grand master Krakatoa were closing up. So I dipped them again, and wow, the population had exploded. See the photos and videos below. Now the Rasta zoas and the everlasting gobstoppers are also closed up and not opening during the day. Punk rockers appear to be fine but also loaded with bugs. AKA a full-blown infestation. Hoping someone can help me ID them.
Did anyone beat these guys before? They really tick off the zoas into not opening up. Seems some species are fine. But some like GMK, rastas, gobstoppers, AOI all seem crazy affected. Palys...don't seem to care from my short experience with them. They did kill my Frankies acid trip and I am really worried about the psychosis as it hasn't opened in a week since I got it. I think I now need to continuously dip everything in my QT tanks every other day till they are gone.
Any help with an ID would be appreciated. They are fast! Run all over the plug and zoas. When they first arrived, the first dip knocked off black ones but in the recent dip, they also appeared reddish/brown in color. I assume these are younger ones.
Suggested treatment? Just coral RX and lugols dips? Has anyone tried Bayer or interceptor on Zoas? Please only suggestions that people have tried and had success with. I would like to have accurate and good information for all the reefers that read this post and are suffering from the same issue.
The moral of the store....buy your zoas from a reputable source. I never had issues from the large online vendors. The TSA, WWC, Austin aqua farms of the web never disappoint. Would have been worth the extra money to not deal with these nasty little bugs.
Thanks
All the Best,
James