Do Zoa/Paly commit tank wide chemical warfare?

[chaostactics]

I've noticed lately that increasingly some varieties of my zoa/paly are shrinking/staying closed/dying off?

I usually split up frags and colonies when I get them and put them at different heights/flow to see which they like better and spread out color.

So no matter where they are in the tank certain morphs are dying off while most are doing fine.

I'm wondering if there's some tank wide chemical warfare going on? Would chemo pure help?

pH, Mag, Ca, and Alk are all WNL

 

[Reefing_addiction]

I’ve lost zoas for no reason.

And I have plenty.

Some zoas just die

I don’t think it’s chemical warfare

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Racks on both end are all zoas with three Zoa rocks in tank

 

[chaostactics]

I’ve lost zoas for no reason.

And I have plenty.

Some zoas just die

I don’t think it’s chemical warfare

It's just weird because they'd been fine for months and months and it's the same morphs dying and they're a foot and a half apart different flow and different heights (lightning) in the tank.

 

[CherryCorals]

I’ve lost zoas for no reason.

And I have plenty.

Some zoas just die

I don’t think it’s chemical warfare

This is a fact!

 

[Steelheader09]

Zoas seem fickle sometimes. I have some that spread like wildfire. Others just exist. Some just disapear. I started running my zoa tank "dirtier" and they actually seem to be doing better

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Zoas seem fickle sometimes. I have some that spread like wildfire. Others just exist. Some just disapear. I started running my zoa tank "dirtier" and they actually seem to be doing better

This.

Most seem to like dirty water lol

 

[Reefing_addiction]

It's just weird because they'd been fine for months and months and it's the same morphs dying and they're a foot and a half apart different flow and different heights (lightning) in the tank.

I have had zoas spread and then die only to come back they are weirdos.

If any tissue is left they may come back

 

[Timfish]

Chemical warfare and biological warfare. Also, immune systems likely vary significantly at the genotype level. There si so much we don't know and can't test for so the above comments "Some just die" is pretty accurate pretty much across the board.

 

[Steelheader09]

I have had zoas spread and then die only to come back they are weirdos.

If any tissue is left they may come back

I was running near 0 nitrates and Phosphates for a long time. Had a couple colonies die, and have 1 single Rasta just sit there. Tried switching to a better light, feeding aminos, changing salt, nothing. One day said im done doing water changes and I am gonna feed heavy. Within a month, my Blue hornets took off and my rasta has grown a 2nd polyp after sitting by itself for over a year.

 

[anthonygf]

Racks on both end are all zoas with three Zoa rocks in tank

Buddy! Looks like you have a problem. Planning on getting another tank started? Very nice, you have so little to no algae.

 

[Screwgunner]

Do you dose amino acids.

 

[chaostactics]

Do you dose amino acids.

I do when I remember

 

[Townes_Van_Camp]

I do when I remember

That reminds me of me. I do my wc’s so religiously I have to stop myself from doing them. I strip my tank of nutrients.
But with aminos and reef chili, just whenever I happen to pick them up.