Is my Rasta dead?

[oKrazyii]

So I just bought this Rasta polyp yesterday, it was fully open and fine in my lfs tank when I got em, I got it home, and ever since dipping it it’s been completely closed up like this, my emerald crab even knocked it off its rock and either ripped a piece off or just detached a bit of it from the frag plug, and that was maybe roughly 3 hrs ago. Is it possible for the Zoa to come back from this? Or is it a lost cause? If it is possible is there anything specific I should be doing? All my other corals are doing fine idk if it was something with the dip (even though I used the same dip on all my other corals) or if I shook it around too much during dipping maybe? Just worried that it’s a goner

 

[CoralB]

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[oKrazyii]

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[CoralB]

Give it a little time but yah I’d say it’s probably toast .

 

[logibear]

Can’t say for sure BUT I had 3 Rasta heads fall off a rock for about a month. Thought they had just melted away and then one day saw some green in the sand and dug them out and reattached them and they are now better than ever. Weirder things have happened

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

someone sold you 1 polyp? I’ll give you a zoa frag for 5 bucks

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

So I just bought this Rasta polyp yesterday, it was fully open and fine in my lfs tank when I got em, I got it home, and ever since dipping it it’s been completely closed up like this, my emerald crab even knocked it off its rock and either ripped a piece off or just detached a bit of it from the frag plug, and that was maybe roughly 3 hrs ago. Is it possible for the Zoa to come back from this? Or is it a lost cause? If it is possible is there anything specific I should be doing? All my other corals are doing fine idk if it was something with the dip (even though I used the same dip on all my other corals) or if I shook it around too much during dipping maybe? Just worried that it’s a goner

it’s not the dip. I dip zoas in pure peroxide and they never die. Some zoas just dolt like certain tanks. Give it a few days or even weeks. If it’s not melted, it has a chance.

 

[oKrazyii]

it’s not the dip. I dip zoas in pure peroxide and they never die. Some zoas just dolt like certain tanks. Give it a few days or even weeks. If it’s not melted, it has a chance.

yeah im gunna leave it until it melts regardless, it just confused me cause almost right after being added to the dip it sucked itself up like that

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

how old is the tank?

 

[oKrazyii]

how old is the tank?

Roughly 5 months, I got 4 other frags for free off a friend and they’ve been doing good so I decided to grab this Rasta polyp because my lfs was having a little deal on them. I’m waiting to go all in on coral until I get the Hanna tests and decide what additives and food I want to stick with

 

[ThisIsTheWay]

I have some everlasting gobstoppers that shrank so far they didn’t even have heads, just a blob of body. I finally moved it to a different tank and it has been slowly recovering and growing a new head.
All that to say, zoas can be very resilient and as long as you have good water parameters it should bounce back :)

 

[jermzisurmom]

Blow on it with turkey baster, and don't move it....

 

[oKrazyii]

Blow on it with turkey baster, and don't move it....

Just did this, I tried target feeding it a little bit, I’m not sure if they can eat when they’re all sucked up like that but figured it wouldn’t hurt to try

 

[oKrazyii]

someone sold you 1 polyp? I’ll give you a zoa frag for 5 bucks

If you were in upstate ny I’d take that deal in an instant

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

If you were in upstate ny I’d take that deal in an instant

if i ever drive up to newcomb and you’re on the way, ill hook ya up