Multiple zoa frags suddenly dying or really sick

[Just John]

All water parameters test fine. Ammonia is 0. This may be the problem, but I don't know - I have a sample of Polyp Booster from a coral order I got a couple of months ago. I feed my zoas frequently. For the first time this morning I gave some of them the Polyp Booster sample. Now most are all crumpled looking. Some quite bad. One of them is a Paly that now has a grey patch on it. Looks like it might be rotting (?). The other head on that frag is similar. Could the sample have gone bad and done this? It didn't smell at all.
Sorry about the poor cell phone photos.



Grey patch is on the bottom with the red bubble (maybe old food being ejected?)

 

[Aldrinlights]

It just looks like it's closing up to me. Doesn't look rotten. Have you checked your iodide levels?

 

[Just John]

No I have never checked them. That grey area used to be the same color as the purple/brown above. It is spreading/getting larger on the other polyp. It's definitely new today.

 

[Just John]

Any thoughts @brandon429?

 

[vetteguy53081]

I feed polyp booster and they do this when they take it in. I do broadcast feed and not direct feed them with this. It may have been too much for them, but dont see why they wont bounce back

 

[Just John]

I feed polyp booster and they do this when they take it in. I do broadcast feed and not direct feed them with this. It may have been too much for them, but dont see why they wont bounce back

Why do you think they have a grey patch spreading across them"

 

[vetteguy53081]

Polyp lab is very milky as you noticed and contains pigments and aminos and the high pigment content im sure caused this
They call for iml per SIXTY gallons. . . and i'll bet you probably gave them close to a m/l

 

[Just John]

Polyp lab is very milky as you noticed and contains pigments and aminos and the high pigment content im sure caused this
They call for iml per SIXTY gallons. . . and i'll bet you probably gave them close to a m/l

Not that much. Just spot fed a little dribble. Enough to cover part of the top. They always eat everything I give them.

 

[Just John]

Thanks for the help guys! I'll let you know what happens.

 

[Just John]

I just realized that I never updated this. The polyps that I had fed the Poly Booster sample to either died or remained closed for over a week. When they opened, most either had colors that looked smeared, similar to the picture above, and a couple had changed to totally different colors. Here is a zoa before and after. My phone camera does a very poor job of capturing the colors in the second picture. It is now a really bright bubblegum pink with an bright pastel green skirt. Oddly, the babies that have grown since then are also the same bright pink and green. It is beautiful, but does not look at all the same.