Tiny Creature Affecting ZoasM

[Omarcrown]

Recently ive started noticing some of my Palys and Zoanthids becoming irritated and changing shape. For example this milky way Paly used to extend and is now flattened at the base and doesnt seem to close anymore. This morning i noticed these tiny creatures crawling on it but no where else and was wondering if they were the cause or if anyone had any ideas.

Having the same issue with my stratosphere, and WWC purple monsters and some others where only a head or two looks upset while the rest bloom well during the day. The pictures were taken at night.

Parameters
Salinity 1.025
Calcium 420ppm
Magnesium 1400ppm
Phosphate .2ppm
Nitrates 0-5ppm
Alk 8-9
40 gallon tank
My only changes recently are that I added 2 turbo snails to help with an algea problem that was forming and I recently started filtering my own RO water but i have a TDS meter. And been using the water for about a month now. And the effects seem to be localized to a head or two per frag colony. For example that's the only Milky Paly that seems upset on the entire frag and it continues to pop out new heads elsewhere.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

The zoa's are melting, IMO this is more tied to low light. What kind of light do you have and what intensity?

 

[Omarcrown]

The zoa's are melting, IMO this is more tied to low light. What kind of light do you have and what intensity?

Thank you for your help.

I run a 140w Smatfarm light and a 60w for 10 hours. First 5 are at 24% Whites and 80% blue, Uv, 20% red and greens.

5 hours in i swap over to full blues at 100% for coloration and it weens off over the 5 hours.

I have a 2nd galaxy frag that doesnt seem to be melting the same way as this one is. And this one also has popped a head or two recently.

Should I dip the coral in iodine?

I'll try moving the Milky way to higher light but the stratosphere head that is struggling is around midway up the tank pretty close to being directly under one of the lights but not getting beamed either. It has 2 heads and one is looking healthy and well while the other is looking really rough.

 

[Tradevg]

No3 seems a bit low relative to Po4 but others here know far more. Watching.

 

[Omarcrown]

No3 seems a bit low relative to Po4 but others here know far more. Watching.

Thank you for your help. I did just do a pretty fat water change since I am big on feeding so my Phosphates have always been higher than my nitrates.

 

[Omarcrown]

The head died but I fragged the dying one in time to save the smaller ones so it wasn't a total loss :)

 

[Tahoe61]

Is it Zoanthid Pox time of year?

 

[Omarcrown]

Is it Zoanthid Pox time of year?

Hoenslty yeah i have a 2-3 frags struggling a little right now, any tips ?

 

[rayadog]

I can’t make out much more than the head of something. I’m inclined to say it just looks like an amphipod. I feel like I’ve seen on here that sometimes they do damage but I also have bad memory; or was that worms? Would be surprised if that was the case. So … I got nothing more than that sorry.