ZOA HELP

[TitusStar]

Hey y’all I need help discovering what these two creatures or things are on my Zoa. I bought this guy yesterday and I see A) a little white beige extension and B) little orange like tentacles.
i captured a video of both and will post screenshots of each!
Thoughts?
Thank you

 

[TitusStar]

Hey y’all I need help discovering what these two creatures or things are on my Zoa. I bought this guy yesterday and I see A) a little white beige extension and B) little orange like tentacles.
i captured a video of both and will post screenshots of each!
Thoughts?
Thank you

 

[ChinoAquatics]

The tentacles are aiptasia as for the white thing i cant really make it out you can remove it with some tweezers. Quick and cheap fix for the aiptasia is to just make it retract by irritating it and then sealing it with some super glue.

 

[BaliReefBox]

is the tube made of sand or encrusted? If it is sand kind glued together i would be pulling it out from my recent experience, it had a nasty black worm with hellish pinchers

 

[TitusStar]

The tentacles are aiptasia as for the white thing i cant really make it out you can remove it with some tweezers. Quick and cheap fix for the aiptasia is to just make it retract by irritating it and then sealing it with some super glue.

Any idea what this can be? Is it a clam? It is hard

 

[ChinoAquatics]

Any idea what this can be? Is it a clam? It is hard

Im not sure , that will be dope tho , take a hammer and chisel to the rock and find out eagle eye zoas are pretty hardy.

 

[strawberryfish]

Any idea what this can be? Is it a clam? It is hard

I'm fairly sure it's a clam/mollusk of some sort I have a Frag I got recently that very prominently display what I believe to be that same species as this and he's been happily filtering my water. He just closed up cause I had to turn the daytime spectrum on to take this.

 

[TitusStar]

Im not sure , that will be dope tho , take a hammer and chisel to the rock and find out eagle eye zoas are pretty hardy.

Would you recommend me splitting this in half and kill the clam?

 

[strawberryfish]

Would you recommend me splitting this in half and kill the clam?

I wouldn't but to each their own.

 

[ChinoAquatics]

Would you recommend me splitting this in half and kill the clam?

You can remove it if you prefer to , but it’s probably reef safe and helps filter the water column so there’s no need

 

[TitusStar]

I'm fairly sure it's a clam/mollusk of some sort I have a Frag I got recently that very prominently display what I believe to be that same species as this and he's been happily filtering my water. He just closed up cause I had to turn the daytime spectrum on to take this.

Right now my Zoa is lodged between two rocks on the plug still would it be better on the sand bed or just let it over from the frag plug over time

 

[ChinoAquatics]

Right now my Zoa is lodged between two rocks on the plug still would it be better on the sand bed or just let it over from the frag plug over time

If you want it on the rock then just snip the bottom of the plug and glue it to the rock , sandbed is fine to just stick it in

 

[TitusStar]

If you want it on the rock then just snip the bottom of the plug and glue it to the rock , sandbed is fine to just stick it in

If I leave it in the sand bed can I get different zoas and try to make a garden of them?

 

[ChinoAquatics]

If I leave it in the sand bed can I get different zoas and try to make a garden of them?

Hey sorry been really sick this week. I like to just plug them in the sandbed or use a little tub filled with aquarium gravel (tiny pebbles zoas can attach onto) when I’m experimenting with layouts and color contrast. When I’m ready to make a permanent garden I transfer frags onto a rock and snip as much of the plugs as I can.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Pics are very dark with blue lighting and mid photo is a bi-valve which is common amongst wild caught zoa and is a reef safe filter feeder although short lived. Its not a clam as many call it
Need pics under white lighting to confirm what others are