Zoa pox? If so, updated dip treatment?

[Hunna’s Stunnas]

Recently acquired these all from the same person, for a great price. They are currently in a little 5g by themselves until I figure out what is on them. If this is zoa pox, what’s the updated dip treatment since furan 2 isn’t really available anymore?

 

[ColorMeGone]

I'd try a peroxide dip and see what happens.

 

[ShanePike]

Here's what Tidal Gardens says:

In the past, what we would use to treat Zoa Pox would be to use a fish medication called Furan-2, and it worked for the most part. However, from what I hear these days, Furan-2 isn’t really being sold or manufactured, or maybe it’s just banned outright for some odd reason. So if this isn’t something you already have in your arsenal, there’s a few other ways to combat Zoa Pox. One way is to take some stainless steel wood carving tools and individually “pop” those zits and then just rinse them away. As long as you keep those zoas clean going forward, you won’t have another issue with Zoa Pox.

Another thing you can do if you aren’t comfortable doing dips and/or don’t want to go about popping all those little zits, you could just eliminate the root cause of the pox and just blast your Zoanthids with flow to dislodge all that irritating detritus. After doing that, over time the coral will probably be fine, it’s very uncommon for Zoa Pox to actually kill an entire colony of zoas.

I would see if you can pop the little spots. If you can't, it would seem to be something other than pox.

 

[littlebigreef]

Looks like an early infection to me.

You can buy nitrofurazone (the core component of furan-2) independently. Dipping directions are the same, just make sure to rinse off the plug before returning to the tank.

 

[weemanno1]

i have the early signs of this also i think.. how would you treat them in the tank or do i need to remove the infected zoas.. i have a rock i can pull away from another but i have 2 or 3 little colonies that have re attached to main rock work.( do i need to remove these all together?. Is there a procedure for a newbie..? :)