I have a few Zoas frags that are not doing so well. Not opening and slowly melting. Over the past year I've been able to save some from melting or from getting choked out by algae.
I'd love to hear some other people's process in rehabbing a zoa or paly. Things that worked. Things that didn't.
Specifically the zoa I'm having trouble with is my LSOH. I bought it April or May with 3 polyps. Its up to 4 now and over the last week+ not doing well at all. Beside it on the same moveable rock is a colony of Yoda's. They too were rough. Same symptoms. Coral rx dip, moved to higher light higher flow. That didn't help moved to lower flow lower light and yodas bounced back but not the LSOH.
I've tried gentle and not so gentle pipetting and soft paint brush to remove irritant.
Original irritant was most likely a form of dino outbreak, which has subsided. I can't physically see anything bothering it anymore. What would you try?
It's a small rock with just the 2 colonies. The Yoda's could easily be removed if treatment may harm them.
I'd love to hear some other people's process in rehabbing a zoa or paly. Things that worked. Things that didn't.
Specifically the zoa I'm having trouble with is my LSOH. I bought it April or May with 3 polyps. Its up to 4 now and over the last week+ not doing well at all. Beside it on the same moveable rock is a colony of Yoda's. They too were rough. Same symptoms. Coral rx dip, moved to higher light higher flow. That didn't help moved to lower flow lower light and yodas bounced back but not the LSOH.
I've tried gentle and not so gentle pipetting and soft paint brush to remove irritant.
Original irritant was most likely a form of dino outbreak, which has subsided. I can't physically see anything bothering it anymore. What would you try?
It's a small rock with just the 2 colonies. The Yoda's could easily be removed if treatment may harm them.