Help please help fuzzy stuff on my Zoas

[islandcreation]

I am away from my tank right now for almost two weeks now. My roomate was suppose to be looking over my tank, and my girlfriend went over there to check on it. She state my Zoas had some kind of brown/white fuzzy stuff covering the entire colony????? :anxious :cryinga: Is anyone familiar with this? She stated they are all closed with the fuzzy stuff on them. She also stated my other colony is partially closed to with a little fuzzy stuff on them. Please help...

 

[sadielynn]

With out picts it is hard to say...but very well could be is there an extra powerhead that she could place in to the tank and aim at them .......if not a turkey baster to blow them off?
do you have some extra water that she could do a partial change?
right now with out pics it is extremly hard to say but I would add an addtional power head and try to clear it from the zoas ....if it is brown jelly disease then there is little that can be done .Keep us posted

 

[djconn]

That fuzzy stuff is bad news I'm sorry to say. I don't know what exactly what the stuff is but I've seen it wipe out entire zoanthid colonies before. Its some kind of bacterial infection that speads quickly in zoos. It killed a whole bach of mine (on the same rock) before. Best thing to do is to pull it out of the tank and pull off as much of the stuff as you can. I used tweezers. Some of the zoos might make it.

 

[djconn]

I forgot to say that I'm just assuming that this was the same stuff I had in my tank so don't panic just yet. Like sadielynn stated, its sooo hard to tell without pics.

 

[leakyfaucet]

It sounds like you might have yourself a fungus problem. However, again it is difficult to confirm without a pic (i realize, and i apologize for kicking the dead horse into the ground). If fungus is the case, you may have no other recourse than to sacrifice the ones that are already infected. The thing with fungus infection is that what you see on the surface belies what may actually be a worse infestation underneath. The visibile signs of fungus that we often find (mold, spores, etc.) are often worse underneath where the actual organism lives. The nice thing about this problem is that fungus can be aggressively treated with a peroxide dip. Use a 20% solution made from standard 3% concentration of OTC H202. From what i've read, Zoas are fortunately very resilient and may respond well to this treatment. The recommendation has been 80% water change followed with the 20% dip for 10 mins. If no improvement within a couple of days, do a fresh water dip with RO water with 4 drops FWE exit/gallon and 2 drops lugols/gallon for five mins. If you need further information, here is my source:
http://www.dfwmas.org/Forums/viewtopic. ... 24bae2256a

hope that helps!

 

[djconn]

Good info leaky!