Help- Zoas melting

[bues0022]

My zoanthids just took a bid turn for the worst. A couple days ago I noticed a few polyps closed constantly. Then tonight I came home from work to find a bunch closed, some completely melted away, others just a little white nub where it was open two days ago. One or two had a brown fuzz on them - but it could have been cyano. 

 

Whats going on? Oh, and I leave out of the country for two weeks on Saturday ?. 

 

Is this a fungus issue? I’ve never had a zoa crash this fast before. I’m thinking a dip is in order (at least the ones I can peel out of the tank/rock). I pretty much have one shot to dip tomorrow evening - what should I do? Furan 2, HP/iodine?

 

[bues0022]

[bues0022]

[ImGoingCoastal]

Have you checked your parameters? Im sure those will be helpful.


-A-a-ron

[bues0022]

I don't know. I don't typically test my water (hold the mob and pitchforks back  ). I'm not entirely sure what, if anything, my course of treatment would be different if I tested or not. I do about a 20%-25% water change every weekend. I know I have a little cyano, but nothing terrible, so some nutrients are obviously elevated. However, everything else in the tank for fish/corals are doing great, just a recent outbreak with my corals. I'm leaving tomorrow for two weeks, so I have one shot to try to do a dip to "fix" this. I'm trying to figure out if it might be fungal (so I should do something like a Furan 2 dip), or if I should do my more "standard" zoa dip (first an HP solution, with a rinse off in lugols).

 

I realize some of the polyps in the images just looked closed, but something's not right with them. Right in the middle of the Rasta colony, the white dot was an open polyp two days ago. Last night it was almost looking rotten. If you look at the center of that colony, there are three open polyps looking like "Orion's belt"...just above the right-most one, that polyp looks aweful, and is "typical" of what I've seen happen. Skirt disappears into a whitish film, center almost looks rotten, then it turns fully into a little white dot, then completely gone.

[bues0022]

I'm looking online, watching videos, looking at other pictures, and I'm thinking that perhaps that observations that I'm calling "symptoms" might actually be the "side effects". the closing/rotting/melting polyps might be due to zoapox?? The images below are from a video I found talking about zoapox - I circled in red what my polyps also look like during the beginning.

 

 

 

 

Edited May 10, 2019 by bues0022