Hi guys,
I just joined ARC, but have been lurking in the hobby for about 2+ years
. I'm curious if anyone else had ever had a problem with them. Recently, I purchased a few frags of zoas. The zoas started opening up fairly quickly on the first day, but on day 2, my Fire and Ice zoas started to not open up completely. On day 3, even less. After about a week I was really getting worried about my Fire and Ice polyps. I was getting almost zero polyp extension. I kept seeing amphipods all throughout day getting onto of the frag plug and possibly eating or annoying the zoas. While I was doing a bit of research, I read about a guy, who was having a similar issue: his zoas weren't opening and he kept seeing amphipods crawling on top of them. He decided to put his frag on top of a shot glass. This, for some reason, deterred the amphipods enough to where they stopped getting on top of the frag. Amazingly enough, the zoas started opening back up. After reading this, I tried something similar. I took a plastic bottle and drilled some holes into it for my zoa frags (no egg crate). I then used a mag float to place the bottle a bit off the sand bed. It's been one day, and 4 of my Fire and Ice Polyps are opening, almost completely. The other zoa frags, which were doing okay, have started looking better too. To be clear, the flow and lighting haven't really changed much as a result of the "frag rack." Has anyone else encountered this?
I had a huge population of amphipods build up because of a lack of tank husbandry and no natural predators in my tank. For the past 4-5 months, I've been really keeping up with my tank. Doing usually water changes as well as siphoning out detritus. I think they're now starving and looking for anything to eat.
-Roshan
I just joined ARC, but have been lurking in the hobby for about 2+ years
. I'm curious if anyone else had ever had a problem with them. Recently, I purchased a few frags of zoas. The zoas started opening up fairly quickly on the first day, but on day 2, my Fire and Ice zoas started to not open up completely. On day 3, even less. After about a week I was really getting worried about my Fire and Ice polyps. I was getting almost zero polyp extension. I kept seeing amphipods all throughout day getting onto of the frag plug and possibly eating or annoying the zoas. While I was doing a bit of research, I read about a guy, who was having a similar issue: his zoas weren't opening and he kept seeing amphipods crawling on top of them. He decided to put his frag on top of a shot glass. This, for some reason, deterred the amphipods enough to where they stopped getting on top of the frag. Amazingly enough, the zoas started opening back up. After reading this, I tried something similar. I took a plastic bottle and drilled some holes into it for my zoa frags (no egg crate). I then used a mag float to place the bottle a bit off the sand bed. It's been one day, and 4 of my Fire and Ice Polyps are opening, almost completely. The other zoa frags, which were doing okay, have started looking better too. To be clear, the flow and lighting haven't really changed much as a result of the "frag rack." Has anyone else encountered this?I had a huge population of amphipods build up because of a lack of tank husbandry and no natural predators in my tank. For the past 4-5 months, I've been really keeping up with my tank. Doing usually water changes as well as siphoning out detritus. I think they're now starving and looking for anything to eat.
-Roshan
