Case of the missing zoa

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Lights just turned on in the tank and one of my Lotr zoas is missing. two heads on a plug and the only one opening is just...gone! don't see it floating around or anything. can a flow push them off maybe? it's on the sand of a 45 hex.
 
check in and around the liverock (assuming there is LR). They don' generally come loose on their own like mushrooms do. Could be that it came loose of the mount. But that would also seem odd if there were 2 there.

Like Chrisasked, are there any asterina starfish?
 
I haven't seen any astrina but there should be at least two in there. never messed with anything before and the plug is in the middle of 6 other plugs.
 
eh, if they were recently fragged that could be the case. mine wont stay on the plugs for very long. maybe if they had almost no flow and enough time to attach to the plug themselves i may wouldn't have lost so many lol
 
Yeah I've lost freshly flagged zoas due to flow as well. Alot of time I will add a little extra glue to the frags to try to reinforce the bond before throwing them in the tank. I also try to keep them in a lower flow area if possible until they completely take hold. I have seen zoas' rocking on the plugs back and forth and then a day later they are gone.
 
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