petlandksaw
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They have a flat shell with a kind of speckled black and white pattern, I pulled a couple off of some fresh zoa frags i recently placed in my tank.
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if the asterna gets on them for a few hours it will eat a fraction of the zoa/paly. The only thing left will be a torn up foot or nothing depending on the size of the zoa/paly. but yeah, the zoa closes up from irritation and then gets eaten while it's closed.
Mine close up. Then sometimes they will half come out. The skirts look ragged, looks like half a head is eaten. They will sometimes look like nothing but a mouth with a puff of skirt on one side. I will try to get some pictures in the next few days (working nights sucks).
Rit, I did add GFO and Carbon. You may be right on it. I may have not rinsed the GFO good enough and my LOTR zoas were kinda in a low flow area. They are the worst. Sucks because they are really pretty. When my order from marinedepot comes in, I will trat the zoas in my 10gal and hopefully they will be ok. speaking of which, I need to make enough fresh salt water to fill the 10 gal.
The Asterna stars have been seen on my zoa frags before. I do have the harliquin shrimp in there now and when I can, I pull them out by hand.
The Asterna stars have been seen on my zoa frags before. I do have the harliquin shrimp in there now and when I can, I pull them out by hand.
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I'd like to have a harlequin for a bit but, I know it's one of those things I couldn't maintain. Again, I motion for a Harlequin time share, anyone with this temporary problem, we buy a harlequin together and trade it between tanks until we are asterina free then, whoever has the resources can keep it in the end.
I read they only eat the suction cups, would it be a danger to my cucumber?
I read they only eat the suction cups, would it be a danger to my cucumber?
I pulled the frag plug they are on off of the rock and placed them on my frag rack. Today I bought a small 2.5 gal tank and when my FURAN-2 gets in, I will be placing all the zoas I can in there for a dip.
IamRit;473623 wrote: Sometimes mine does that too but I don't see any stars near them. I always thought something in the water that causing the problem, low mag or strongtium, maybe?
So your paly were perfectly fine before the Asterina got on them. They looked as you decribed after the Asterina layed on top of them?
I will investigate. I need to find this out since I have lots of zoa and many more are comming. Don't want to lose any zoa if I can help it.
I'm going to catch a few blue and grey Aterina and drop them on my Purple Hornets.j/k I'm going to test out a few small patch of zoas. We'll see.
there you go Rit, take one for the team.
Has anyone had any luck using FURAN-2 to cure ZoaPox???
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