Zooanthids not opening

[outdrsyguy1]

I have some zooanthid polyps that were doing pretty well and multiplying but for the last few days they stopped opening. They are not the "deepwater" japanese type, just regular polyps from what I can tell. I did see a nudibranch in my tank and suspected them and did a coral dip just in case on all my polyps. Pulled out a fat nudibranch out of each of 3 different frags of polyps.

There were some white spots around the base of the polyp that I thought I read could be nudi eggs but when I scraped them with tweezers they didn't come off. It was like they were buried inside the polyp.

Anyone have any experience with this type of thing? or any ideas?
How many days should it take to be worried?

See pic below of before and after. It's the green polyps, the others are doing decent mostly.
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[ripped tide]

Whoa. Seems like a job for potassium permangenate.

 

[outdrsyguy1]

think i can pull it out and do a bath in Revive coral cleaner?
They only seem to be on the zooanthids. Any idea what these things are? are they living inside the tissue?
Will they go after my lps/sps?

Sorry, don't know anything about potassium permangenate treatment, i'll have to do some research on it.

 

[1mbrews8]

that doesnt look good... some kinda of eggs or worms or something..

 

[ripped tide]

Use the revive.

Put the coral in qt and dip every three days until the problem is gone.

 

[outdrsyguy1]

Yea, i found some info that makes it definitely look like zoapox. Furan 2 is said to work on it but I don't have any on hand right now. I'll try the revive dips and pick up some furan 2 this weekend if there's no improvement.

 

[jimmystephens]

. Dip them everyday for a week. Try agin to get those eggs scrapes off with a knife.

 

[ripped tide]

No experience with furan-2 and corals.

I've only used it on fish.

 

[jimmystephens]

Ive used coral dip by fussion i believe.

 

[jennm]

I have Furan-2. Lots of people use it for Zoa Pox. I believe there's a treatment protocol on Zoaid.com

http://www.zoaid.com/articles004.php">http://www.zoaid.com/articles004.php</a>

Jenn

 

[nathannano]

furan2 works great i had an issue 7-8 months ago with a few pieces and zoa pox. Dipped one week every day then a week off then one more week every other day. havent seen any since

 

[spike]

Like Jenn said if zoa pox use furan-2 follow directions on Zoaid.com. I have brought back many zoas, including Tubs Blue.