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Melting Paly Frags

Euphyllia

Euphyllia

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My AOG, PPE, and one of the new palys that I got are starting to "melt". The oral disc is becoming splotchy white. It started with my AOG, which haven't opened for 2 weeks. They are just starting to open, but there is brown stuff coming out of them and they look white in some areas. The PPE just started to turn splotchy 2 days ago, and it turned them ugly very fast. They still open, but they are splotchy white. I got a new frag of Mohawk palys over the weekend and from the second day on only 1 would open. They are all open now, but two of the small polyps look like 3 or 4 of the tentacles are melting off. There are at least 25 other zoanthid colonies in the tank and they all seem fine.
 
do you think this is related to the other various coral and invert issues you have had

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Something's really wrong in your tank if so many different things are melting and having problems.

I really think you should stop adding any critters to your tank, and be very systematic in getting things stabilized.
 
what are your current water perameters?

are these new corals to the tank? where is there placement, sometimes too high of lighting too quick can kill off zooanthealgae and cause death or bleaching of corals, I know zoa's are pretty hardy, any flatworms on them?

just my thoughts
 
No flatworms. They have all been dipped. The AOG and the PPE came in 2 months ago, the PPE were in the lower part of the tank and the AOG were up higher. Both previously under 150w+ MH.
 
eastbayreefer2010 said:
zooanthealgae
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Never seen someone miss spell it like that before :) (I'm a word butcher as well)

zooxanthellae
 
I was moving my frogspawn from my 34 to my 14 and while it was in the bowl a littl white bug thing ran off. Tow a nudi and not a flat worm. It is white, round, and has a brown/black "x" mark on the back or front part of its back. Very small, maybe 1mm or less. :tired:
What do you think it is? Too small for a picture.
 
look like a "rolly polly" (pillbug)? Most likely an amphipod.
 
1mm is not that hard to see. You can't see absolute detail but it can be seen by the naked eye. I can see 50µm (1000µm = 1mm)
 
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