reefermadness707
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Night after night for the past couple of days I noticed a couple more heads are missing every night. Nooooooooooooooo my eagle eyes.
Zoas disappearing
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reefermadness707
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I have only been in the hobby now for 7 months,my parameters are good I have a 37 gallon bowfront with one 250 watt mh and I use a hexarc blue bulb thats almost three months old now.
I run my lights 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
No fish just inverts and corals
One Skunk cleaner shrimp
RBTA, alot of softies/lps
couple red leg hermits
nassarius snails,cerith snails,nerite snails,turbos,one leapord nassarius,sand sifting star that im trying to get rid of.
I was wondering if there was some type of worm or critter that was living inside the live rock and coming out at night but ive looked over and over again and never see anything but bristle worms
I run my lights 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
No fish just inverts and corals
One Skunk cleaner shrimp
RBTA, alot of softies/lps
couple red leg hermits
nassarius snails,cerith snails,nerite snails,turbos,one leapord nassarius,sand sifting star that im trying to get rid of.
I was wondering if there was some type of worm or critter that was living inside the live rock and coming out at night but ive looked over and over again and never see anything but bristle worms
Not_Now_John
Guest
That first one has always creeped me out.
rygh
Guest
Not sure, but my guess is that the colony is slowly dying, and as each one dies, your
hermits and shrimp move in and eat the dead ones at night.
It can make it look like sudden disappearance when the root cause is
really a slower process.
No idea on cause. Zoa Pox maybe. Pests. Look online.
Could be water parameters. You say they are good, but no details there.
Or just one of those things. Zoa colonies sometimes just die it seems.
A suggestion would be to pop them out and do a weak hydrogen peroxide dip.
I believe there is a good thread on that on bareefers site.
hermits and shrimp move in and eat the dead ones at night.
It can make it look like sudden disappearance when the root cause is
really a slower process.
No idea on cause. Zoa Pox maybe. Pests. Look online.
Could be water parameters. You say they are good, but no details there.
Or just one of those things. Zoa colonies sometimes just die it seems.
A suggestion would be to pop them out and do a weak hydrogen peroxide dip.
I believe there is a good thread on that on bareefers site.
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reefermadness707
Guest
What i thought were bristle worms were actually fire worms.Did not know the difference before.
Benaminh
Guest
My vote is for the black Eunicid worm that Charles posted links to. I had one in a tank once and finally saw it eating my zoo polyps at night. Ugly creepy thing, couldn't get it out from the live rock and had to eventually dismantle the tank. You can try removing one live rock at a time and leaving it in a bucket overnight to isolate the critter, but it's no guarantee. I rank that worm & a hitchhiker mantis shrimp as part of my top ten worst reefing experiences. Good luck.