White spots on PE and zoas.

[kool-cat]

Can someone post a picture of what PE look like when they are exposed to too much light? Those white spots that appear on the oral disk of the PE. I have 3 RPE's and they have white spots growing on their oral disk flower part. I gave them a fresh water dip 1 day, another day I dipped them in iodine for 10 minutes(6 drops, 2 gallons) then the next day i gave them another 16 drop iodine dip for 15 minutes in about 2 gallons aquarium water. I thought it was some sort of bacteria like zoa pox, but now I am not sure. The zoas that I also purchased a week ago also have white spots except they appear more cottony then my PE. The white spots on my PE look a little different from the ones on my zoas, and they are located on the oral disk. After the dip my RPE are hardly opening and my zoas released some sort of round poop glob that clouded my water yesterday night. I got the RPE 2 weeks ago and I got the Zoas 1 week ago from the same pet shop.

My light is 150watt de mh 14k Phoenix and I have 1 layer of screening when I run my mh for 6-7 hours a day. I have since reduced my lighting to about 4 hours a day. The first few days I was not running any screening when I got my RPE. I introduced my RPE to my tank at the side of my tank and moved it to the middle under my mh and added 1 layer of insect sreen. THe following week I purchased whammin watermelons and put them on the side my of tank, where there is less direct light from the mh.

 

[kool-cat]

I will post pictures at 6:00PM when I turn my lights on. Hopefully I can get some good shots.

Uploading pictures I just took with my 56k dial up internet.

Pics taken with kodak easy share camera.

 

[DEEPWATER]

http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum...e-dots-taking-over.html?highlight=white+spots

Srry to hear that you have the pox read thru the thread it should help youout ..I went thru this a while back ago ,
frag off all the good zoas and dip them in lugols keep an eye outon them ,basica;;y waht i did after i tried everthing is start over
Ronen

 

[kool-cat]

I plan to do another water change with tropic marin salt today. Third day I am doing a water change. 1 5 gallon bucket..

 

[JHOV2324]

Kool-cat i too had the zoo pox and like ronen said you gonna have to start over....what i did was leave my tank zooless for about 3 to 4 months and then start over...but even now any green zoos in my tank melt away...the other zoos i have are fine...sorry but natures wrath has reached your tank...

 

[kool-cat]

Err I got these zoas from fishtown.

 

[JHOV2324]

I was reading an article and it said that there is no explanation for zoo pox...it just happens....sorry...try to frag the green ones off the rock...green zoos are the first to go and the first to get most of the time...ur others might be spared...

 

[kool-cat]

Im going to dry the mainly affected colony for an hour and see what happens once inch away from a swirly compact florescent bulb. 24watts.


I blew dry it for 20 minutes... On warm.

 

[vanceny]

I had the same thing happen to me from some zoo I got from FT about a year ago. Cut off as much of the infection you can see and do the iodine dips. That worked for me. I remember the rock or the zoo's not smelling very nice. Cut your losses and get the bad stuff out.

 

[vanceny]

Also another link with others experiences. I think I tried something that I found there.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=691978

 

[digitalreefer]

Err I got these zoas from fishtown.

:headache: For some reason I'm not surprised

Good luck with them, try to remove what you can and save the other zoas in your tank.

 

[kool-cat]

I removed some zoas, but their are ones that have some brown stuff on them here and there around the colony.

 

[Deanos]

When in doubt, throw it out...

 

[bergerd]

There Is No God!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[SuRFeR BoY]

i thought zoa pox is when there are spots on zoas when they are closed
(outers membrain) not on the inside of the open zoa... and i have read that zoa pox is a bacteria infection and is cause buy bad flow and can be healed with puttting the zoas in better flow. personally i dont see any zoa pox. am i right or wrong? im think im right?

 

[kool-cat]

What is the stuff on the open zoa's, if its not zoa pox?

 

[SuRFeR BoY]

have the zoas been closed?

 

[SuRFeR BoY]

i mean have they been closed for a while?

these are zoa pox! http://zoaid.com/index.php?module=Gallery2&g2_itemId=762

you do not have zoa poxs! either those zoas were closed for a little bit and im not talken about a normal amount of time such as night .. maybe a little bit longer or those are just the design of your zoas.. you may actually get more speckles on each zoa ( can also possibly be a morph)
honeslty i think they will dissapear in time and if not, cool morph. dont worry bro everything is 100 percent perfectly fine with your zoas..
SORRY IF YOU WERE FRIGHTENED AND MISLEAD.

 

[joseney21]

to me it looks like it may be the same thing. in the pics surfer boy provided you can see some of the zoas do have spots on the insides near the oral discs. that's also most of what you'll see unless you change the angle from which you're taking the pic...never had to deal with it personally. if it is a bacterial infection aren't there antibiotics in the hobby to treat those types of infections??

 

[kool-cat]

When my lights are on my the zoas open up, but many have the white spots on them.