Need help have a zoo question

[Montaquelaveist]

Okay guy I'm kinda concerned the other day all my zoas started to look like they are melting the only problem I'm having in my tank is phos its at .25ppm does anyone have any answers as to what might be causing this i have a bottle of rowaphos arriving friday and did a water change and about to do another one tomorrow but I've never seen this happen before all other corals are fine its just them please any help would be nice don't wanna loose they are nice tank stats below

120g mixed reef SPS dominate
nitrite 0
nitrate 10ppm
ammonia 0ppm
ph 8.5
salinity 1.025
alk 8.9-9.3
calcium 460ppm
magnesium 1410ppm
temp 78 steady
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[KathyC]

A pic is worth a thousand words..hint..hint.

Are we talking ALL - as in every one of the zoas look this way..or are some open? Melting away and closed are 2 very different things..so a pic would help.

The zoas are not going to care very much about the Rowaphos, they aren't overly picky about water parameters.

Did this happen immediately after you did the water change? Anything to mention regarding that..had you changed salt, was it mixed long enough and not added to the tank right where the zoas are?...anything you can think of about that?

Do you dose anything that you are not testing for..iodine...anything?

 

[Montaquelaveist]

A pic is worth a thousand words..hint..hint.

Are we talking ALL - as in every one of the zoas look this way..or are some open? Melting away and closed are 2 very different things..so a pic would help.

The zoas are not going to care very much about the Rowaphos, they aren't overly picky about water parameters.

Did this happen immediately after you did the water change? Anything to mention regarding that..had you changed salt, was it mixed long enough and not added to the tank right where the zoas are?...anything you can think of about that?

Do you dose anything that you are not testing for..iodine...anything?

I will try and get pics tomorrow and no same salt always been using no not dosing anything i don't measure yes i do dose iodine but have salifert test kit for that and no none open and yes they look like they are melting not just closed

 

[KathyC]

Wondering how you are keeping your pH at 8.5 ..is that typical for your tank?

Just 2 other thoughts...did you recently add a large clean up crew that might be walking all over them.. and do you have a lot of asterinas in the tank?

 

[Montaquelaveist]

yeah I'm using a probe and it 8.2 - 8.3 at night but 8.5 during the day when lights come on and my tank always runs that high during the day

 

[Montaquelaveist]

okay guys so i lost all of my zoas they all just melted away i have no idea why kinda upset that was how i was getting color in my sps tank and covering some rock work afraid to get any more

 

[Misfit36]

I am in the same boat as you dude. One of my first corals was a mix rock of green bay packer/eagle eyes and they started spreading like mad. Then I added some other zoa frags a little at a time bc I loved the colors. Out of no where they started melting away and I have maybe 2 polyps open right now. Im leaning towards zoo pox for mine, as I see some small white spots on whatever is left. SUCKS

 

[Montaquelaveist]

yeah really sucks