Nagel said:Just a quick question for you guys. Whats the salinity of your water? Some zoanthids come from low salinity areas where rivers empty into the ocean. A discussion with a few other reefers has led me to believe some of the zoanthids we keep suffer from "too high" of a salinity level and actually do better in water with a 1.022 or so salinity rather then full 1.025 salinity.
Just a thought and something to possibly help eradicate the plague...
Nagel...I keep my salinity at 1.025 to 1.026 and everything seems to be OK with my pieces. For some reason the pieces that are getting infected seem to be either bad before the vendor ships them or it's happening during shipping. Your making a very good point about the salinity being to high.
Just an update on the peroxide dip. I had a newer piece that I received a week ago show signs of the fungus so I gave it a bath last night. I cut down on the dip time to under 5 min and used my turkey baster to wash the piece and I think the zoos look much better then when I dipped for 15 min.
-J