Found out it wasn't my flame angel eating the zoa's, it's little bugs that are. Don't know the name but they look gray and bigger than pods,looks just like the ones that you find under rocks that when you touch them they roll into a ball. Darn things come out only when lights are out. They just eat up some more last 2 nights. What can I do to get rid of them? TIA
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Critter bugs eating zoa's
- Thread starter vincent6396
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Sounds like nudibranchs.
Check out the picture on the bottom of this page.
Read the whole thread about dipping. You will also need to look for eggs.
Good luck!
Check out the picture on the bottom of this page.
Read the whole thread about dipping. You will also need to look for eggs.
Good luck!
Didn't know about the dipping stuff, gonna try and get some out tonight to take pics of them.
Sounds like amphipods to me. Do they look like these? http://www.seahorse.org/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=1528
Yes, exactly.
They don't normally eat the zoanthids, but they will climb on/around them enough to bother the zoas into staying closed up all the time.
I saw them all over the zoa's tues and last night then this morning the zoa's not there anymore.
I have a lot of amphidpods and my zoa colony is still growing rapidly. Hardly scientific evidence but either my colony is being eaten but at a rate too small to impact the growth, or amphipods do not eat zoas. Maybe mine are high class diners and don't care for the cheap zoas that no one has a special name for? 