Zoanthids Not Spreading

[MaineReef22]

What can cause the zoas not to spread i used to have so many and now i dont have many left all my parameters are fine so dont ask me im not listing them a hundred times lol. Is there anything that people do to get them to grow better what are your parameters in your tank if you have thriving zoas

[650-IS350]

where are they located at, what type of fish do you have?

[MaineReef22]

where are they located at, what type of fish do you have?

There about mid tank on the end with plenty of water flow i have a yellow tang a hippo tang and and a clown

[650-IS350]

hmmm. me thinks someone in there is thinking those polyps are popcorn..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nxLwTiCd_k

try and watch the blue or the clown from another room or video tape em'. They WON'T do it in front of you, for some weird reason.

Has the depletion in your population been slow or pretty fast

[MaineReef22]

hmmm. me thinks someone in there is thinking those polyps are popcorn..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nxLwTiCd_k

try and watch the blue or the clown from another room or video tape em'. They WON'T do it in front of you, for some weird reason.

Has the depletion in your population been slow or pretty fast

its been really slow over the past months

[650-IS350]

but how about when you first started seeing depletions? any recent additions via rock/corals/fish? or right before you started seeing issues with the polyps.

[MaineReef22]

but how about when you first started seeing depletions? any recent additions via rock/corals/fish? or right before you started seeing issues with the polyps.

Nothing its also happening to my clove polyps there slowly depleting its very agrivating

[650-IS350]

Have you seen any large worms that have been creeping around your polyps? Like Eunicids... coral eaters

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchworms.html

[MaineReef22]

Have you seen any large worms that have been creeping around your polyps? Like Eunicids... coral eaters

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchworms.html

the only worms ive seen are bristles but there harmless

[TampaSnooker]

Don't rule out asterina starfish - the little odd shaped 3-6 arm quarter inch guys. I took a beating from them last year - zoa's first, montis, chalices - their population exploded before I accepted it was them. Most of them are herbivores, but there are definitely some that eat corals. A harlequin shrimp should clear them out. The predatory ones I had were dark grey on their backs.

[MaineReef22]

Don't rule out asterina starfish - the little odd shaped 3-6 arm quarter inch guys. I took a beating from them last year - zoa's first, montis, chalices - their population exploded before I accepted it was them. Most of them are herbivores, but there are definitely some that eat corals. A harlequin shrimp should clear them out. The predatory ones I had were dark grey on their backs.

yeh ive wondered about them because ive seen them in my tank would the harlequin be safe with my brittle star that i have?

[TampaSnooker]

My harlequins haven't gone after my brittle star YET. I"m not sure they have the same tube feet that the shrimp like to feed on. They had 1,000's of asterina to eat and my brittle star is huge. They will certainly go after linkias and other decorative stars.
It's an animal that comes with sacrifice. You have to accept that it ONLY eats starfish and either provide for it when the job is done, trap it (new linkia works for bait and switch), or let it perish.