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ezcompany
08/25/2006, 10:46 PM
how to get rid of fungus that affects zoa polyps?
dip? i'm not sure if its fungus but whatever it is, its causing my zoas to look like crappo.

organism
08/26/2006, 10:43 AM
ouch, that's a hard one to treat, if you take it out of the water and they smell bad, then it's fungus, the only way that I've found of treating them is to put them in some massive flow, a dip will only weaken the remaining polyps and you'll lose the whole thing. after about 12-24 hours under some massive, 1000 gph flow, it'll blow the fungus off, and the only thing remaining will be the polyps hanging on for dear life :)

Reef Junkie
08/26/2006, 07:38 PM
Yeah, like organism said, hard.
It's been a cold day in hell when I've seen a colony survive that.

Your best and only option, on top of what Organism posted, is to frag the uneffected part away from the white film. Normally the white film is the formation of bacteria and other nasty stuff, not nessarily fungus.

Got a pic?