Amphipods eating my Zoas!

Amphipods won't harm a healthy zoa something else had to harm it first. But if it is a Isopod they will kill anything they can for food. They look like a Amphipod but larger.

Hmm,

This guy was pretty big. All curled up on the zoas it looked to be the size of a fully opened polyp if not larger. For I second I thought, "Why the **** is that zoa opened up that big at 5am?" and then I turned the lights on.

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Originally Posted by Burke

These zoas were perfectly healthy. They started as a frag of 3 and had grown into almost 7, until like two days ago, when I noticed a couple, like not there any more. I have seen zoas die, but this was strange, open big and bright one day to gone the next.


Ive done some searching and other people have had the same issue. :-|

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Sounds like just about every zoa I've ever tried to keep. Here one day, gone the next. Been trying to figure it out for a long time. I believe it has something to do with my small tank and water changes. Just to stressful for them. Any type of WC in my tank is major :(

I do a 4 gallon or so water change every week in my 29g and everything seems to love it.

I have a bare bottom so I just suck up all the crap on the floor and rock. Apparently I can only stare at the stuff that settles for 7 days :)

And a small update, they opened up earlier and looked happy on the rack.