Tuesday night:
Not sure if I would use my whole 5 gallon quarantine tank or not I did a 100% water change with fresh salt rodi mix. I heated it to the same temp as my tank and put a small powerhead in it to keep the water moving a bit.
After reading the article again, I decide to just use the tank as my "fresh saltwater mix" and not qt the zoas in there. I tore open one Furan-2 packet, and dumped it into a plastic cup I use for "coral rx" and iodine dipping. "Its yellow!!" That was the first thing I said out loud to myself. The article talked about it "dying" the water green and even turning the zoas greenish. But to my surprise this stuff turned my water urine yellow!
2.5 warmed to my tanks temp. fresh made saltwater + 1 packet of yellow Furan-2 powder. I mixed with a plastic spoon until dissolved. Placed 2 blue zoa pox covered colonies into yellow water. Used turkey baster to blast them with it a bit and aerate the water ever 5 mins. Timed for 30 minutes. Took zoanthids out and swished them in my sump. Stuck them back in the tank. Looked at them later, they looked the same. Like crap and not opened.
(Discarded furan-2 and fresh saltwater in cup down the drain and rinsed the cup with tap water. Washed hands.
Wednesday Night (about the same time):
2.5 cups of fresh mixed salt water out of 5 gallon QT that is heated to the same temp as my tank. One packet of Furan-2. Mixed till dissolved. Added Zoas (swished water etc.) 30 minuets and rinsed swished the zoas in the sump to rinse them again. Stuck them back in.
I noticed that they look a bit better. They are not open, but there are only a couple of pox left on each colony.
Thursday night:
In the original article the dude talks about "letting them rest" between treatments. He was not really clear about this so I picked Thursday for the "rest" day and did nothing to the zoas. Noticed that about half the polyps were open on one rock and only 2 are open on the other. All the flesh I could see looks about the same a couple pox visible.
Open packet..
It's Yellow!
using the turkey baster to add some circulation.
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