Killing zooanthids

[mortimersnerd]

My tank is being taken over by a minimally attractive zooanthid that I'm fairly sure has given me mild to moderate palytoxin poisoning on more than one occasion (just recently learned about palytoxin, hadn't realized thats what it was). In short, I want to eradicate them from my tank. Have considered using something like Stop Aptasia and injecting then individually, but that would be a major pain as there is about a zillion of them (willing to do it, just looking for other, less toxic solutions). Am also contemplating buying a small angel to put in a small separate tank and putting the rocks in with it individually. Other ideas?

 

[Ben1]

I too have a pest paly growing. I have kalk paste, joes juiced, etc to no availe. It might slow them down but they always come back. Someone suggested I epoxy over them, wait a few weeks and pop the epoxy off. I think that might be my next option.

 

[Anonymous]

Epoxy works, but just be sure and run activated carbon and keep up on water changes.

 

[leftovers]

use Lye inject into the stalk of each one you wish to kill. Kill a few a day do NOT go overboard the lye will increase pH substantially for short time so us 2tbls max per day or less depending on size of tank. The lye will absolutely kill them as it dissolves the internal organs....

 

[Anonymous]

Will eat and kill every single zoanthid in your tank. It is super not reef safe but if you don't have many corals you can cover them until the fish is done with his work.

This is the first biological control that comes to mind. I would smother them with kalk or dry salt to kill them a bit at a time and run a boatload of carbon.

 

[leftovers]

Unfortunately...it might not. It will depend totally on the fish.

My Raccoon never touched a single zooanthid. It ate every aip in the tank and would occasionally nip at my BTA's but not once did it care for my zoo's sps/lps or soft corals.

The ONLY coral it ever ate or pecked at repeatedly was a maze brain I was rehabbing.

 

[Anonymous]

I had mine removed by peppermint shrimps.

 

[Anonymous]

Easy solution.. release a herd of "sundial" snails. If you want to keep some, super glue a piece of fishing line onto the snail and attach in a place that will only allow the snail(s) access to the zoas you want removed. >credit to Matt aka Western Reef (not Western Reefer)