Sponge overtaking zoas! Help!

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monkey4life

Cleaner Shrimp
#1
#1
Tried manual removal as well as a short peroxide dip with minimal success . Its a fantastic bright colony of watermelon zoas and I'd hate to lose them.


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TheRealChrisBrown

TheRealChrisBrown

Reef Shark
M.A.S.C Club Member
ex-officio
#2
#2
If you are worried about losing the zoas, why not frag off a large section of them? In that first photo the upper 1/3 of the rock looks sponge-less, just take a hammer and chisel or flat head screwdriver and try to fracture off that bit. Looks like you'd have 10-12 heads right there. I'm having trouble totally seeing the sponge in the pics, but I'm sure in person it's obvious. Just a thought, good luck!
 
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jda123

Dolphin
M.A.S.C Club Member
#3
#3
Razor blade, wire brush and then dust some kalk on the sponge and let it sit out for 15-20 minutes... then, swish it in some tankwater (that you dispose of) and return it to the tank. Use something to keep the kalk off of the zoas like a piece of thin cardboard as a shield.
 
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monkey4life

Cleaner Shrimp
#4
#4
Full colony is covered unfortunately. there literally is zero area to frag off of them. Thankfully I have a separate colony elsewhere in the tank from an earlier frag, but this one seems to be causing me no end of problems.
 
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jda123

Dolphin
M.A.S.C Club Member
#6
#6
Have you tried more light... super high light... not like LED at 100% medium-that-most-people-think-is-high light, but like HQI or 400W MH under about two inches of water high light light? I don't know of too many sponges that would like that.. and the zoas will be fine. This is all speculation. A large angelfish might also be of help here.
 
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