frag dieing?!?!

i picked up a small frag of some bright green zoas (26 polyps) and none of them are opening up. so far its been 2 day and only one or 2 polyps open up half way. lighting is 3x 54w t5, parms im not sure at the moment but are good because 2 clown have been in for about 3-4 months. please help

 

I wouldn't worry yet. I would do a close inspection of the zoas and see if anything is irritating them (or if any undesirable hitchhikers are present).

 

ok thanks

 

Whoa! You are stressing way too much. 2 days is nothing. There is no way your parameters and the LFS parameters are identical. Give it about a week.

 

They just have to adjust to your tank water. Give them some time.

 

did you dip the zoas? Were they opened at the store nicely (all of them?)
I will NEVER, EVER place another zoa in my tank without dipping them in either freshwater or lugols solution first
Zoa eating nudibranchs are VERY common hitchhickers on zoas. At the store I worked at for a short time, everything was infested with nudi's. Now it seems like every LFS I go to now, their zoas are infested.

But like said, the zoas will also take some time to adjust to your paremeters etc. A friend shut her tank down and gave me a bunch of corals and I have this one zoa that hasnt opened yet...it has been a week and it doesnt have nudis (that I can tell or see after dipping). But I personally would also dip them now just to be safe.

Nudis are a pain to take care of, so it is best to be proactive in the beginning. (had both monti eating nudi and zoa eating....NEVER want that again)

 

thanks a bunch for the advise but no I didnt dip them. I dont know what that is either. can you explain what I would need to do to dip future corals? thanks for all the help,Jake