Zoa Help..

[Airborneguy]

So I joined in a "Don't Break the Chain" trade on another site and got two VERY SMALL frags shipped to me. I think both are dead, but one might have a chance. Can Zoas lose their heads but still have healthy stalks and grow back? The reason I ask is because it looks like the stalks are alive, but I can see in them and there is nothing down there! What gives? I tried to take a pic but they are too small.

 

[1979camaro]

I don't know about specifically losing a head and it looking empty inside, but I do know that if there are any little bits of the stalk, even too small to see, attached they can recover and spread (no guarantee that they will). I had this happen with a clump of zoanthids I gave away; the entire clump appeared to be removed (as planned - this was before the move) and then, low and behold, about 3 months later I saw one little zoanthid growing in the same general area...then two...now 50ish.

 

[Airborneguy]

Well luckily, the second, smaller frag seems to still have some life in it, but the larger one is a mystery to me! The stalks look perfectly healthy except for the fact that nothign is in them! They even "opened" for my lights today, and now are "shut" since they went off!