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I have myself to blame... Cycled my 200L new tank for a month. I thought to myself, not bad.. patient enough.. Well, as I only have 1 chiller, I decided to transfer all livestock in one session. I'm also fully aware that the new tank can barely take the sudden increase in bioload. I still insisted to go ahead.. On the morning of transfer, I went to the farm to get T5 parts. Saw this beautiful powder blue tang. Not the usual pbt, but one all the way from Maldives.. The colours were.. wow.. and the size was only 2"!! Needless to say, I succumbed to the temptation. Went back home, left this bag of pbt aside and got down busy to replumb the chiller, return pump, and all what-nots, and transferred the livestock. In my busy-ness, I totally forgot about the bag of fish! And guess what, I left the bag standing on the floor for more than 10 hours! I only remembered I bought a fish when I was about to fall asleep at night.. Lol.. Instead of wanting to introduce this pbt first to reduce stress, now I added him last! White spots were observed the very next day. Feeding garlic-soaked food didn't help. Tried to catch him out but hugely unsuccessful. He was gone in 5 days. What's more, my fat blue tang and juvenile Atlantic blue tang got infected too.. At least the blue tang is feeding well, and he'll recover pretty soon. For the juv ABT, the spots got more, and he completely lost appetite. Finally managed to catch him out yesterday and did fw bath. He didn't make it overnight too. Lessons learnt.. 1. Never ever be in a hurry to add any livestock your tank cannot yet handle. This, my friends, is the cardinal sin. A similarly good, if not better, specimen will always come in a later date. if it's meant to be in your tank, it will be in your tank. 2. Do not attempt to transfer livestock to a new environment all at once. I should have taken my time to transfer the corals first after plumbing in the chiller. At least I would have time to place then nicely. Fishes can take the higher temperature for a day or 2 more.. This ought to teach me a valuable lesson on patience.

No expert just some suggestions based on past experience... They do require a certain amount of light and should not be kept out of the light for a prolong period of time couple of hours to a day should be fine... In fact most of the time they go to "sleep" mode when lights go off at night and that is usually 6-8hrs. Zoa melting imo points to a stage where they close up Aud degenerates till they finally perish... Normally due to lack of lighting, inadequate parameters and/or conditions.. Zoa dun really target feed la... They pick up small food particles in the water column. how much u feed also depends on how pristine u want ur water to be... Ideally 1 a day or every other day up to once a week should be Fine. I guess u referring to palytoxin (spelling error) or smthg... But I dun think it cause fishes to die intentionally or regularly... Be careful when u handle them but in all honestly I've never had any issues with Zoa poisoning my fish or me (touchwood). Generally the zoox in them uses light to make food so white light does help w growth... Blue lights are good for colouration and of course aesthetically more pleasing la... To end it off, if ur base parameter are good and have good and maintenance practice, Zoa won't give u much issues compared to many other corals Btw, I'm no expert just sharing what I think I know...

Hi kid, you may want to consider using some punctuations in your post to help us understand you better. "A panda eats shoots and leaves" is very different from "A panda eats, shoots, and leaves".

I used to have sand bed for many years and got to fight with water parameters, especially high N03, than decided to go bare bottom, now all spa frags growing wild. This is the first time in more than 5 years of reeling that I look at my tanks daily with satisfaction and some kind of accomplishment.

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What's the best food for it and how often need to feed it?