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Do you have any current pictures of your tank and some close ups your zoa's? What is the tanks temp, what is your alk/cal levels, magnesium level? pH level and last but not least nitrate and phosphate levels?
Patience. Keep doing your water changes. Think of this as a marathon.
You just started to deal with the problems. What we need to do is get into a routine. Every week change X percentage of water. Test, and manually remove the bad stuff. Every 3 days change your socks.
One you get into a routine, and get things more routine oriented’ now we can tackle the other issues one at a time.
If the crab was walking over the zoas they would be ****** and closed.
I know that I will never run a tank that is newly set up with sand again. I think that causes a ton of problems if not cleaned regularly or properly.
Here's some pictures. My phone doesn't take very good pics when the light starts ramping down.
I don't know all the parameters.. I'm on a budget so I've been saving a little at a time to get each one. But the alk is 8, pH is 8.2, temp is 79/80, nitrates are at somewhere between 5 and 10ppm, and phosphate is .05. I stopped using the phosban reactor like you all suggested.
Unfortunately I do find the crabs causing all sorts of mischief.