Zoa long term problem. Need help.

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Please help. I have been struggling with this problem for a long time, about six months. My zoa are so shrunken. I tried to change the water, feed the reef roids, I have a ro system with double resin. Tropic marin pro reef salt. 4x24w light Ati sunpower at half power because I noticed that my corals did not perform well in strong light. I burn for eight hours. Parameters: 8.6 dkh, salinity 35 ppt, ca 415, mg 1300, No3 0
4 each 0.006. I feed Ocean Nutrition 1/4 cube a day. from fish I have salarias, and 2 pterapogons. Previously it was 1/2 cube a day. I change 10% of water once a week, recently every 2 weeks regularly. I also had a problem with algae, but probably dirty water was the cause, and I tried to fight algae with water and reset the parameters. For several days I have been dosing Ati nutrition N and P in the doses given on the calculator.
I also made a dip in coral Rx several times and in a preparation similar to Furan 2 because I do not have access to the original. Furan 2 helped Zoas King Midas due to the fact that his polyps began to separate as well as other corals before. It helped only one dip even though I dipped all of them 1 time in a few days. Armor of god helped coral rx although I have no idea why right now and what else influenced it. For a very long time I have everything the same but I have reduced the light. From the entire colony, all the polyps have split apart. My scrambled eggs are the size of a pinhead, I've been fighting this for a long, long time and I don't know what to do. Could someone help me because I don't know what to do anymore and is it zoa pox, some parasite or other stuff, or something in the water although I doubt because I change the water regularly? Thank you
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IMO they don’t look bad from those pictures. If you just dipped them they may take time to open up. Single polyps take more time to act right.

maybe try an iodine dip

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Most of all brown detritus, some algae after cleaning with a toothbrush.
month ago i have 3 polyps of this dying zoa. In one day two disappeared for no reason.

Like the blink of an eye.
 
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I dip everything in Coral RX Pro. 600ml of aquarium water and 18 drops of dip. 15 min with small pump.I think nothing intresiting fell off but maybe poump slice the bugs.
 
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What is your water flow like?

Do you have any small starfish? Asterina eat zoas like skittles

What do you have for clean up crew?
 

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