Coral eating nudi ID

[shoelaceike]

Hi,

I purchased a monti mini colony a fee weeks ago. Like an idiot I forgot to dip it. Anyway, I had noticed some spots on the coral over the past few weeks.

I took it and placed it in my QT and noticed some kind of nudi seems to be causing the trouble....

This is the best pic I can get....is it a monti eating nudi or some other kind that will also eat other corals? It's green and the coral is green.

I did dip it in bayers last week but this guy is still moving around and there also seems a bunch of eggs all around the coral....little black eggs in a web. TIA

 

[twon8]

Pretty sure that is porites, not montipora

 

[shoelaceike]

Interesting.....the color is very green not yellow.....color on the pic is off......guy at the store said it was a monti.

Any idea on the pest?

 

[oldsaint]

Here's a closer pic of some monti eating nudis

 

[shoelaceike]

I guess it could be but mine seems to have shorter legs and is green.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Remove it. It's not trying to look like the coral for a good reason, I'm sure.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Had a long convo on another forum about nudis. The hardest part is unless you have a microscope and a degree its hard to tell bad from good.
Many nudis even the really pretty ones that are named and documented, scientists dont know if they eat corals or the algae off them OR the bacteria on or around them.
So yea. ya gotta flush him just to be safe.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Stomach contents of nudis have been studied. We know some eat corals and other sessile critters.

Here's an example. There is a lot of interesting data out there on it.

The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

 

[shoelaceike]

Interesting. Right now coral is in my Qt. Hopefully they stayed on the coral.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Stomach contents of nudis have been studied. We know some eat corals and other sessile critters.

Here's an example. There is a lot of interesting data out there on it.

The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.

Thank you thank you thank you. Real data can be soo hard to find.
Are you in the field?

 

[Lionfish Lair]

No, I'm not in the field. Just a fellow hobbyist.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

No, I'm not in the field. Just a fellow hobbyist.

A smart one it seems. Thank you again for the article. Im a bug nerd. they cause a lot of fear and panic in the hobby and many are actually beneficial or are completely benign in our little biotopes.
Papers like that are right up my alley.

Ill stop hijacking the thread. Flush that totally cool little sucker. There is a good advanced aquarist article on comparisons of effective pest dip solutions. And how to not stress the coral in the process.
Good luck