Help: Monties dying

[Laird]

Will they die if they run out of montis to eat?

 

[Captain Nemo]

Unless they move on to other LPS and SPS. I hope they do not, but I dont know the anwser.

 

[kev2me]

They only eat montis, so yes they will die from starvation.

 

[secretreefer]

+1 i had monti eating nudis before. ate my caps, also ate my encrusting type montis. i had chopped 1cm pieces of 3 different colored caps too and they were starting to grow into each other on a flat river rock. major color grafting was happening but then nudis came in and ruined the fun. grrrr... If dipping scrub under the caps to increase your chance of removing eggs.

Ahh I should add that when I dipped I scrubbed with a toothbrush while in the dip, I can't remember if I saw eggs or not.

 

[swannyson7]

Potassium permanganate may help.

Be careful if you go this route. I've never used it personally, but from everything I hear, a little bit goes LOOOOONG way, although it is very effective if dosed properly. I've read about people who nuked their entire tank by using this tactic on my local reef forum

 

[kev2me]

Be careful if you go this route. I've never used it personally, but from everything I hear, a little bit goes LOOOOONG way, although it is very effective if dosed properly. I've read about people who nuked their entire tank by using this tactic on my local reef forum

They didn't dose their entire tank with it did they??

 

[swannyson7]

They didn't dose their entire tank with it did they??

No, they used it in a QT, but everything that they put in there got nuked.

 

[Laird]

I took all my encrusting out and dipped them, almost everyone of them had the little *******s on it. I scrubbed them too. Hope it works.

 

[m and m]

I would say dip and a close inspection of everything, make sure you take a toothbrush and dust them off. Also dip them every other day to make sure you kill the eggs aswell or youll get rid of them for a few days and they will be back.,

 

[Diamondsinthereef]

I hate these things. They're almost impossible to get rid of in a closed system with montis. I dipped and dipped with no luck. I tried different types of wrasses and had no luck. I would take frags from the opposite ends of the infected area and place them in a seperate tank. I did this and saved some of my pieces that I really didn't want to lose. Good luck with your battle. I hope you beat them without to much damage.

 

[Troylee]

man if there nudis i would just frag a small piece from each one and put it in a different system all together and toss the colonies.... i had a friend battle these for a good 6 months before he threw all the colonies in thrash out of frustration.... sucks man i hope it's something else....

 

[jonzee2006]

man if there nudis i would just frag a small piece from each one and put it in a different system all together and toss the colonies.... i had a friend battle these for a good 6 months before he threw all the colonies in thrash out of frustration.... sucks man i hope it's something else....

yea nudis suck I haven't had them personally but I have heard a lot of horror stories.

 

[Laird]

How well do they get around? I have all my encrusting on a frag rack up above and away from anything, think that will help at all? GRRR, this is so ******* frustrating. I've already lost around 2 square feet worth of monti.

I want to know where they came from. I havent added any new montis in a LONG time. Do they just come on any coral? I dip everything before it ever goes it my tank.

 

[gar732]

I'm in the same boat, I dip everything that goes into my tank and I still got them. Chances are there were eggs on a frag that you got. The only 100% way to get rid of them is to remove all montis from your tank and treat them in a separate tank. This way the ones left in the tank get starved to death, better then they deserve. I thought I beat them like twice already and a few months later with no new additions, BAM, there they are. I use melafix and revive to dip them and gently brush the whole coral. I think I'm eliminating the nudis from the corals but they are lingering somewhere in my tank and they get reinfected.

 

[m and m]

I'm in the same boat, I dip everything that goes into my tank and I still got them. Chances are there were eggs on a frag that you got. The only 100% way to get rid of them is to remove all montis from your tank and treat them in a separate tank. This way the ones left in the tank get starved to death, better then they deserve. I thought I beat them like twice already and a few months later with no new additions, BAM, there they are. I use melafix and revive to dip them and gently brush the whole coral. I think I'm eliminating the nudis from the corals but they are lingering somewhere in my tank and they get reinfected.

Like you said yourself, when you dipped them you most likly killed all them but not the eggs. A few dayts later came and all the eggs hatches and boom your infested.

 

[davelink]

i beat my nudis with coral RX and superglue gel. i caked the areas that were eaten with glue, went over all the edges with superglue, they like to hide the eggs under caps or between the monti and rock if its on a plug, so if you seal up the crevaces that arent in direct light the chances are youre gonna suffocate the eggs. it took weeks and weeks but i havent seen a nudi in 3 months now (fingers crossed)