Nudi Cure, Syringe Method

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Hope this hasn't been proposed before.

So I got a reasonable size rock covered in zoas. After a couple of weeks I noticed some very small nudies, with frilly tenticles the same colour as the zoa's polyps, crawling on the glass.
Then a month later the zoa rock was infested & the polyps retracted.
I read an article proposing the use of Salifert's Flat Worm remover to kill the nudies. That was a failure.

Anyhow, a removal-dip was out of the question because the zoas had spread & attached to other rocks, & so was no longer removable from the tank.

So at lights out, when the zoa polyps were more fully retracted, I used a torch & 30ml syringe (no needle), hunted down the nudies & sucked them out, 6 to a dozen at a time. Over a period of a month, & they now have seemingly totally gone, & the polyps have fully extended once again.

No chemicals.

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Physical removal can do wonders sometimes, I would still keep an eye out for them, all you need is two to make more ;)
 
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