Zoa munching Nudi?

AquaGrizzly · Oct 30, 2007

I hope this is not one of them.
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If it is what should I do? I have a 5 colonies of zoas and a half dozen half colonies and a handfull of frags.

Carolina Frags · Oct 30, 2007

Yep that is what you have.

You need to remove them from your display if possible and dip them.If you have another tank you can quartine them in would be great.Do a Lugol dip to them then inspect and remove any you see and look for eggs.4 to 5 days do it again just incase eggs hatch.It will not kill the eggs so you have to do a couple of dips to try and catch them when they hatch.

Good Luck

AquaGrizzly · Oct 30, 2007

That is horrible. Good thing I don't have a display right now. The only thing I have is a stock tank. I am upgrading to a 90. Let's see what happens.

AquaGrizzly · Oct 30, 2007

What do the eggs look like? I think I know what zoas it came on and its the only zoas that are not opening up.

twon8 · Oct 30, 2007

i would check out the tank after lights out as they are more noticeable and you'll get a better idea of how big of a problem you are facing.

AquaGrizzly · Oct 30, 2007

That does not sound good. This one was easy to spot. I might quaritine the frag that I saw it on to see if that has any more. I looked all over this one and saw nothing else.

Hypertek99 · Oct 31, 2007

The eggs look like little white dots

FateX8 · Oct 31, 2007

an awesome nudi predator is the yellow coris wrasse
i got one for my prop tank and it WIPED them out

NeveSSL · Nov 13, 2007

Thats very interesting... I've heard they're also great about eating flatworms. Anyone have any experience with that? I very well may pick one up.

Brandon

FateX8 · Nov 13, 2007

dont know about the flatworm, i have tons of flatworms on the right side of my tank but NONE on the left side and the wrasse stayed on the left side and barely went to the right side

Azurel · Nov 13, 2007

I had flat worms for awhile the red planaria type. They would congregate in areas that were low flow. So I added some flow in those areas and my sixline took care of the rest. I hardly see them anymore, I know there are some in there but they really hate flow.....