nudi eggs

[clone]

so i woke up to a nice colonie dead due to zoanthid eatting nudies.
ive been pulling out as much of the hatched nudies as i can see,my question is when pulling off the egg sacks ive droped a few back into the water,will those still hatch even thougth they arent attached to anything.i tryed to follow them to see were they land and its kinnda hard to follow something so small.there were a few sacks that i saw land but everytime i go into catch them the water movement pushes them away(pumps off, just movement from my hand). ANYONE ever dealt with this HUGE problem.

[bigmoe21]

does anything eat them?

[clone]

i had read about wrasses but,there are certen species that will eat'em

[des]

i did a little research and could only find that unknown predators if anything at all eats nudibranchs due to the toxicity. You might have to be forced to enact more extreme measures such as taking your corals out of that tank. Hopefully you can find something to eat them though.

[CoryDude]

I feel your pain. I was just dealing w/the Montipora eating kind last month. Looked all over the net for methods to cure, w/o much luck.

I tried dipping the infected pieces in lugols and manual removal of the critters and their egg sacks. Nothing was a perm. fix. Lugol dips did help, but the nudi's would eventually return after a few days.

Some have suggested Flatworm Exit.

Personally, I'd remove any infected pieces (assuming you can) and try to limit their infestation. Once they run out of food, they say it takes 2-3 months for all of them to starve out.

[clone]

ok, spent about another 2 hours tweezing nudies off some colonies.i had a single colonie with about 30-40 babies and about 3 adults(huge adults) about the size of a poylp itself,and alot of egg sacks.

which type of falt exit should i use?
and say i quarintien and i miss one little nudi,and that one sperads in the quarintien tank.

[stoneroller]

There are wrasses that eat nudis. Six line wrasse is one of them. ReefCentral Zoanthid forum has a lot of information related to keeping them out, controlling them, and getting rid of them. I dip every zoa colony or frag I get in order to prevent them from getting in. RO water with a bit of iodine based coral dip (some use Lugol's instead) will absolutely kill them but not the eggs; even just freshwater. Like you are doing, you have to pick the egg cases off.

[clone]

Six line wrasse is one of them.

i got one this weekend.lets see how well he does.
from now on i will dip

[CoryDude]

Yeah, it only takes it happening once to remember to dip and inspect any new pieces before adding them to your tank. I believe the flat worm exit that I've seen mentioned is made by Salifert.

Good luck! Sounds like what you've got is curable.

[ReefOne]

take out your zoas and fresh water dip. That's what I did when I had the problem. The usually tend to stick to the zoas only. You will also have to scrap off the eggs with a xacto knife. Scrape them off then fresh water dip a second time.

[clone]

thanks for the addvice guys its been a couple of days now and have seen very few (that i pick off) today i checked for eggs and found a couple on some colonies but nothing to bad.
FRESH WATER DIPS DO WORK

[Jamie]

Good luck with it. I am wrapping up a battle myself. I brutishly removed all of my colnies except for one, carefully inspected, manually removed as applicable, and put them in a very concentrated dip. Then, SoLiD hooked me up with a 6 line wrasse...I haven't seen a nudi in 4 days now...hopefully it stays that way.

I got some FWE on standby in case I need it. I just added another zoa colony. I have always dipped my corals before putting them in my tank...but this time my dip solution included a few drops of the FWE.

All of my zoas are opened up and seem to be happy now...and for the most part unharmed.

R, Jamie