Emergency Help Please!!!!!!!

[bwillcutt]

I have a nudis attack on my zoas they are everywhere as fast as I am freshwater dipping they come right back. They are on every set of zoas I have and are destroying them quickly please help!!!!!!!!!!! Don't know what else to do but watch my zoas disappear before my eyes.

 

[NapoliNewJersey]

Get something like Flatworm exit. Not sure if it will work but you need to dip your coral in something more than fresh water... maybe someone can chime in and give you something better to dip it in.

I found 1 or 2 on zoas and I just pick them off with tweasers.

 

[bwillcutt]

I can try this but it goes well beyond tweasers at this point I used a iodine dip last night on the worst and got several more and put them in my 10 gallon tank.

 

[tazzy695]

siphon all the water out of the tank and take any fish or corals that cant handel a fw dip out and fill the tank with fw realy quick and then start once it is filled drain it right back out and fill back up with salt this will esencialy dip the entire tank all at once

 

[Sea MunnKey]

Did you "Lugol" dip them(when first bought) before placing in your Tank? or .......

Paul

 

[Hypertek99]

Yeah i would use TMPCC or Lugol's Dip on them. Use 2x the dose.

 

[bwillcutt]

In the past 6 months I have started the iodine dip on all new corals, can't figure out how I had this outbreak. Have not missed doing one coral, I have found bristle worms, flat worms, gorrila crabs, different snails, and other wild looking critters on my new corals. So!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jandlms]

In my experience, the fw dip or the fw and lugols dip have NO effect on the nudi eggs. I don't know of anything that does. The flatworm exit is a great product but when using it a year ago to take on flatworms in my frag tank I observed no effect on nudis. I even put triple the dose in a small container of saltwater and observed no effect on a nudi. Don't waste your money. The stuff is expensive.
I agree with the other advice to dip your zoos and flush the tank with fw. This will start eradicating the nasty little buggers but you will still have to continue a regimen of fw dips for a while.

 

[killingseed2000]

you can try this/ i'd use a QT tank http://forum.marinedepot.com/Topic73612-9-4.aspx

 

[twon8]

try fresh garlic, potassium permanganate, or a large dose of fwe (more like 10-25 times dosage)

the garlic and poatassium reportedly kill the eggs as well

 

[Pazazz]

siphon all the water out of the tank and take any fish or corals that cant handel a fw dip out and fill the tank with fw realy quick and then start once it is filled drain it right back out and fill back up with salt this will esencialy dip the entire tank all at once

This seems like tank suicide!!! Beware of what you are recommending!

 

[ReeferRob]

I am glad somebody said it, I was think to!

 

[Hypertek99]

Yeah that's overkill

 

[tazzy695]

well I understand it is kinda drastic but depending on how bad the problem is and how big the tank is could be a viable solution even though I know fw kills most of the other good stuff in lr also

but another option would be to possibly just drop the salinity way down for a day or so

 

[reefboy]

i had a outbrake in my quarintine(and im glad i have one) and i used two metheds together and there gone not sure whiched worked or if both did but i did 2x flatworm exit dose and yellow tailed damsels that are not being fed one or both did the job.

 

[bwillcutt]

Thanks everybody for all the different inputs! It is a 75 gallon with 21 different zoa rocks and alot of zoa frag disk. It seems to be getting a little better since the dips and vaccuming the nudis off the buttons, but there is still quite a few and no telling how many different eggs spirals I have found. I will keep up the war everynight until there gone. :violent3:

 

[JGoslee]

I would continue dipping each zoa rock in lugols/fw and use a pair of tweezers to remove the nudi eggs. When I first setup my tank I had a really bad nudi outbreak and I used the method above. It took like two weeks to get my tank nudi free.

 

[bwillcutt]

Well last night was alot better only 42 big nudis were found but the hidden egg spirals will reinforce there numbers again I'm sure. I will keep on dipping dipping dipping!!!

 

[twon8]

the potassium permanganate is reported to kill the eggs as well, so you might want to give it a try

 

[NeveSSL]

Where you would get potassium permanganate?

Brandon