Fix or start over ?

[Mrfresh]

I'm at a cross road... To say the least.
My tank is doing great. Almost amazing.

But I have some problems, I have some things in my tank I do not want.
I found a zoa eatting nudi in my tank. And it layed a lot of eggs on one of my zoas...
I'm working on getting rid of them right now.
I also have some random almost Xenia looking things all over thank.there white and super small.


But here's the issue...
I have a lot of things thriving besides corals.
I have two frilly green slugs that have layed eggs and have hatched and are growing.
At night I see the baby's sliding along eating and growing.
I have cleaner shrimp that spawn every 2 weeks on the dot, also fire and peppermint.
I have even seen my emerald crab spawn a few different times.

Is it worth losing all that to either break down the tank dip everything and start over or should I just try to isolate the issue and try my best to prevent it?

I also feel like my tank is really dirty. I moved my mp40 and it kicked up a lot of detritus today, along with how much will grow on my frag rack after a few weeks...

I'm just not happy and I think I have an itch to fix something, so,etching that might not need to be fixed. Anyone else feel the same.
What to do what to do.

 

[Zero Nitrates]

Tough problem. Not sure what I would do.

 

[Pappy]

You could buy another tank and setup just for zoas!

 

[glb]

Can you take out the zoas to dip them?

 

[Mike J.]

You could buy another tank and setup just for zoas!

I think I would do this. Get another tank and take all your Zoas out. Be intense on getting the nudibranchs and eggs out. If the nudibranchs don't have anything to eat they'll die off.

 

[Mrfresh]

You could buy another tank and setup just for zoas!

I do right now the tank is still somewhat new but I have a 60 that is just zoas, and some sea horses.
It is supposed to be my zoa garden of high end but its looking like its going to be a zoa safe haven.
I wasn't planing on getting rid of all my zoas from my 90 reef but I guess if that's the best of two evils I will have to do that.
Well the one nice thing is I can get rid of a lot of the frag racks I have in my 90.
This should let me focus it more to being a clean sps tank. The a mixed reef.

Next question what's going to be the best way to kill them off?
I have a bottle of revive, I have some fresh rodi water or is there something else I need to get.





And thank you all for the responses.

 

[Mike J.]

I surely wouldn't put the nudi infested zoas into another tank of zoas. I was thinking a 10 gallon or so; where you can watch them closely and do operations.

 

[Russellaqua]

I would definitely place the zoas from your infected tank into a small tank set up especially for treatment. You can treat them by doing repeated dips in RO/DI (freshwater, no salt) with Lugol's solution added. When treating put the solution in a separate bucket and do the treatment there (10 minutes per dip.) This will take just over a week, and will need to be repeated every 4 days to kill anything that hatched while in the treatment tank. I'd also recommend that once the treatment has been completed, leave the zoas in the treatment tank for observation only. Better safe than sorry, and it'll be easier to deal with if there's still a problem. As far as the detritus in your tank goes, some people like to do a light vacuuming when removing water during a water change. Others don't. It's up to you, but keep in mind that you will stir up things and may release things from your sand bed into the water that could upset the balance of your well-running tank, so if you do decide to vacuum only do a tiny bit at a time. Always err on the side of caution. I definitely wouldn't tear your whole tank apart just because the problems are treatable, and the risk associated with tearing it all apart is much greater than taking small steps.

 

[redtop03]

we bought another house and I have some pests I'd like to rid my tank of too, a few aiptasia and an infestation of blue clove polyps.....I think I'm fixing to start over with my tank since it's all gotta be torn down to be moved anyway...

I think I'll try to frag and save all of my favorite coral in another tank and bleach most of my rock, maybe I'll just bleach half and allow my coral to grow on the infested rock while I'm recycling the other half of the rock, then frag and get my reef restarted in pest free rock, then bleach the other half of the rock and recycle it...I have over 400LBS of rock so half should still retain a lot of pods

I hate to lose even half of my pods and over 4 years of growth and stability but I don't really see any better way....

good luck whatever you decide to do with yours, it's a pain either way you go

 

[Mrfresh]

I would definitely place the zoas from your infected tank into a small tank set up especially for treatment. You can treat them by doing repeated dips in RO/DI (freshwater, no salt) with Lugol's solution added. When treating put the solution in a separate bucket and do the treatment there (10 minutes per dip.) This will take just over a week, and will need to be repeated every 4 days to kill anything that hatched while in the treatment tank. I'd also recommend that once the treatment has been completed, leave the zoas in the treatment tank for observation only. Better safe than sorry, and it'll be easier to deal with if there's still a problem. As far as the detritus in your tank goes, some people like to do a light vacuuming when removing water during a water change. Others don't. It's up to you, but keep in mind that you will stir up things and may release things from your sand bed into the water that could upset the balance of your well-running tank, so if you do decide to vacuum only do a tiny bit at a time. Always err on the side of caution. I definitely wouldn't tear your whole tank apart just because the problems are treatable, and the risk associated with tearing it all apart is much greater than taking small steps.

Thank you.
I pulled all of my other zoa corals out and dipped them all, I checked them over very well and then moved them over to my 60 gallon zoa tank.
They are all open and happy so I feel like the nudis didn't get the chance to travel to my other zoa colonies yet. The one that did have the nudis and the eggs was removed and treated last, I pulled off all the eggs I could see and put it back in my tank.the zoas are all alone in one section of my tank, so... If anything did make it they won't be able to hop onto another frag easy. I do know that my 6 line wrasses will eat flat worms and nudis bc when I first set the tank up I had some flat worms and after not feeding the tank for a week I noticed all flat worms disappeared.( I saw him picking at them)

Cleaning the tank, I want to remove detritus but I wouldn't mess with the sand bed I know better then tank. It hasn't been touched close to a year now. I just noticed when I moved my mp40 and put it in a different mode so much stuff was kicked up.my tank looks really clean, I run a 50 micron bag on the sump and it takes over a week before it gets to that point of needing to get changed out. The other thing I have started to notice are these weird little this, they look like cod worms but stand stright up and don't have hard white shells, almost a cross between coco worms and Xenia, they are starting to pop up more and more. I would try and get a pic of them but there so small only 1/8 or maybe 1/16 of an inch long, even my macro lens can't get a good pic of them.

I think I need to come to treks with the fact I can't have a completely clean and sterile tank...