Help! Possible nudi found on zoa colony.

[ItouchedThebutt]

Hello all. Just a warning the pictures kinda suck so ill do my best description if it helps.

I noticed one of my colonys closed up for some time along with another seperate one. So today i went to relocate them in the tank, doing so decided to use a normal reef dip on them as well. Didnt find any in my sunny Ds. But my other colony (forgot the name) when i dipped it i noticed a small little green almost slug looking critter fall off. The size of it has to be smaller then the tip of a ball point pen. Extreamly small. Had almost neon yellow/green spots on the back witch in my eyes seemed to be on some kind of protrusions, kinda like how a leaf comes off a tree. I dont own a micro scope or anything but it kinda moved like a slug as well. Only one came off even after a small peroxide dip just to see if anything else was on there.

There was, a small isopod of some kind along with a small brittle star fish. Now i cant say if thats why it was closed up at all but i did look the zoas over and nothing seemed to be eaten off it or deteriating in any way. With that said i also have not seen them all open in a few days to check the skirts.

Bear with me on the photo its from my phone.
Pic of brittle star included as well.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Yea, I can’t tell my friend.

Looks like this ?

 

[ItouchedThebutt]

To an extent. Not as many barbs? Id say only 6 total barbs, same amount of spots. The zoas also have a neon yellow skirt.

 

[ItouchedThebutt]

To an extent. Not as many barbs? Id say only 6 total barbs, same amount of spots. The zoas also have a neon yellow skirt.

Only thing i didn't see were antenni or whiskers whatever you wanna call it.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Well If it’s a nudi , it’s not good.
There are a few with bunches of ruffled splikes and some with groups of spikes.
Hit the google on that.

Do look for egg swirls.

 

[ItouchedThebutt]

How big do they tend to be? As well as how do i rid them if so? I dont take it that im lucky and got rid of the only one..

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Under a 1/4 in.
Somtimes natural predators will take care of them. Wrasses And such.
Usually it’s repeated dips. Check the coral for eggs.
If you see one on the glass or wandering it is usually means they’ve laid eggs or there has been a hatch. The Babies will latch onto the zoas and suck the juice out. That’s when you do the dip.

 

[ItouchedThebutt]

What do eggs look like?
The only stock in my tank are hermits snails and a orchid dottyback. But whatever this thing is its way smaller then mysis shrimp.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

If you google zoa nudi eggs , you’ll see a bunch. Also you can find the couple types of nudis I mentioned.

Possible it was immature and small and hopefully wasn’t a nudi.

 

[ItouchedThebutt]

Quick question. Are all flatsorms bad?

 

[ItouchedThebutt]

Flatworms

 

[ItouchedThebutt]

Update. Found another on my rastas this time. It was alittle bigger. Heres a picture.

 

[OriginalUserName]

Update. Found another on my rastas this time. It was alittle bigger. Heres a picture.

Yup, that's a nudibranch.