How to eradicate zoa eating nudibranch

I have found it takes more of the fwe to kill the nudibranch compared to the normal dose. Performing a water change afterwards surely won't hurt anything. The most dangerous part about using fwe is the toxins released by the flatworms when they die. Using lots of carbon will pull the toxins out of the water.
 
Great info pete. Only downside is your pod population will most likely also die.

I have not seen any kind of dent in pod population using this treatment. Nor with interceptor for red bugs. Pods actually have populations blooms after both treatments in my case.

Brittle stars do ball up and some die, depending on how much you use. I have so many mi I brittle stars in my tank that this could be a problem if I needed to try it again. I was using it for flatworms at a very high dose.
 
Hate to revive an old thread, but any suggestions of Flatworm eXit didn't kill the nudi? Possible bad batch?
 
Unfortunately up here in the Great White North Of Canada we cannot get Flatworm exit do to pesticide regulations now imposed on Canada. And I really prefer not to spike my tank with chemicals . I have only seen 2 nudi so far and will try the fresh water dip of all zoas . Curious about the “Bayer “ dip, is there another type of “aspirin” that can be used or by chemical name as Bayer is not easily obtainable here ?
Thanks
 
Unfortunately up here in the Great White North Of Canada we cannot get Flatworm exit do to pesticide regulations now imposed on Canada. And I really prefer not to spike my tank with chemicals . I have only seen 2 nudi so far and will try the fresh water dip of all zoas . Curious about the “Bayer “ dip, is there another type of “aspirin” that can be used or by chemical name as Bayer is not easily obtainable here ?
Thanks
It's not Bayer aspirin. It's Bayer Insecticide.
 
I believe that Bayer insecticide is not available in Canada.
I, personaly had good luck with manual removal of the nudis with a tweezers and a yellow Choris wrasse to hunt the others down. (but this was in a 30g frag tank)
I wonder if a hydrogen peroxide/tank water dip would work. I know that it turns bristle worms into a pink mush
 
I have answered this question at least 50 times in different threads so I decided to post directions here.

Zoa eating nudibranch happens! Eggs can come on a frag and within a week you can have quite the infestation. There's no need to panic about them, because it's very simple to eradicate these nasty boogers from your system. All you need to do is use salifert flatworm exit and they will disappear completely within 2 weeks. The nudibranch matures in 5 days and starts to lay eggs. The trick is to kill them before they start to lay eggs. The only variation to the original instructions is the dose. You need to dose one drop per 3/4 of a gallon. So 12.5 drops per 10 gallons of total system volume. This means of your tank is a 100 tank with 100 lbs of live rock you still treat it as 100 gallons and put 125 drops in the tank. The first dose you will more than likely see some flatworms floating around in the tank. If you can actually see any zoa eating nudibranch in the tank keep an eye on them and watch them die. If you witness one die then the rest will follow soon after. If you start to see the flatworms die wait about 15 minutes and start using carbon. When flatworms die they produce a very strong toxin that can and will harm all the livestock in your tank. Don't underestimate how toxic this can be! Make sure you're using a large amount of carbon to remove all the toxin. The directions will include that part and need to be followed closely. You repeat this process every 72 hours for 4 total treatments. At this point all the eggs will have hatched and they will have never laid eggs because they were never adults.

I have used this method twice and completely eradicated zoa eating nudibranch both times. Other reefers have often used this process and had the exact same result.
Thanks for this!
 
Can say this DOES NOT work. Dosed a tank today with 3.5 x normal dose of FWE per gallon of actual system volume. FWE was BNIB with Exp 2023.

Let the dose sit unmolested in the tank for about 3 hours. Did a 15% water change at that point 6 hours later brought the carbon reactor back online. Checked the tank with a flashlight tonight about 6 hours after lights out and have found 2 perfectly happy and healthy juvenile phase Zoa Eating Nudi.

ticked and heartbroken at the same time. The tank has probably 1000 polyps of a wide variety of zoa and no way to remove them all for dips.

FWIW when i noticed my first couple adult zoa eating Nudi I also happened to be hydrogen peroxide dipping frag plugs for algae and boy does that stuff do a way better job than coral Rx does at knocking them off and more importantly killing them. Coral Rx at recommended doses only seems to stun.

I'd highly recommend going with hydrogen peroxide and Bayer dips.
 

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