I haven’t seen them take out a polyp yet but they sure are making my colonies mad where they show up. This was the biggest, and about the 6th one I’ve plucked out. What are my options? I have a 6 line that apparently won’t touch these. I have flatworm exit on hand and I can try a 4x dose but I’m worried about my inverts and only want to use that if I have to.
Zoa Eating nudi?
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Awww man- thats a lot and likely more. All you can really do is keep pulling them as you see them but I must warn you. . . . . With these you've seen thius far- there are likely eggs and they have to be blotted off.
Can you explain what you mean by blotted off? I think there was a hatch because the previous ones I saw were all super tiny. Like I almost couldn’t even tell it was a nudi because it was so small. I don’t think I’m at an infestation point yet. But I have a lot of zoo’s I need to protect
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These are the eggs which are laid in a letter "C" or circular pattern:
The eggs cant be treated with dip which has no effect on them. You have to take a damp paper towel and blot them off. Its easiest to see the eggs under heavy blue actinics and are usually laid on the stalks of the zoas
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I've used Flat Worm Exit as a dip and as a whole tank treatment.
The main issue I found with treating the whole tank was the effect on the inverts most specifically the mini brittle stars.
My zoanthid dominated tank seemed to have a over abundance of mini brittle stars and it seemed like there was more than a 50% death rate with them. After adding FWE to the tank they seemed to gather in a big ball and most died.
I would go through the tank before the treatment and remove as many of the hermits and snails as I could find, so I'm not really sure how they would react.
Most of the time when I used it as a dip I would use 4-5 drops in a quart of tank water and place the colony in for roughly 2 minutes.
Sometimes I would see a nudibranch fall/float off the colony and you could actually see the nudibranch disintegrate. Just fall apart. So satisfying.
There used to be a web page that detailed the FWE use, but I haven't seen it in a few years.
The main issue I found with treating the whole tank was the effect on the inverts most specifically the mini brittle stars.
My zoanthid dominated tank seemed to have a over abundance of mini brittle stars and it seemed like there was more than a 50% death rate with them. After adding FWE to the tank they seemed to gather in a big ball and most died.
I would go through the tank before the treatment and remove as many of the hermits and snails as I could find, so I'm not really sure how they would react.
Most of the time when I used it as a dip I would use 4-5 drops in a quart of tank water and place the colony in for roughly 2 minutes.
Sometimes I would see a nudibranch fall/float off the colony and you could actually see the nudibranch disintegrate. Just fall apart. So satisfying.
There used to be a web page that detailed the FWE use, but I haven't seen it in a few years.
