Zoa eating nudibranch recommendation

[jnava19]

Hello!

I spotted one of these creatures long ago, removed manually with twitchers and paid little to no attention as zoas seemed to be growing pretty well. I thought it was gone (10 months ago).
3 months ago, the colony where I spotted it stopped opening and losing polyps. I dipped it and catched one. I read more about it and tried to find them at night. I catched maybe one more. Lost that colony. But for a while it was ok. I remove that piece of rock, I know now also the eggs are hard to kill.
I dip anything new, but that colony I bought it at the very beginning and didnt realize importance of dipping/quarantine.

In the last 4 weeks I have catched 3 on different zoas. Most of my zoas still seem to be growing well, but I want to get rid of this creatures for good.

I read a treatment with Flatworm Exit might work and I understand because of eggs I will need to treat a couple times.

I would like to know your experience, would it affect other creatures like snails? Any secondary effects I should think twice before using it? Any experience or advice on this product or on this issue will be valuable to me. Thanks in advance!

 

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[dbjonesjr]

I’ve had good initial success with Halichoeres melanurus. I saw one and went out and bought one that night. No further problems since.

 

[jnava19]

I’ve had good initial success with Halichoeres melanurus. I saw one and went out and bought one that night. No further problems since.

Nice. Thanks for the suggestion. How does it take along with other fish? I have 2 clownfish, one blue damsel one dottyback and one yellow tang. Despite the personality of the damsel and the dottyback they do good along.
Also any special diet requirement for this fish once nudis are gone? As of yesterday I couldnt spot any new one.

 

[dbjonesjr]

Nice. Thanks for the suggestion. How does it take along with other fish? I have 2 clownfish, one blue damsel one dottyback and one yellow tang. Despite the personality of the damsel and the dottyback they do good along.
Also any special diet requirement for this fish once nudis are gone? As of yesterday I couldnt spot any new one.

I should probably ask what size tank you have too. My guy is pretty big, but nearly any fish within Halichoeres should do a nice job taking care of pests. If your tank is on the smaller side, a Halichoeres chrysus would be a nice choice. Mine is a pig and eats anything I put in the tank, so no particularly special diet requirements.

 

[jnava19]

I should probably ask what size tank you have too. My guy is pretty big, but nearly any fish within Halichoeres should do a nice job taking care of pests. If your tank is on the smaller side, a Halichoeres chrysus would be a nice choice. Mine is a pig and eats anything I put in the tank, so no particularly special diet requirements.

Tank is 45 gal and sump is 10gal. The yellow tang does nice but is getting big... I will definitely look into this. Thanks!

 

[mfinn]

When I use to keep zoanthids, I used FWE as a dip.
I used 4x the normal dosage as a dip.

 

[jnava19]

Update:

I have been trying manual removal, and so far looks good. However, this morning I saw what I though it was one nudi, on top of my Sunny D's and actually it was a new head growing, I however, broke it with the tweezers and now the rest don't want to open. Any recommendations so it can heal? I plan to dip it later in ReVive, they were doing ok so completely my fault but want to help it come back. Thanks!

 

[jnava19]

Update:

FWE worked fine. I put 3x time the dose, and followed other instructions, it did the job, I saw at least 6/7 adults coming out of the zoas once fwe was put, I removed them and saw no more. It annoyed the snails, the brittle star and the shrimp. Corals and Fish ok.

After the 48 hour + water change and everything good, I added as well the Wrasse fish as recommended in case any new pop up from eggs or so, as I would not prefer to apply this again any soon.