zoas under attack
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Hitman
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Most Wrasses will hunt them down. I know Six Line and Yellow Coris Wrasses will for sure. Six line are know to grow up and be jerks tho so I recommend the Yellow Coris as I personally have one and is a model citizen and a heck of a hunter.
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sp1187
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so I bought a 6 line.
besides recommendations from those in the hobby, I can't find any scientific research that 6 lines do in fact eat zoa nudis.
I found another nudi on a zoa colony and watched the 6 liner work his way all around it but never made a move for it.
it then got me to wondering, do they not eat them because the nudi's are toxic to eat because of what they feed on?
like monarch butterflies are toxic to birds and amphibs from eating milkweed when they were caterpillars.
thought?
besides recommendations from those in the hobby, I can't find any scientific research that 6 lines do in fact eat zoa nudis.
I found another nudi on a zoa colony and watched the 6 liner work his way all around it but never made a move for it.
it then got me to wondering, do they not eat them because the nudi's are toxic to eat because of what they feed on?
like monarch butterflies are toxic to birds and amphibs from eating milkweed when they were caterpillars.
thought?
wom001
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yellow coris wrasse, never had any issues when my garden was up and honestly i didnt qt or anything just dumped them in there. Id see a few zoas disappear and the the wrasse would be fatter one morning. BTW I do not recommend doing what I did, but its taken me years to realize how necessary QT is.
Scrubber_steve
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I used a syringe to suck the blighters out off my large zoa rock over time.
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sp1187
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No space for QT.
And as you say, not a recommendation to others, just what I do, or in this case don't do.
