Infestation!!!

[annanymous]

help, pretty pretty please...
few days ago i noticed two huge [1/2"] zoo eating nudibraches, and i took them out. today i looked into my tank and was horrifed to find about 10 tiny ones[thats only what i noticed, i cant imagine how many more are in the rocks] nudis. these weres even 1/6". really tiny. i took these out also, and went to work. came for lunch, look into my tank and see even more then 10 sitting around on my zoos. my zoo used to be really great, now some of the dont open at all, and i completelylost my pink colony

please help me get rid of the nudis. i will do anything to get them out of my prexcious tank.
i borrowed a pic of the nudis from hitchiker id thread [hope ya dont mind guys]

 

[bang guy]

They do not reproduce all that fast. If you irritate your Zoa colony so it shrinks then siphon out any Nudi's you find they will eventually go away. If you can remove the entire coloy then it's easier to shake them off.

 

[viper_930]

Is that your only zoo colony?
Do a freshwater iodine dip once a day for 3-4 days.
Edit: Try what Bang Guy recommended first, it's not so extreme.

 

[annanymous]

my tank is mostly zoos

 

[pitbull01]

WHOA!!!!!! What is your water level doing so low? Other than that I would just take those nudibranches out when you see them. They don't reproduce very fast so it should take care of that problem. Otherwise get a mandarin or a scooter blenny-those eat pesty nudibranches, but only get one if your tank has been set up for at least a year. Your tank looks very healthy!! Good luck! :jumping:

 

[annanymous]

my tank has been set up more than a year already, but i am soon getting up a 90 gal tank and transferring everything eventualy to the bigger tank. im scared of getting a mandarin [not enough LR], but i will consider a scooter blenny

 

[latino277]

a six line wrasse might help also :thinking: :notsure:

 

[pitbull01]

Just be sure when you move everything to the new tank that you check over your rock VERY carefully just to be sure you transfer as few of those nudibranches as you possibly can.
-dam

 

[pitbull01]

OH!! Whoops! -dam is supposed to be -Adam. Just to clear that up. Good thing I didn't put a N after that. Huh?

 

[annanymous]

i noticed and pretty often lately that those *&%^+$#- nudi's let go of a sort of like a string matirial that looks like a leg of a tiny white brittle starfish [ i hope im making sense in my description] and those strings settle on my zoos. i remove most of the but once i decided to leave it and see what it was...3 days later i noticed about 30!!!1 tiny [really tiny] nudis crawling on the colony of zoos.

 

[annanymous]

any input???

 

[f1shman]

My Input: Good Luck

 

[shawnts106]

Sounds like your screwed!... this isnt good for you.. nor is it good for your ZOOS!!!
I would just sit there with a syphon and a bucket and just look the tank over constantly inch by inch untill I got every last one.. and BTW: dont leave anymore stringy things in your tank LOL!!! not to laugh.. .just kinda ironic...! OH!
well... I hope everything goes good.. I would personally just tank every peice of coral/fish/rock out untill I had nothing but sand and zoos... but that just might be what you end up doing!

 

[pitbull01]

SCHNIKIES!! It sounds as though you may have to take your tank down and set it back up later. Next time, you will have to put any rock (even live sand) and put it in a seperate tank for a while until you are 100% positive that there are no hitchhikers. If it looks cool, but you dont know what it is, dont put it in your tank.(just a word of advice)
Good Luck,
Adam

 

[annanymous]

should i just leave it be, since my 90 will be cycling in bout a week, i would be able to transfer all the other corals there later and leave just the zoos [for cleaning and disinfecting purposes]
im really screwd
i have no idea where they even came from. the tank is up and runnign more than a year, and this only started about a month ago

 

[pitbull01]

That sounds like a VERY good idea to me. however, I would quarantine all of the livestock first before adding them to the 90-zoos in a seperate quarantine tank. So you could do fish and live rock and any corals that arent zoos, and then a quarantine tank with only zoos. If you are as concered as you appear to be, just put the zoos in a hypersaline bucket (bucket filled with water with a very high salt content aka 1.030 or even a bit higher. Just be sure to only leave them in there for no longer than 2 minutes. With the water that salty any pests should evade the rock and you can then physically remove all, or as most of them as possile.
-Adam :happy:

 

[annanymous]

wouldn't that effect my zoos too? do i just put them from the MT staright into the salty water for 2 min and then back to the MT?

 

[buzzword]

Annanymous, I had the same problem with zoo eating nudi's, here is what I did. I dipped my zoo colonies in fresh RO/DI water for 7 minutes exactly. They, the nudi's, will fall off and you can flush them. I did this for 3 days in a row. I also used tweezers and picked them out when I saw them. It took me about a week or so to get rid of all of them. The white stringy stuff is eggs, get rid of it. I tried the iodine dip as well and found the fresh water dip worked better. All my zoos are doing great since, with no ill effects. HTH

 

[pitbull01]

Go with what the last post said...it sounds much safer than my idea. I like to live in the "danger zone." Not!! Just kidding about that whole danger bit. However, do you mean just freshwater ro/di or ro/di water that has salt mixed in it already-like you would do after you do a monthly water change?
-Adam :jumping:

 

[buzzword]

Straight RO/DI NO SALT! They fall right off, and if they didn't I would pick them off with the tweezers. Used tweezers when I saw them in the tank as well.