zoo help

[bluelove]

i am still having problems with my zoos. eihter they are growing a fungus or some thing is eating them and they are puttig off a whiteish mold looking fluff on part of the colony. any ideas. i posted last week about this. i ve done fresh water dips and been finding sea slugs in my tank. ive pulled out every one i can see. i also bought some xina and its not doing so well. salt is fine and ive done a recent water chage and a gallon change this afternoon. im hopping by tomorrow things will perk up. :happyfish

 

[mikeyjer]

Originally Posted by bluelove
i am still having problems with my zoos. eihter they are growing a fungus or some thing is eating them and they are puttig off a whiteish mold looking fluff on part of the colony. any ideas. i posted last week about this. i ve done fresh water dips and been finding sea slugs in my tank. ive pulled out every one i can see. i also bought some xina and its not doing so well. salt is fine and ive done a recent water chage and a gallon change this afternoon. im hopping by tomorrow things will perk up. :happyfish
Those slugs your talking about are zoo eating nudibranch, very hard to rid unless your like me using a flash light every night looking for them and siphon them out with a syringe one by one. One of the better methods would be iodine dip. You should check that out!! It took me WEEKS to rid those suckers, I end up killing over a 100 of'em.... :happyfish

 

[teen]

do a fresh water dip with r/o water at the same temperature of your tank. put the zoas in for about a minute and gently shake them around. most of the nudis will fall off.

 

[mikeyjer]

Originally Posted by teen
do a fresh water dip with r/o water at the same temperature of your tank. put the zoas in for about a minute and gently shake them around. most of the nudis will fall off.
Iodine dip have more success with riding nudibranch!!! :happyfish

 

[bluelove]

thanks for the advise on the zoo eating noodies. i pulled out 6 more with tweezers but im not finding them on my zoos they are on my clove polyps

i took the zoos out for another fressh water dip and drip on them then broke off some frags to start new colonies so they dont all die off. it was so beautiful and full when i first got them

now there are

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spots. any ideas about the pulsing xinas? they are limp and tyrning brownish

thanks for the feed back. bluegirl :happyfish

 

[mikeyjer]

Originally Posted by bluelove
thanks for the advise on the zoo eating noodies. i pulled out 6 more with tweezers but im not finding them on my zoos they are on my clove polyps

i took the zoos out for another fressh water dip and drip on them then broke off some frags to start new colonies so they dont all die off. it was so beautiful and full when i first got them

now there are

[hr]
spots. any ideas about the pulsing xinas? they are limp and tyrning brownish

thanks for the feed back. bluegirl :happyfish
Have you checked for alkaline and calcium??? Or are you doing weekly water changes? At what percent and what size tank do you have? Where are the Xenia being placed, under high or low or medium flow?? They like somewhere around medium to low flow area. :happyfish

 

[bluelove]

i moved them to a higher water flow area in my tank. they seem to be doing better. i do my water changes and testing. im still not real sure about the calcium and ph. all other levels are fine. hopefully moving them will make the difference. i need to buy a calcium and ph test kit. i have an all in one kit but the ph is a color not on the chart???

 

[greenchrom]

The best way to rid yourself of a nudibranch is to invest in a fish that eats those nudibranchs. Or simply wait till your zoos are gone. Nudibranchs can only live for up to 3 weeks without eating. Then they die. Nudibranchs are also 99% of the time specialized eaters, eating 1 specific species of lower phylogenic invertebrate. So if your zoos are gone, they will be as well. A larger fish like a puffer or a wrasse will eat many invertebrates and be able to cope with the toxins the nudibranchs sequester from your zoos. My advice is to do some research on water chemistry and nudibranchs first and find out what you can about them before dipping everything you have in iodine.

 

[mikeyjer]

Originally Posted by Greenchrom
The best way to rid yourself of a nudibranch is to invest in a fish that eats those nudibranchs. Or simply wait till your zoos are gone. Nudibranchs can only live for up to 3 weeks without eating. Then they die. Nudibranchs are also 99% of the time specialized eaters, eating 1 specific species of lower phylogenic invertebrate. So if your zoos are gone, they will be as well. A larger fish like a puffer or a wrasse will eat many invertebrates and be able to cope with the toxins the nudibranchs sequester from your zoos. My advice is to do some research on water chemistry and nudibranchs first and find out what you can about them before dipping everything you have in iodine.
Iodine dip is the best way to rid zoo eating nudibranch!!! No fish will eat the nudibranch since they're toxic, they'll release nasty taste if a fish tries to eat'em, either that or they'll poison the fish. We have done much research on a type of fish that would eat the nudibranch and from every site we have searched, nothing eats'em. All of them have suggested iodine dip to rid the pest. If you have too many nudibranch that dies within your tank, they'll also release toxins. :happyfish