anyone with sundial snails?

[gojius]

Hope this is the right place to look, I have Texas trash palys, they are over running all my sps coral. I hear the sundial snail kills them:hammer:. I need some BAD!!! Anyone know were to find some, my tank is turning into a brown carpet.

 

[Drix]

... Desperate much?

Sorry to hear about your plague, but I'm not sure introducing these little muchers are going to solve your problem- Reason is that they'll pretty much eat any softie you have. Lets see some pictures of what you got as far as a problem goes. If you're into it I bet theres some reefers who'll take a few off your hands for S+H (one mans trash is treasure, etc.) I'd also look towards maybe a fish that'll eat these such as a hippo tang? If you're truely desperate I'd go for a zoa eating nudibranch, at least it only eats zoa's, but if you have other colonies this won't be too good either.

 

[mfinn]

... Reason is that they'll pretty much eat any softie you have.

Never heard that before, where did you get that information?

 

[gojius]

Cant get a pic right now. I would love to give them away but they are on every last piece of rock, glass,plumbing everywhere. My tank is only a 30 gallon cube so the tang would be a little cramped. I only have sps coral other than two brains of which one is about to be over run. The nudibranch would be great as long as they wouldnt harm my other coral, where would a guy find some of these little guys?

 

[gojius]

here is a pic

 

[Drix]

Nudi's ONLY eat zoas, so they're an option. I thought I'd read somewhere sundial's eat other softies, guess I'm mistaken. And yeah, that's alot of zoas'

 

[gojius]

Do you know of anywhere to get some?

 

[Drix]

You'd have to find someone with a problem, you're in luck though as this poster might have your answer.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1885594

All you should need is a mid sized frag thats got eggs and/or nudi's. I'm not sure of his situation but it bears some looking in to.

 

[gojius]

Thank you, hope I can get some.

 

[stoneroller]

I'd like to see a clearer picture of the problem polyp you are dealing with.

 

[gojius]

Hope these pics o.k..

 

[RokleM]

Those look like tulip anemone's / majano's, not zoa/paly.

 

[mfinn]

deff. majanos.

 

[stoneroller]

That's what I was thinking

 

[gojius]

I thought they looked like little anemone's. To bad you cant find mini clown fish for them. Any Idea on how to rid my tank of these. I have feed them kalk before but made everything sick. I have a 75 gallon that I want to transfer everything to but cant until this problem is fixed, they have grown in my sump/refugium under 24 hours of light . Took them a while to do that, but now adjusted they are blowing up there too. I stopped using Combo Vital from Marc Weiss, as this aided the problem(stuff really works). So any ideas would be awesome as how to rid my self of these.

 

[mfinn]

If your whole tank has them like in the picture, wow, what a problem it's going to be to get rid of them.

A couple fish will eat them, that I have personally used. Kleins Butterfly and a Racoon Butterfly will eat them. But not knowing what other coral are in your tank, I wouldn't jump on them yet.

 

[MikeandNicole]

Those are mojamos and they can be a pain. One guy on my local board basically built a cattle prod to shock them to death. With the amount you have, you might just want to get new rock and redo the tank. In a 30g that is not that tough to do, just pull the SPS off. They will sting your corals to death if you let them keep going.

 

[gojius]

What else do those butterfly fish eat only softies? I have sps and 2 brains. Maybe I will just throw it all into the sump/refugium and turn off the lights for a month or so and set up the 75 gallon. Most my rock is cemented together because I had a bryopsis out break and smothered it with epoxy in order to save my coral, so I may lose it anyway. I will have to figure out what to do$$$$$$$$$$$.

 

[mfinn]

My Klein and Raccoon Butterflys seemed to leave the polyps on my leather corals alone, but they did eat the skirts off the brown and green button polyps, but not the oral disk.
I had a few zoanthids, they polished off.





I just noticed you said it was a 30 gallon tank. That would be a bit small for a butterfly fish.
With majanos that thick in that small of a tank, I'd be tempted to start over.

 

[gojius]

Thats what Im thinking, I hate giving up. Maybe I should just set up the 75, wish I had known sooner what they were, like 3 years ago. Thank you everyone for your help.