Best predator for monti nudis!!!!!!

I ave dealt with them, I cant yet say I am nudi free but its been 2 months and I haven't seen any, I threw away the most infected colony and dipped the rest in revive every 5 days for 5 weeks for a total of 7 dips, I also went over the bottom of the colony(aftrer removing it from its base ans throwing that away) and scrubed any area that even remotly resembled eggs. my montis have all started to color back up, and are showing great growth again.
 
Well i took it out today an scrubed off any nudi's that i could see and where i figured there eggs would be with a tooth brush I also turkey blasted some off as well and to my surprise the chromis ate them as the were floating in the water column I'm also going to add a melanarus wrasse i guess it won't hurt...
 
Well, at least it is a common coral that is easy to replace...the orange cap is cheap and grows like a weed..I would honestly chuck it, wait a few months and enjoy growing out a new one. I had them a few years back and ended up having to get rid of all of my monties...I had a smaller tank then..thank god! Good luck if you want to save the coral.....a lot of work.
 
also I would recomomend setting up qt tank, I am in the process of switching to a larger system and the old system will be stripped of rock and sand(which will be dipped in fw for a few hours, before adding it to the new system) I will then be using the old tank as a qt to exta sure there are no nudis.
 
Re: Best predator for monti nudis!!!!!!

The only wrasse that worked for me is a radiant and red tail. IME these two are the only ones that would swim around and pick at the nudis on the monti's and rocks Lost a few colonies but was able to save the Idaho Grape. Just my .0002

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Do you have any other Monti's in the tank? Do they look infected yet? If not you may be lucky and the nudi's prefer the cap. Removing the cap now might save the rest. Otherwise you risk losing all of them. If you do remove the cap turn off all flow, and very slowly carefully remove it. Adding the fish in the hopes it will eat the nudi's may give them enough time to spread to other monti's. Not a risk I would take having dealt with them myself already.

Good luck with the fish.
 
I would also chuck the colony. Keep some small pieces of you montis in a quarrantine tank and bite the bullet in your main tank. Take it as a cheap lesson and dont let it happen again with your real valuable montis.
 
Thanks everyone! Yea they appear to only be on the cap the other monti's encrusting superman, confusa, pokestar ect seem to be a ok with no sign what so ever also the green and idaho grape have no sign as well what should i do about all of them??? Just remove the cap, more than likely they are in the live rock as well and it's only a matter of time before they got to the others too right?
 
They tend to stick very close to their food and also lay their eggs very close. So if its only one coral at the moment they may all be concentrated right there. I would remove the infected piece, shut off the circulation and remove it slowly so none get blown off. Then watch the rest closely if another is infected get it out. Keep going down the line until either no monti's exist or the pest no longer reappears. If you end up removing all of them then the tank will need to monti free for atleast 6 months.
 
I find over the years and many tanks to erradicate them is almost impossible except for reoving every monti and starting again, which does not seem possible must of the time.

Yellow coris , radiants and IME 4 lines ( hawaii) are excellent at keeping them at bay and your corals can withstand them and grow w/o major issues. HTH
 
Agree with gasman IME; also get you about 15-20 blue legged hermits and watch them hang out on the affected montis and then the nudis are not on that monti anymore after a little time.
 
colgan10 said:
WOW! I'm starting to become heart broken, I don't even have any idea how they came to be in my tank I haven't noticed them to just recently this sucks
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Same thing happened to me, ended up getting rid of every montipora in my tank, those things are bad news for montis... The only good thing is that seem to only infect montipora and not everything else.
 
I just noticed that I got them as well, I can't explain how since I haven't added anything in over a year or two, and I didn't see signs until the past month. Now I lost my seasons greetings, Idaho Grape about 90% gone, and now its working on my Leng Sy. All were getting large. I did notice my ORA Orange Cap getting it a bit ago, but my wrasse must have kept them at bay. I am so PO'd. I have noticed my crabs are all over were I have been seeing them. My Dwarf White Leg Crabs have been over there, hopefully eating them.
 
Can somebody explain the following?:

I got rid of the monti nudis, tossed the contaminated frags, the eggs etc. And for a month nothing, no attack.

Then a friend came by and I was telling him about how I got rid of them and suddenly I saw an adult crawling on the front glass!.

I inmediately crushed it with my finger, and ever since then I started to check my montis at night all paranoic, and nothing, no sign of eggs or adults or messed up montis. So how can an adult pop out in the middle of the day after 4 weeks?, what did it eat?, could it be that it just ate a lil bit and never laid eggs and then I crushed him?....Just strange.
 
ok I have been nudi free for 3 months(as far as I can tell). I am swithching tanks and will be starting will all new lr and sand in the new tank, all corals will be dipped before entering the new system, and I plan on putting the montis in the frag tank to keep an eye on them before adding them to the display, is it safe to say that if there are any montis there is now way for them to reach the display from the tied in frag tank?
 
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