Polyptician
Premium Member
In my experience FWE does NOT work on killing nudis ... try this for yourselves. (Let me know if you find anything different)
Double dose your tank. Isolate a nudi in a clean dish with the water from the tank after you have dosed and watch the nudi. You might want to cover the dish to prevent evaporation and salinity drop. You dont want to kill him because he'll probably be alive for days.
My hypothesis is that if a tank treated with FWE and nudis die, its not caused by the FWE but rather the toxins released from any dead flatworms.
Some have defended fwe's effectiveness by theorizing that there is a possibility that there are two species or strains of nudis -- one succeptable and one unaffected by FWE. Therefore, some would benefit from FWE's use. This is possible.
However, if my hypothesis is correct, then people are wasting time and money needlessly. And should be using other not-so-popular methods like fw dips.
I urge everyone with a nudi problem and some fwe to try this out.
Lets get to the bottom. Perhaps someone with flatworms could enrich us further, make a control no FWE, a FWE nudi, and FWE a nudi and flatworm.
Keep on fighting.
Double dose your tank. Isolate a nudi in a clean dish with the water from the tank after you have dosed and watch the nudi. You might want to cover the dish to prevent evaporation and salinity drop. You dont want to kill him because he'll probably be alive for days.
My hypothesis is that if a tank treated with FWE and nudis die, its not caused by the FWE but rather the toxins released from any dead flatworms.
Some have defended fwe's effectiveness by theorizing that there is a possibility that there are two species or strains of nudis -- one succeptable and one unaffected by FWE. Therefore, some would benefit from FWE's use. This is possible.
However, if my hypothesis is correct, then people are wasting time and money needlessly. And should be using other not-so-popular methods like fw dips.
I urge everyone with a nudi problem and some fwe to try this out.
Lets get to the bottom. Perhaps someone with flatworms could enrich us further, make a control no FWE, a FWE nudi, and FWE a nudi and flatworm.
Keep on fighting.
). I got rid of my monti nudis with Levamisole (also in QT). It was much less harmful to the Monti's than the Acro's (lost about 40 acros out of ~55 in the AEFW treatment, but only lost one Monti out of ~20 while treating for nudis with Levamisole). My alk and calcium were fluctuating during the monti treatments, so that could have contributed.
