Has anyone cured their tank of Monti eating nudibranchs?

[Phyto]

I've got em bad. I have at least 10 different Monti species and obviously don't want to lose them. I have researched. I am just curious if any of you have won this battle, and how you did it.

 

[italia]

I personally haven't dealt with the Monti species but I have dealt with the zoa eating nudis and they were a pest! I didn't have them bad but I did have them non the less. my only treatment that I used was when ever I seen a colony with a nudi on it, I would pull it and Lugols Dip it. after a month or so individually dipping peices here and there, I was bored one day so i pulled all my rock and corals, which isn't much 37g tank (55lbs rock) 20/30 different corals. and I dipped everything to the max recommendations on the Lugols directions. Ever since, never seen anything!

 

[TWINPEAKS]

I read a article the other day where someone is using FWE as a drip on zoo nudis and having good luck with no ill effects. The article was in a reef hobbyist magazine I got from GWA, might give it a shot.

 

[ScruffyRubicon]

I have been told that PraziPro will take care of the monti eating nudis.

 

[Phyto]

Thanks. I got some potassium permanganate I will try tonight.

 

[Homereef]

Potassium permanganate will kill cyanobacteria, maybe dyno's and oxidize waste.

PraziPro works very well. Lugols is good to kill the adults or stun them.

I advise treat outside of the tank in a bucket get a scaple and magnifiying glass and scrape the eggs off, the medication doesn't always get them. You might have to repeat a couple times, they are pretty hardy. Killing the egss is the key.

 

[Phyto]

Hey folks, just FYI......Last night I used KMnO. It appears to have worked very well. I basted the nudi and eggs off very easy after 1 hour. Coral coloration appears normal after treatment. I will report on the appearance of corals, 24 hrs after treatment.

 

[Phyto]

After a 2hr dose of KMnO, at 100mg/liter all corals appear the same. I collected 143 nudibranchs from the bottom of the containers. I treated 30 Montis, 1 Anacropora, and 5 Acros. Coral coloration appears unaffected. The eggs and nudis were removed with very little effort via a turkey baster. Many of the nudis moved or fell off the frags.

Immediately after the treatment; coral coloration appears the same.
24 hrs; coral coloration appears the same. Coral polyps fully extended.
72 hrs; coral coloration appears the same. Coral polyps fully extended.

 

[marino420td]

Sweet. Hope you got them all.

 

[impur]

Any update on this Phyto?

I've been doing weekly dips in TMPCC and QTing to try and rid them. After 3 weeks of dips and inspections i haven't seen one in about 8 days and no damage in over 2 weeks. Tonight will be the 4th dip.

I picked up some potassium permanganate over the weekend and plan to use it as a final punch to finish them off. I plan to use .05g in 1 liter of water. Does this dosage sound correct?

Thanks!

 

[catastrofe]

I didn't want to use a chemical treatment. . .a sixline wrasse seemed to do the trick for me.

 

[impur]

But that didn't kill them all, you will always have them present in your tank. The wrasse can't get every single one and the eggs.

I don't want to give them to others when i trade/sell corals.

 

[fazgood]

Did you treat the display tank ordo a dip?

Faz

 

[Phyto]

It has been a little over a month. I have not seen anymore nudis. I have not seen any affected areas that might be getting eaten. The colors are still great. I did not lose a single coral from the treatment.
I dosed in many separate containers. I sat with them and stirred them occcasionally. A tank dose would scare me. I am keeping a close eye on the corals. I have not anticipated complete erradication, yet. Animals tend to be driven to survive in some way. I would say that my corals look 100% better than they did one month ago. I can find no signs of nudis.
If they do come back, I will use KMnO and modify the concentration and duration of the treatment.

 

[impur]

Thanks for the update. I've gone thru 4 weeks or QT and weekly dips in TMPCC. Next week will be the final dip using KMnO.

 

[Phyto]

It has been about 5 weeks now. All the corals that were treated are currently in another tank. I am going to put an aggresive growing digitata in the infected tank. We'll see what happens.

 

[impur]

Let us know how it fares!

My display has been void of montis since 3/1/08. I've done 6 weekly dips in TMPCC. The last dip was 4/8 and i found no nudis or eggs. Keeping my fingers crossed. I'll dip them in the KMnO4 on the last dip before returning to the display.