How can you get rid of Paly's? I'm being over run...

[shyerdj]

can you just sell off the rocks they are on and buy new dry rock?

 

[deputydog95]

can you just sell off the rocks they are on and buy new dry rock?

I wish I could but the the SPS is pretty well encrusted on to the rocks at this point. Not sure how it could all be split apart without doing damage.

I tried the majano wand. Didn't work. Sigh... Shriveled them up into a blob and then days later they totally recovered. Like cockroaches.

 

[trueperc]

Would those nudi's eat brown button polyps?

 

[deputydog95]

I've asked my LSF and the nudibranch's are hard to come by. I wish I could buy 20 or 30 and set them loose.

 

[jayball]

I've asked my LSF and the nudibranch's are hard to come by. I wish I could buy 20 or 30 and set them loose.

A LFS will not be able to get them in, there is no supply chain for coral eating pests. Do you have a local club or Facebook group you can reach out to? I bet someone who is battling them would be happy to capture a few in exchange for a frag or two. You should not need a lot, it only takes two to find each other and lay eggs.

 

[deputydog95]

A LFS will not be able to get them in, there is no supply chain for coral eating pests. Do you have a local club or Facebook group you can reach out to? I bet someone who is battling them would be happy to capture a few in exchange for a frag or two. You should not need a lot, it only takes two to find each other and lay eggs.

I've been toying with that idea.

Question though.... How do you determine the correct species? What I'm getting at.... Is when their done with the paly's how do you know they won't move on to your acros?

In a perfect world, they would be introduced, eat all the paly's, and then die off.

I hate to trade one big problem for a worse problem.

 

[jayball]

How can you get rid of Paly's? I'm being over run...

I've been toying with that idea.



Question though.... How do you determine the correct species? What I'm getting at.... Is when their done with the paly's how do you know they won't move on to your acros?



In a perfect world, they would be introduced, eat all the paly's, and then die off.



I hate to trade one big problem for a worse problem.

While I can not 100 percent guarantee it , in general nudi's are obligate feeders to whatever they specify unlike something like a crab that is an opportunist feeder that can easily switch food sources. I personally would not have an issue doing this to my tank if I was in your shoes. (But I like my zoa's)

Hopefully someone with more formal knowledge in this will chime in.