Monti Eating Nudibranches

[Dave71]

Do these nudibranches only eat monti's or is it their coral of choice?

I am currently working on getting rid of them, and have started moving my monti corals to a QT tank.

However, I want to make sure if I QT my monti's, the nudibranches that remain in my DT will starve to death.

If so, how long will it take?

Of course I am trying to get out most of the nudibraches during the coral removal, but I have to be realistic and assume some will fall off or be missed in the process.

I am trying to avoid dosing my DT, but that may be the only option depending on their ability to survive.

 

[Dave71]

Adding pics

 

[jd474]

They also eat Anacropora, but doubt you have any of that. I'd go monti-less for as long as you can, but at least 6 months to be safe. There is no whole-tank treatment for these, FYI.

 

[mike_cmu04]

They will eat montis only as far as i know i was able to successfully get them out of my tank. I only have a 12 gallon what i did is everytime i looked at the tank i picked out the ones i could see with tweezers and took out my montis to get the eggs off them which the nudis lay on the bottom it took a couple months to get rid of them but i have not seen one in probably 4 months.