Monti Nudis -- I Was Prepared, or So I Thought

[jd474]

jd474 -- how sure are you that your system is nudi-free? Do you have any wrasses in the tank that could be controlling a small population? Curious is all...

100%, and no wrasses. Like I mentioned, at such small odds, I don't believe in natural predation for these.

 

[TampaSnooker]

I just found some in my DT Thought they were zoa nudis at first but the damage on the border of zoas/orange cap had me looking up monti nudis. Then I saw the edge of my new rainbow and the older superman and the sunset... I have a 6 line and a yellow coris. Been a while since I've kept a radiant wrasse. Like I need an excuse to pick up another beauty...
I'm in the same boat in that my colonies and frags are all on the same large bolder. If natural predators can keep population's damage below the monti's growth rate, I'd be OK with them. If the piece could be extracted, is there an effective dip that one could to on a 25# rock with acros and montis all over it?

 

[ostrow]

Well, I sure don't want to jinx myself, but thought I'd share. All die-off ceased about 10/20. Some regrowth is evident. At night I still see what look like MENs but always in the exact same spot, same individuals, unmoved. Weird. I have yet to see either radiant wrasse make any eating motion on the monti side of the tank. Not a single such movement. The other 2 wrasses aren't supposed to eat them and also show no signs.

Perhaps a fortuitous spontaneous die-off? Perhaps the radiants prefer to eat when unwatched (though that hypothesis is sure disproved every time I put in Rod's Food!).

Dunno. Worth watching....

 

[CUNAReefer]

I used the coral Rx and love it. I only had a couple small frags of monti in my tank, so it was pretty easy to treat the corals. My observation when using Coral Rx:

Only one stag coral bleached while dipping corals over 6 days and three treatments. The color is starting to come back after 3 weeks.

Montipora can stay longer in the Coral Rx solution. MENs do take more work to get off the coral, but they will die off within 20-25 minutes. Be sure to find a single MEN on the coral and watch to ensure he falls off the coral when swished around in the water.

Good Luck!
James

 

[ostrow]

CUNA: read the OP. Not practical -- corals encrusted over enormous rock -- not removable.

 

[CUNAReefer]

CUNA: read the OP. Not practical -- corals encrusted over enormous rock -- not removable.

Thanks for keeping me on track. I was speaking on MENs in general just in case someone other than the OP was reading this thread to find out treatments for MENs. I didn't intentially mean to get off topic, just trying to help other reefers by providing results from my actual experiences.

Warmest Regards,
James

 

[ChicagoReefOne]

Glad to hear the montis are recovering Ostrow! Did the rainbow and flowerpetal frags I gave you get eaten?

 

[ostrow]

CUNA: :thumbsup:

Chi: time will tell ... flower petal looking not so good but I also bought an enormous chunk around the same time that seems fine.

 

[ChicagoReefOne]

cool, my donation was admittedly smaller, but I had to frag up the mother a bit more over the summer because of various things (you saw that thread and commented). So now I have a couple of other frags. Let me know if it doesn't pull through.