Need I.D Please!

[Mel-E-Mel]

Can anyone I.D this for me? Looks like some type of slug about 3/8''......found it on my zoo colony. Good or Bad?

Thanks for the help!

 

[T-T-Trigger]

looks almost like a berghia nudibranch

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-01/ac/feature/images/image027.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-01/ac/feature/index.php&h=300&w=400&sz=17&hl=en&sig2=m1LafrEDMlHWDMunZ3XCWg&start=16&um=1&tbnid=IEQ-wDdDEQY7wM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&ei=SNMVRqOAFpTYgAPLnMjUCg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dberghia%2Bnudibranch%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

 

[T-T-Trigger]

 

[nasotang]

Looks like a montipora eating nudi. If it is a monti eating nudi you don't want in your tank.

 

[nasotang]

second picture kinda looks like a monti eating nudi.

but the first picture looks like a berghia nudibranch

 

[Mel-E-Mel]

Thank you t-t-trigger and naso tang. I completly forgot to do a fresh water dip before i put it in my tank! Think i will do that now incase there is more on the colony i just picked up.

 

[Mel-E-Mel]

freshwater dip is a way to get them out right? or is that only for ich?

 

[T-T-Trigger]

wish i was more familiar with nudibranchs, may have spoke to soon on the berghia diagnosis because i have never seen the monti eating nudis. i hope it is a solo traveler so don't run into problems if it is the bad kind.

 

[nasotang]

yeah I can't really say for sure what kind of nudi it is, but when in doubt remove them and QT your corals.

 

[Mel-E-Mel]

in the dip as we speak! hope that was the only one.

 

[650-IS350]

DId you do the LUGOLS' dip in FW? Also after the dip, inspect the polyps and their base for curly looking egg sacks from the NUDI's

 

[Mel-E-Mel]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9659225#post9659225 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by delsol650
DId you do the LUGOLS' dip in FW? Also after the dip, inspect the polyps and their base for curly looking egg sacks from the NUDI's

Sorry Delsol, not familiar with Lugols....just dipped it in ro/di water for a few mins then shook off.....looks like nothing else there but i did find the egg sacks....wasnt too sure how to get them off so i kinda scraped em .....i know theres a better method of doing this bu tthere wasnt too much thankfully.

 

[Mel-E-Mel]

ok, just researched lugols.....will definitly add that to my things to buy.

 

[Kinetic]

lugols is good, but in the meantime I'd go grab a bottle of any iodine dip, like seachem or something just for now and dip that until you can get lugols.

also try Tropic Marin Pro Coral Cure.

 

[Kinetic]

by the way, they look similar, but at the same time different enough for me to kill'em all.

 

[650-IS350]

I've heard that TMPCC is the closest thing to a cure or kill all for coral dips or coral desease

 

[Mel-E-Mel]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9659343#post9659343 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kinetic
lugols is good, but in the meantime I'd go grab a bottle of any iodine dip, like seachem or something just for now and dip that until you can get lugols.

also try Tropic Marin Pro Coral Cure.

Can i use kent marine iodine?? thats the only iodine i hav eon hand at the moment.

 

[Mel-E-Mel]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9659393#post9659393 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by delsol650
I've heard that TMPCC is the closest thing to a cure or kill all for coral dips or coral desease

Will look into TMPCC.

 

[nashorn]

Re: Need I.D Please!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9658893#post9658893 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rommelgin
Can anyone I.D this for me? Looks like some type of slug about 3/8''......found it on my zoo colony. Good or Bad?

Thanks for the help!

Those are BAD. Zoa eatting. Fresh water dip will kill them fast. look for eggs on the side of any zoa or palys. You can scrap the eggs off.FW won't kill the eggs. Look for more at night since that when theyr'e come out to feed. they will eat the tentacle but most of the time won't kill the zoa. Not a big deal if you have lots of zoa or palys. But if you have one $50 polyp then I'll be worry

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Yep, way bad. Zoa eating nudibranchs. FW dip, and quarantine.

Yellow wrasse can help control those in your tank too.