nudi attack HELP!!

[nutto]

Hi every one last night I was checking up on my corals as usual .I found one of my monti losing it's color .I look closer and I found a bunch of white nudi about quater of an inch in size and some egg saks .looks like they eating my monti .then I check other monti in my tank I found this nudi on every one of them.look like I have nudi farm in my tank :eek2: What should I do ?? Can I do FW dip like Zoanthid?PLSSSS HELP
I try to take a picture but they're too small. PLS some one help me asap .thank you..

 

[twon8]

don't fw dip them, youll likely kill the coral

put them in a bucket of water and using a turkey baster to spray them off the coral, then with a toothbrush and magnifying glass brush off any eggs
levamisole also kills them, but if they are on every monti, :-(

good luck, but I have heard the only way to get rid of them is go without monti's in your tank for 6 months or longer.

 

[poknsnok]

ive controlled mine to the point that I hardly see them anymore and the montis are growing great... I removed the ones I could.. fragged the one with the worst infestation and chucked the highly infested part.. I dipped in TMPCC the pcs and corals I could remove and brushed the eggs off then blew w/baster and powerhead. another good thing is my little ocellaris clowns eat them!! but only when I blow them off. its funny how the love to see my hands in the tank because they know they may be getting a nudi snack.

 

[nutto]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7833801#post7833801 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by poknsnok
I dipped in TMPCC the pcs and corals I could remove and brushed the eggs off then blew w/baster and powerhead.

What is tmpcc? If you blew them w/blaser don't they still be in the tank?

 

[poknsnok]

tropic marin pro coral cure... not always...I have done it in the tank but I make sure the clown gets them OR I suck them out with the baster.. you dont want them floating free to another monti. Ill probably never totally get rid of them because my tank is so big and most of the corals are highly encrusted and I dont want to tear it apart. to totally eradicate them you will need to remove all montis and quarantine for at least 4 weeks.

 

[GTR]

I battled with them for over two years. What I finally came to realize is a couple small colonies thrown in the trash was far better than allowing them to spread. They do seem to have preferences for certain pieces so just because you have them on one colony doesn't mean they will be on every one.

Those larger colonies I just found it best to frag into pieces that I could examine and by sure all were gone. If there were folds in the colony I'd sadly just throw that part away. I tried being a little more selective and forgiving only to have them return. I've been free of them for over 6 months now. Any new Monti gets treated as though it has them and is fragged out the same way.

Good luck... SteveU

 

[Neptune777]

I have been removing the monti's into another container and going over each piece with a magnifying glass....I have about 10 monti colonies. Use a new toothbrush on areas that are not living monti tissue (as well on any rocks they are attached to)and use a turkey baster to blast water into any caves or crevices in the monti to flush any out. I use a bamboo skewer to smoosh any adults I find on the coral tissue. This method works as I see fewer and fewer each week......I feel the end is near for this pest in my system! I think this is the only true method to get rid of them....it sucks but it is methodical and leaves nothing to chance. good luck!

 

[twon8]

you also need to get the eggs off, they are very hard to see.

 

[nutto]

That's sucks .I have 2 big colony and 8-9 frags and one of them is huge green Elkhorn Monti on a big rock with mushroom an zoanthid around it .that almost impossible to look.and the rock that I glued my monti on it huges like 20 pound up this could be hard but they don't bother acro right?
what if I put my monti in QT tank how long does it take to get rid of them ? Is it really 6 months?Man I wanna kill myself.

 

[MiddletonMark]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7835033#post7835033 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gtrestoration
I battled with them for over two years. What I finally came to realize is a couple small colonies thrown in the trash was far better than allowing them to spread. They do seem to have preferences for certain pieces so just because you have them on one colony doesn't mean they will be on every one.

Just about my experience too. My biweekly inspection/blasting/scrubbing/iodine-dipping procedure seemed a lot more successful once I gave up on a pair of pieces. Was sad to do, but as I haven't seen a trace for almost 6 months, feel that I may have rid myself of them. [with only a handful of pieces left, I'd think I'd note any damage].

They're a PITA, and sadly, tossing a couple pieces along with regular, continued, and careful inspection/removal seemed to do the trick. Did take a few months until I saw any significant reduction, and further months to `make them disappear' even with regular heavy treatment. Pest-wise, they're tough [though I may have had a large # of tiny frags fallen into my rockwork, adding lots of scattered food sources].

That said, some more `resistant-seeming' Montis suffered once the overall nudi population got big enough. While some don't appear to be preferred, IME the nudis when hungry, will eat most any Monti.