Nudi

[Pufferpunk]

Look what I found!

I never would have seen it, if it didn't look bright orange in my actinics. I hate to kill any living being but...

 

[adamatic]

I think I saw one of those in my tank - kinda fluorescent green tips tho. Looks like a snail with a crazy hairdo. What damage do they do?

 

[Pufferpunk]

Get it out! Eat's zoas & probably other things, lays eggs & multiplies!

 

[redvipe2010]

Man, that thing is UGLY! Thanks for posting the pic!

 

[Pufferpunk]

Now that I know what they look like, I was poking around in my other tank & found another one. I picked it up w/tweezers & it broke in half & 1/2 of it blew away in the current. Do they regenerate? Will that 1/2 live?

 

[kerusso316]

Puffer,You need to do a freashwater and lugol's dip for all the sofftys and zoa befor putting them in your tanks.Also QT them for two weeks.If you dont you will get parisites.Zoa eating nudies are the worst.And alot of people have them.You are traviling far and wide to stock your thanks.Dont ruin them at the same time.

 

[Aquatic Guru]

That's one ugly nuisance! Looks like a pecan? Guess I'm not having any butter pecan ice cream from Breyers for awhile.

 

[mm949]

u will need to FW dip ALL zoo rocks and i would quarentine them tell u no longer see them in ur main tank...

small wrasse or basslet would help..

 

[Sullyman]

Razor wrasse would eat that nudi.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Yeah, will do, right before putting all the rock into my new tank in a month. Impossible to do with the way it's all situated in my tank now. I'll just do the flashlight hunting every night.

 

[Victoly]

You wil be doing a lot of hunting. I had the same thing. Can see em until the lights come on. I wouldn't have know at all until I noticed one on the glass. Everytime I thought I was rid of them I'd notice a huge one the next day. watch for eggs on your glass. They look like tiny pearls in a spiral pattern.

It took several freshwater dips and weeks of hunting but I think I'n clean now.

Lost my Eagle Eye Zoas in the process ... They were my favorite.

Anyone have any they can part with?

I have a purple torch with green tips (2 heads + several buds) I can give in return.

 

[Sullyman]

This fish looks for them all day long, Razor or Sea Grass wrasse.
Matt at Sho Tank got me this one

 

[Pufferpunk]

I was told that the seagrass will eat nothing but nudis & will starve when there are no more.

 

[hansnfrans]

No ma'am. Those sea grass wrasses are like all the other wrasses.....they are lil' piggies. All the ones that FISHMAN got were eatin'. John fed mine (he's still holding it for me) some krill and the thing attacked it! The only problem with these fish is that they are hard to come by. Like Sullyman said, maybe ask Matt at Sho Tanks if he can get ya one.

 

[Pufferpunk]

And they'll eat all my nudies w/o having to dip everything?

 

[Sullyman]

Jeni, the dipping is always the best way, but this fish is a nudi killer/eater. So if something gets by the dipping, it won't last long.
It will eat frozen food and Nori, too, so don't be afraid it will starve. Matt can get the right fish, I've seen people with green Coris wrasses in their tanks, not the same fish.
The only downsides, you may find your zoos flipped by the fish as it hunts for prey, and it's a wrasse so it could jump.

 

[Pufferpunk]

I think what I'll do then, is wait till after vacation (leaving Friday for a dive trip in the Caymans), when the new tank is set up (w/screening in the back, to prevent jumping wrasses), I will dip everything before moving into the new tank & add a wrassse a week later, to eat what ever hatches in there.

 

[hansnfrans]

Speaking of flippin' stuff over....FISHMAN was telling me that my Sea Grass Wrasse has been picking up my Acro frags and putting them in a pile. So you may want to make sure your corals are secured if you do decide to get one.

What do you mean by "screening in the back"? Do you mean that you are only going to put eggcrate over the back part of the tank b/c the front and the two sides will be surrounded by the tank's canopy???

 

[Pufferpunk]

What do you mean by "screening in the back"? Do you mean that you are only going to put eggcrate over the back part of the tank b/c the front and the two sides will be surrounded by the tank's canopy???

You got it! But I think I'll use nylon screening material.

 

[hansnfrans]

I considered doing this on my tank, so as not to obstruct the lighting but after hearing about wrasses jumping out of the tank and landing on the eggcrate/screen I changed my mind. You may end up having a "fish fry". Some of those wrasses are pretty expensive.