Nudibranchs No More

"FWIW, my possum wrasse has been consuming my nudi's, but just enough to keep the numbers really low. I'll give the sea grass wrasse a whirl and see what it can do."


So which is it? The possum wrasse or the seagrass wrasse is the great nudi hunter? Exactly! LOL This is the reason while I'll wait to see if more people can have the same success. I don't want to loose the great little four line wrasse I have in there now.....along with all of my snails. I'm not trying to rain on anyones parade, but I think people shouldn't just jump the gun because of what happened with one wrasse.
 
Milhouse,
MUCHO has taken alot of time and effort to help all of us find a cure for the nudibranch problem. He did say that the rest of us need to contribe our experiences.
So why don't you get off your a** , quit whinning and help.
GreshamH has pointed out another fish that may help with the problem.
If you have something better, lets hear it.
 
I don't think anyone is jumping the gun, Mucho said check out what I am doing, please if you have nudi's in your tank, give this a try and see if it was just a total fluke, or if we have a species that can help us kill off this pest. If you are worried about your snails, don't get the fish. This is akin to going oh no what about my softy corals, when someone says a CBB might help with the aipstasia infestation. To me, the loss of snails versus the loss of beautiful zoos seems like a pretty fair tradeoff!
 
Yah, a few snails, or your pretty zoa's, I say let em eat snails :D

I don't think the possum will help as good as the Sea Grass Wrasse. The possum gets a few, but he hunts pods mainly. The Sea Grass Wrasse lives in an environment that has tons of different nudi's/slugs for it to feed on. It makes total sense just looking at it's habitat that it'll do a better job. The Sea Grass Wrasse also goes by Green Dragon Wrasse for those whom aren't having any luck finding the Sea Grass Wrasse.
 
Woah, woah, woah. Some of you need to stop getting your panties in a bunch(Mfinn). You guys can do whatever you want, I couldn't care less. I'm just saying that I hope a lot of people don't run out and risk everything trying to get one of these. Especially since there will certainly be a lot of "enterprising" people upping the price if they see the demand go up. Is this a cure? Nope, not right now. Who knows if anyone can reproduce these results. Could it be? Sure as hell could. But my point is I'm not going to run out to try it, lol. A lot of people have had luck with certain scooter blennies eating flatworms. But if I get flatworms in my tank, I'm not going to run out and get one and just hope it works. I'm not going to give up the idea of having snails in my tank, or have to get rid of a wrasse I have in there now. If you guys want to do it, go for it. Just because I don't see this as the second coming of Christ doesn't mean I don't appreciate him posting this. I do appreciate it. I just wish it had been something other than a fish :)

"So why don't you get off your a** , quit whinning and help."

Grow up! I'm not whining at all. Take care :)
 
Hey Mucho-

Thanks for you continued effort to help with the problems that affect our zoo tanks and sharing your findings - There are quite a few of us that appreciate the time and effort you put into this hobby. Please keep us informed so we can also make informed decisions based on your findings.

Thanks again Dee
 
soooooooooooo, since i'm too lazy to google this wrasse....how large do they get? i've got nano's and since gresham said they're called 'green dragon wrasses' as well, i have the feeling that they get large. mmm....help please? :D
 
***Update***

As I stated in the above thread, this fish is readily available, it's not a rare fish at all. Simply make a request through your LFS. I will have 3 more by this weekend and I will put them through thier paces as I did with Mikey.

Has anyone purchsed one this week? If so, did you have the same results? I really would like to know ASAP. I only had a small frag with the Monti. Nudis and those are of a great concern to me. Waiting to hear from each of you, good luck.

Mucho

PS. I noticed now that he is darting down in between rocks looking for something, can't really see what. Since I no longer have nudis, and every single polyp in my tank is fully expanded, I'm assuming it's for more food. Also, there is one spot, at sand level, that he keeps burrowing into. Whenever I cover it up, he goes back to that one spot to burrow a single hole the diameter of a quarter. BTW, I have tried several foods, flake, frozen etc and he consumes them all.
 
awesome, thanks gresham(though you made me lose my laziness and find out how large 15cm is...it's just under 6 six inches! awesome...it can fit in a nano....but i figure i would have to trade him out after a bit.
 
Anyone else picked up these fish yet? I'm eager to learn more, anyone know if that lovely brilliant green coloring is temporary or not?

This may just be my QT tank/frag growout tank permanent resident hehe
 
A store in my area found two of them. However they were alot bigger than what I wanted. They were 6" plus. But they were nearly identical to this picture. They said they would look for smaller ones.

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This thread is a life saver! I just picked off about 10 nudi's in the past 2 nights from my clove polyps and toadstool. They really worm their way into the cloves at night. What a pain! I'm going to have to take a look at my LFS today and see if they have one of these cool guys. Thanks Mucho!!!!!!!!
 
It seems that it would be much easier to replace my shirmp and Nassarius than dip EVERYTHING in my tank, and possibly still not get rid of them. I discovered Monti. munchers about two months ago, and while I HOPE that sucking them up with a pippet and brushing the eggs off has done the trick eradicating them, I am definatley going to find one of these fish.
With & shrimp and Fairy wrasses, I should be a good case study in aggression.

And MUCHO, thanks for posing your findings.
 
I was able to find one here in Sacramento at O Street Aquarium that is identical to Mucho's wrasse. It was priced at $19.99, and I have it in a quarantine tank. I don't have any monti nudi problems, but I plan on adding the wrasse to my new 300 once I start adding livestock in another month or so.

Marc
 
Well i have no doubt that a fish would be a predator of nudi's. All i heard that they were too leathel to eat. LOL! (Which i think is pretty funny since i am not dead yet.) I am waiting to see results as well. I wanted to thank mucho for posting his findings, he could have easily just kept it to himself.
I didnt hear anybody claim it was the second coming of christ, But i have never had a problem with nudi's, and the need for this fish right now for me is not there. A good quarentine is the best friend your reef could have.
 
Ooooooooohhhhhh Thank you MUCHO! You have given me the best B-day present now I just need to get my hands on one. My poor prized collection of zoanthids has been terribly trashed by these da@* nudis and I have been dipping and I too have a freakin turkey baster surgically attached to my hand and feel as though I am getting nowhere. I have been close to throwing in the towel and giving up my tank it has been so frustrating. I will try to get a wrasse asap, just pulled out 6 nudi's from a 3 inch rock last night. I will post my progress so we can truly see if this will work for everyone I am desperate to get rid of these bast%$#@! Thank you again for all of your hard work and very honest and clear posts with great information.:thumbsup:
 
So has anyone found one of these fish from an online vendor?

I appear to be NF (nudi free) at the moment after a two week move of all my zoa's to a QT tank with every other day dips and plucks of egg sacks, but I still would like to have one of these fish in the future and have had no luck securing one locally.
thanks,
-dm
 
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