Ricordea eating predator

[karimwassef]

I do that, but my rocks have lots of surface texture (manmade) and they get their foot deep in a groove and I have to use a scalpel to get under there and then scrape the rest... it's time consuming and I use superglue over the remaining area to avoid their recovery (which is amazing).

 

[slief]

I do that, but my rocks have lots of surface texture (manmade) and they get their foot deep in a groove and I have to use a scalpel to get under there and then scrape the rest... it's time consuming and I use superglue over the remaining area to avoid their recovery (which is amazing).

Unfortunately that is probably your best bet. You can try injecting them with boiling hot water before peeling them.

 

[karimwassef]

I'll just use hydrochloric acid in a syringe at the base... melt them off the rock

I have who got inside my acropora branches .. INSIDE.

I now have to frag the whole colony

 

[suta4242]

There are butterflys that specialise in soft corals in the wild, I would try one of these. Problem is, they also will often eat other food. Depending on what and how you feed, this could distract them from their mission.

Other problem if the tank is large, the fish could graze a bit here and there, encouraging wounded corals to release toxins that may affect your SPS. If the tank is truly large maybe a large angel with a taste for softys could work.

HTH. :wave:

 

[karimwassef]

Which angels specialize in softies only?

 

[victorcan]

Man I had a Emperor Angel I just traded into the fish store.. Didn't mess with my SPS too bad but anything soft even leathers were don in minuets.. He was large 6-7" beast named Brutis.. I miss the hell outta him but he had to go with my expanding mixed reef.. But maybe the store I sold him to would ship him? He'd solve your problem in a matter of 2-3 days clean.....

 

[karimwassef]

Would he eat LPS like elegance or favia or lobo?

 

[victorcan]

Would he eat LPS like elegance or favia or lobo?

probably he didn't eat spa for the most part but nipped.. everything else was fair game lol

 

[ThRoewer]

I know that there are some highly specialized nudibranches and even hard shelled snails that have very specific hosts they feed on. Most I know about are "parasites" of zoas and certain SPS, but there is very likely also one that feeds of mushrooms. The difficulty is to get them. Your best bet would probably be contacting a wholesaler about this. They should have come across pretty much every parasite corals, inverts and fish might come with.
One of the first places I would contact would be Diver's Den (you would need to get a hold of one of their biologists.)
Next best would probably be Quality Marine.

There are also some less specific carnivorous snails that may work to some degree. Certain Cowries may work as they are known to feed of anemones and soft-corals. The issue with them is that they are bulldozers who might break a few of the more fragile corals. Due to their size they may also have problems getting everywhere.

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