No pics but I have tiny like maybe 4 millimeters max white Nudis eating my sps. They have lots of "arms" or apendages to make them blend but they are deffinately eating my pieces. I used 2 dips and a peroxide dip but somehow they got in my system. Not touching my Monti's just acros for now. I previously found 1 then another and just now found 3 on 1 coral and what most certainly are eggs.
Tiny white Nudi's eating SPS. HELP
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trueblackpercula
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+1 on the above
So far I have not founde anymore of these little buggers. The tricolor I first saw one on has almost completely healed up. I just lost a frag that I have had for months but never saw one in it. The frag I found the 3 on along with the eggs seems it may make a recovery but I dipped it in an extremely high concentration so who knows and I have another frag that is all of the sudden losing tissue but don't see anything on it. All the other 20 or so pieces seem fine for now.
XaznKewLguyX
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Dipping corals works wonders..
roberto_lopes
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Potassium permanganate dip at 50 mg/l for 30 min kilss the adults AND the eggs.
Constrictor6090
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I've seen these before too. They are not monti eating nudies but look very similar to them. This may not be what you have and you may have the monti's but in know there's a new type I've been seeing lately. They stay a lot smaller and have more of a grayish/brown tint to them like you can see their organs. They'll start by eating the base edges of sps and lay eggs. Then the babies will eat the frag/colony once they hatch. I hadn't ever seen these until the beginning of this year. Bayer insecticide works amazing just like it does on monti eating nudies.
biggles
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Out of hundreds of wild acro pieces i have bought over the years i've never seen AEFW or red bugs or any other acro pest on anything other than one colony i got that had tiny pale cream/white nudis at the base about 1/8" or 2-3mm long. I noticed them when i had a close inspection prior to adding to the tank so i put it in the frag tank.
Within a week they were on 3-4 pieces and i could now see eggs on the base of the original piece. The nudis actively consume base tissue and leave bare skeleton behind. I killed the frag tank and trashed about 25 acro frags and 4-5 colonies after discovering eggs on 5-6 pieces and lots more nudis spreading after another couple of weeks. I had zero montis in my systems but these little guys were having a ball. I've never seen a monti nudi up close but i can assure everyone that there is a tiny white nudi that targets acros.
Within a week they were on 3-4 pieces and i could now see eggs on the base of the original piece. The nudis actively consume base tissue and leave bare skeleton behind. I killed the frag tank and trashed about 25 acro frags and 4-5 colonies after discovering eggs on 5-6 pieces and lots more nudis spreading after another couple of weeks. I had zero montis in my systems but these little guys were having a ball. I've never seen a monti nudi up close but i can assure everyone that there is a tiny white nudi that targets acros.
What's the best dip for them? Inn my experience Bayer didn't do any thing to them.
