What is this? A Nudi?

[XtremeFromHell]

I was moving a small rock of zoas and i noticed something crawling around it and im not sure what it is. Keep it or kill it?

 

[XtremeFromHell]

ok, i just googled, i think i will flush away now.

 

[mbingha]

Flush it, and be on the look out for more... check out a thread about half way down this forum, and it'll link you to some pictures of those nudi's and their eggs.

EDIT: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1587025

There's the link.

 

[XtremeFromHell]

Ok, I am going to do a dip cause now i see some white, but i believe it may be sand because i had it on the sand bed, can this stuff be easily taken care of if placed in a area with good amount of flow?

 

[Dave VG]

Pull out what you can and look for eggs and manually remove them. Dip dip dip all your zoas.

 

[reefnjunkie]

check your tank with lights out using a flashlight, usually where there is one there are more and if you see zoas not opening my guess is you will see those buggers near

Good luck-they reallysuck, and a good practice is to dip everything you add to your tank

 

[XtremeFromHell]

yeah, i found another crawling on the glass, i took it out. I recently had to rocks of zoas close up and now i know why! i have another 10 gallon tank i set up and had been running and cycled but i never put a heater in it. I plan to use it as a QT so im going to eventualy dip all and place in that tank.

 

[Dave VG]

Good plan. Kill those little ba$t^ards. Time to go hunting. Pull the zoas out of the tank and run your finger over the colonies to get them to close and like i said above look for more adults and there eggs. Good luck and keep us posted.

 

[TampaSnooker]

Freshwater dips (same temp, pH and dechlorinated) with about 5 drops per quart Lugols Iodine are good for killing adults. While treating, look at EVERY polyp when closed up for the eggs. They are in little white spirals. Use a turkey baster to clean up the colonies, clear debri and irritate the polyps into closing. Use an exacto knife or razor to simply remove every polyp with eggs on them. You may need to repeat the process again. I think that the eggs take 11 days to hatch, but that's hearsay. Sounds like a lot of work but will be worth it. Zoa nudis can wipe you out if untreated. Heliocoris wrasses are helpful biological control.

 

[Foundnemo611]

The biggest problem is finding and killing the eggs. I have a sixline wrasse , Green Coris, and Yellow coris to aid in the fight. Also I find Coral RX works very well in killing the adults and many other pests. Good Luck!! They are a royal pain to eliminate. I was told flatworm exit works the best in killing them, nut personally I never use it

 

[XtremeFromHell]

Oh boy, I keep finding them and zoas are still closed up. I'm waiting on my QT tank is ready, I gotta drop the salinity so that I can transfer my Zoas there. I will treat them and monitor them from that tank rather than my main tank, I'll update as I go along with pics.

 

[Murphs205]

DIP ASAP ..get a yellow coris wrasse as well , nice looking fish and they will eat them.

 

[TampaSnooker]

They are probably hiding in your rocks. Removing the colonies to another tank where they are easier to treat will help. You could probably bait out any remaining nudis after setting up the QT by putting a small colony back into the tank overnight from time to time and removing it and dipping to remove any nudis.
The wrasses mentioned often work well, but sometimes they just don't want to eat that meal. Be aware that being wrasses, they will be flipping the rocks and frags over all the time looking for food. Might be a good idea to glue the smaller pieces to a piece of tile while in QT. It's heavy and doesn't have any hiding places for the pests. For that matter, you might glue to tiles in your tank if you have space. It'll reduce the chances that they hide in the rocks if they have to travel over exposed surfaces.

 

[SnapDragon]

As far as wrasses are concerned, get the Yellow Coris wrasse and not the others. Like mentioned above wrasses will generally tip everything over hunting for stuff.

I haven't ever had a yellow coris wrasse turn any of my frags over. They also do a good job as far as maintenance, and look awesome.