Where did the skirts go on these???

hot4teacher

hot4teacher

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I noticed a few days the skirts had totally disappeared off of these and they have not returned. This small group of missing skirts had closed for a couple of days, but now appear open, but no skirts!

Any ideas?

missingskirt.jpg


Dana
 
looks to me like they are getting stung by something; the skirts are there, just deflated.
 
Pods are eating them. Get a flash light and look at the zoo after your light has been out for a couple of hours. You will see the little guys. When the pods start to run low on food they start going for the zoo skirts.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8122853#post8122853 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jayreefer
Pods are eating them. Get a flash light and look at the zoo after your light has been out for a couple of hours. You will see the little guys. When the pods start to run low on food they start going for the zoo skirts.
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really? pods? i have never heard this before....
 
Do a search. I have mentioned it before. I have had It happen first hand. It didn't slow down until I added a mandarin goby and four line wrasse.
 
That is very interesting you mentioned the pods, because in the last few weeks, I've had an explosion of the larger size pod population. I always have a bunch in the filter sock when I change it every few days.

I have a 6 line, but I guess I need to make it clear to him what my expectations are. No soup for him!

Dana
 
I am having the same problem. Although in addition to skirts being eaten, they will eat almost the entire polyp, and they will also attack the base of healthy polyps until it's so thin the polyp will actually pop off. My sixline keeps them in check during the day, but at night they swarm like piranhas!

Any way to keep the pods in check at night too??


In this pic, not only is the skirt being eaten, but the entire polyp is mostly gone.

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very interesting. i had the same thing happen to about 5 polyps of PRPE a couple of weeks ago. the skirts were completely eaten off. they werent curled up or deflated, they were completely gone.

i knew i didnt have any bristle worms, or inverts large enough to cause that kind of damage. never thought about pods being the issue.
 
do bristleworms eat zoos?

I just got a six line wrasse last week to eat some..but I've been having zoo issues in my 46 gallon for 4 months now...and have been trying to figure out the problem.... the zoos just keep dying off or disappearing ... and no..I don't have nudi's ..heh
 
maybe i should have been more clear in my statement, it should have read...

"i knew i didnt have any LARGE bristle worms..."

i wouldnt put it past any bristle worm over 1ft long to eat any softies. in fact, i've read stories where larger bristle worms over a foot or larger are known to clean out ricordia colonies.

btw...if you want to get rid of bristle worms, coral banded shrimp are excellent hunters and will clean them out in no time.
 
Hey surf. They seem to go for my pe's more than any. And it was pods. I interduced 4 Six lines to my No fish system all at once. They seemed to like the $$$$ in my tank the best. The 6 lines Thinned them down bunchscrazy1: crazy1 A sea grass wrasse will not touch them
 
Uh oh..next time I find the 6-7 incher in my tank..I'll net him and get him out... I found him once...scared the crap out of me...but I didn't have a net handy at the time... I will look for him tomorrow...
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8125032#post8125032 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by czieler
Uh oh..next time I find the 6-7 incher in my tank..I'll net him and get him out... I found him once...scared the crap out of me...but I didn't have a net handy at the time... I will look for him tomorrow...
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doubtfully you'll get it out in one piece. they break apart easily, and can reproduce like star fish (i think). better to put something in there to eat it. i know i would be uncomfortable knowing one over 6inches in any of my tanks.
 
What can eat one that big? My LFS said the six line wrass will only get the small ones.

I have a Fire Shrimp in there...will a coral banded shrimp do ok with him?

Is there another fish that would work in a 46 gallon that can eat big ones...that will co-exist w/ a maroon, coral beauty, and sixline?
 
coral banded shrimps will pick them apart into pieces, even if its too big to eat in one setting.

no idea about a fire shrimp. or other fish other than wrasses that will eat them.
 
People people! If a bristleworm is eating a zoanthid it's because it's already dead or damn close to it. Bristleworms are a good thing, even the big ones.
 
I am still amazed that it could even possibly be pods! I thought it was odd it only occured in one spot in the tank, but I see another group of zoos being attacked.

Dana
 
wow i have a manderin, and a big colony of zoo's i just introduced, but i got all the pods out of it when i did the zoo dip, is there a way to appease the pods so they dont go after my zoo's, my manderin sleeps at night so i either need them to stay away at night of get a night time guard for my zoo's?
 
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