zoa eating copepod claims
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My 8" chevron and my 5" PB. the chevron hasnt actually hit him that i have seen, but the PBT has several times that i have seen. the coris is 3" or so........
its not a very fair fight in any regard. I put a mirror up to the side of the tank to catch the PBT's attention and it seems to have helped......i didnt think about it or I should have done that before the lights came on this morning.
th fish is defintely hurt....i just hope not too bad, hope it stops, and he can overcome it
its pretty hard to be eating any pods when youre looking over your shoulder for those two
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angry.clownfish
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I KNEW IT!:mad2: this is my post from 08/04/2005
"shaggydoo541, I'd like to add that I've been keeping zoas and palys since the start of my tank which is more than a couple of years ago, I have large colonies if zoas that seem to do extremely well and then over night, more than half shrink up and die, this process repeats itself and for the life of me I can't seem to find out whats causing this. some colonies seem to to fine 100% of the time but the others display the same symptoms. recently I've been looking for nudi's but what i saw really caused me concerns. copods eating my zoas. i've been watching them for a few nights now and they ARE eating my zoas. my zoas also show signs bite marks if you will. I know people have said they don't eat live and healty zoas but this happens over night that my zoas go from healty to barely alive. I recently bought a sixline wrasse to keep the copods in check but i fear he won't be able to keep up, also all the big copods seem to hide during the day and the sixline sleeps at night so I'm kinda at a loss. I need help also. "
BTW... I have a new colony that is being attacked.. I lost my sixline a few months ago and so I got a mandrine dragonet. Are these any good at keeping the pods population under control or should I consider another sixline?
Thanks in advance
"shaggydoo541, I'd like to add that I've been keeping zoas and palys since the start of my tank which is more than a couple of years ago, I have large colonies if zoas that seem to do extremely well and then over night, more than half shrink up and die, this process repeats itself and for the life of me I can't seem to find out whats causing this. some colonies seem to to fine 100% of the time but the others display the same symptoms. recently I've been looking for nudi's but what i saw really caused me concerns. copods eating my zoas. i've been watching them for a few nights now and they ARE eating my zoas. my zoas also show signs bite marks if you will. I know people have said they don't eat live and healty zoas but this happens over night that my zoas go from healty to barely alive. I recently bought a sixline wrasse to keep the copods in check but i fear he won't be able to keep up, also all the big copods seem to hide during the day and the sixline sleeps at night so I'm kinda at a loss. I need help also. "
BTW... I have a new colony that is being attacked.. I lost my sixline a few months ago and so I got a mandrine dragonet. Are these any good at keeping the pods population under control or should I consider another sixline?
Thanks in advance
650-IS350
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Mandarins have small mouths.. meaning only smaller ampipods and pods..
Got get a yellow coris, green sea grass, leopards , any fairy/flasher type wrasses can help. I had 8-9 wrasses in my 100 ( they decimated the ampipods in no time ) but since either selling , trading, some dying.. the Large ampipod population has come back.
My old way now of assuring a NO ampipod tank is on my new 37 cube , I'm only going with base rock. NONE of my current live rock will go into the new tank to ensure that none of these bastards get in. Plus all corals will be throughly dipped to wipe out any hiding pods/ampipods. Wrasses can do damage to the pod population during the day but can't touch them at night. Till this day, no one knows of a fish to get to hunt at night for pods.
Got get a yellow coris, green sea grass, leopards , any fairy/flasher type wrasses can help. I had 8-9 wrasses in my 100 ( they decimated the ampipods in no time ) but since either selling , trading, some dying.. the Large ampipod population has come back.
My old way now of assuring a NO ampipod tank is on my new 37 cube , I'm only going with base rock. NONE of my current live rock will go into the new tank to ensure that none of these bastards get in. Plus all corals will be throughly dipped to wipe out any hiding pods/ampipods. Wrasses can do damage to the pod population during the day but can't touch them at night. Till this day, no one knows of a fish to get to hunt at night for pods.
My yellow coris is out and about doing his thing this morning........hes even concentrating in the side of the tank that I keep my polyps
He has what looks like a big shiner across the side of his body, but besides dirty looks from the pb..........nobody is even really chasing him anymore.
He has what looks like a big shiner across the side of his body, but besides dirty looks from the pb..........nobody is even really chasing him anymore.
What do you all think of adding a sixline as well??
I only ask becasue there is one local of decent size Im thinking of picking up and throwing in the same 225 gallon tank.
think they will get along?? Or at least think the yellow coris wont get killed??
I think it will be ok....just looking for confirmation.
I only ask becasue there is one local of decent size Im thinking of picking up and throwing in the same 225 gallon tank.
think they will get along?? Or at least think the yellow coris wont get killed??
I think it will be ok....just looking for confirmation.
angry.clownfish
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my palys are pretty much gone now, just a a couple that wants to open, I've fragged them in hopes they will survive. I was able to do a fresh water dip and got some of these guys that I believe are responsible for my palys demise. poor photo but here's what they look like. if i stretch them out, they are 1/4 inches!
stoneroller
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Hsssssss! That's what mine look like too.
angry.clownfish
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thats it!, my yellow coris with MIA after the first night and now I'm searching for a replacement.
I want someone with the skills and means to prove that this is a different critter than the ones that look EXACTLY the same.
I think it was already stated in this thread or soemwhere I read recently, but its gotta be a different type. How else could you explain seeing these things for years with no ill effects, then all of a suddent they go rogue on us?? I dont think thats very likely.
I think it was already stated in this thread or soemwhere I read recently, but its gotta be a different type. How else could you explain seeing these things for years with no ill effects, then all of a suddent they go rogue on us?? I dont think thats very likely.
650-IS350
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Fly guy for some reason that other dirty looking one looks like a zoa spider, def a zoa assasin..
http://www.zoaid.com/index.php?module=Gallery2&g2_itemId=396
http://www.zoaid.com/index.php?module=Gallery2&g2_itemId=384
http://www.zoaid.com/index.php?module=Gallery2&g2_itemId=396
http://www.zoaid.com/index.php?module=Gallery2&g2_itemId=384
Runfrumu
Hi
I had some yellow zoas with the long skirts that were slowing disapearing. They would one by one close up, then wither away and die. This happened for a week and I went from 12 to 9 of them, so I started watching at night, and sure enough 2 coepods (thought were nudi's at the time, Im a noob) were coming out, and attacking the zoas. These werent tiny coepods, but where just a little bigger than a brine shrimp. I gave the rock with the zoa's a pods on it a quick freshwater dip, watched the pods fall off and die, and now I back up to 13 of the yellows.
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