Zoa Eatting Nudibranches!

[Cole_lol]

Hey all,

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So, I have a Zoa Eating Nudibranch issue... I have tried the natural route with two wrasses and the to my knowledge they have not even touched any of them from just watching...(two 6 lines)

My next plan of action is using flatworm exit. I have read that it will do a number on them...

But I really don’t want to it in my whole tank...

My question on this is can I take all the Zoas out of my display and place them in a 10 gallon tank and treat them that way as a quarantine..

With that being said would a small 2 t5 light fixture be enough to supplement light for zoas and will the nudibranches die by not having any zoas to eat? Any ideas how long the life cycle of a nudibranch is with little or no zoas to eat? I know that the flatworm exit takes a few doses to totaly kill all the nudibranches since it will not kill the eggs....

Any other suggestions other then flatworm exit or maybe a different fish to eat the zoas?

I was reading that Malachite Green could be an option as I have read it can do a number on the eggs too. Anyone ever had any luck this route?

They are nasty little buggers is all I can say!

Thanks for all the help!
Cole

 

[650-IS350]

Yellow Coris...

FWE in a separate tank.. quarantine for a couple weeks, manual removal and scraping off egg masses as you continuously check the colonies. Dips as well.

 

[lluv24]

If you can take the zoos out I would just make water with a type of coral dip. Let them stay in there for 15-20 min. It worked for me!!!!!

 

[turok]

I had to start over, flatworm exit, water changes... crashed my system.
I would take everything out that you want to keep into quarantine.
And Exit the tank.

 

[Exxotic]

If you can take the zoanthids out, dip them in Revive (coral dip) for 4-5 minutes and turkey baste the colony. Any nudibranchs on them will come off, and if eggs hatch then you do a dip once a week for 3-4 weeks and you shouldnt have any problems with them after that. Good luck!!!

Any coral dip should work, i personally like Revive.

 

[LittleFish2012]

Dip with hydrogen peroxide also works, and give zoas much less stress.

 

[tntdsol]

I use coral RX. It works great. Should be able to pick it up at any LFS. I took my zoas out of the tank put them in a 5 gallon bucket with coral RX for 5-10 minutes. Then use magnifying glass, flash light and tweezers to pick all the eggs I could find off. I then continued to dip them once a week for 4 weeks repeating the process.

 

[A. Grandis]

I had to start over, flatworm exit, water changes... crashed my system.
I would take everything out that you want to keep into quarantine.
And Exit the tank.

If Flatworm Exit crashed your tank it wouldn't be the way to do, right?
Some of this stuff can really cause major disasters on the filtration system.
And it could stay for long time in the system, provoking other side effects for years to come.
Hope you tank got better now!

Grandis.

 

[A. Grandis]

Does all the dips above work for the eggs too?

Grandis.

 

[pgr11]

I had them and flatworm solution worked perfectly for me. Dosed exactly as the instructions said and then did a WC dosed 4 days later again no more nudi's. All corals and fish were fine no effects except dead nudis. I also did a dip in revive of all rocks with zoas.

 

[zoafarm]

Had a big problem myself a couple of months ago, and was losing zoas like crazy. After a lot of research, advice, and work; I finally got rid of them.

Removing the zoas will probably not work. The little buggers will hang out in your rock, and revisit your zoas when you put them back. Tried it.

Here's how I finally got rid of them.

1. I took the ones I could get out and dipped them in Lugols (per instructions). During the dip I shook them briskly. Next, I transferred them to a bucket of tank water and individually inspected each one for eggs and removed with tweezers.

2. For the ones I couldn't remove, I used a turkey baster to suck out the ones I could find and removed eggs with the tweezers.

3. Finally, I added a 'Yellow Coris' Wrasse.

I inspected ever day, and repeated steps 1 or 2 for about a week as necessary (once maybe twice). By the second week, I was clean and I haven't seen one since. But my Yellow Coris is always searching.

Tank Size: 72 Gal

Hope this helps...I know they can be frustrating. Best of luck!

 

[zoafarm]

Double post

 

[turok]

If Flatworm Exit crashed your tank it wouldn't be the way to do, right?
Some of this stuff can really cause major disasters on the filtration system.
And it could stay for long time in the system, provoking other side effects for years to come.
Hope you tank got better now!

Grandis.

trying to keep parameter stable.
bought calcuim reactor and phosphate reactor.
went back to hqi and t5

 

[A. Grandis]

Those couldn't be the reasons for the crash.
I mean, a calcium reactor and phosphate reactor won't prevent any crash, if you have the wrong chemistry taking place.
Going back to MH also won't help in that case either.
I hope you know all that.

Good luck!

Gradis.