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zoa eating nudi's
basically, does any one have a method for either a tank treatment, or a natural preditor? read that wrasses are hit or miss, also read about flat worm exit but that would meen alot of snails to hunt down meaning close to a teardown. Dips would be difficult as alot of my zoa colonies are on huge rocks.
any ideas are welcome but prefer hands on experience with them. |
We've had great success treating nudis with PraziPro and it is somewhat reef safe.
Cheers, Paul |
hmm define somewhat reefsafe? quick read seems like its fairly toxic. not for use in fish food?
have you used it in a mixed reef set-up without problems? |
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good link!! thanks!!
sounds promising! |
If your looking for a more natural option, read below but to completely remove them from the tank its imperative to inspect every zoa for the egg sacks. I found that yellow and purple corris wrasses worked very well.
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only because of the availability of the yellow coris here in town i was planning on a 6-line wrasse tomorrow.
thanks for the help Levi!! I have had 2 zoa colonies dissolve down to nothing but thats been over the course of 1 1/2 yrs so i ruled out nudis previously. Now its got me woundering!! what is the differences between zoas and palys in a nudis eyes? as quoted above? keeping palys as a pro-active measure?? |
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I use a melanarus wrasse . It is always hunting and picking at the zoas and other corals for food.
http://www.themarinecenter.com/fish/...lanuruswrasse/ I alos dip all my zoas when I get them an expect them for eggs. I use the salt water they came in and 5 drops of coralRX. It kills all inverts and nudis that are on the frags and colonies. I have a friend who swares by flat worm exit. Same thing adds it to the water they came in. http://coralrx.com/ If you can remove your colonies and dip them and expect them I would. Chris |
Melanarus and Leopard wrasses for me. Two very pretty wrasses that are extremely hard workers :biggrin:
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