****For all those who got zoos from me,please read****

[Veng68]

Originally Posted by Jack

No, those nudi's definatly eat zooanthids and it's nice that Kuatto let everyone know. An Iodine dip works well too without any visible harm to the zoo's, IME.

Get them while you can.

What concentration of iodine would you use?

Cheers,
Vic [veng68]

[golden69_ca]

i guess i better not take the articals in the coral mag for truth becouse they had a cool artical on these nudi's as the natural aptasia preditor and people over in germany where breading them . id still like a couple if any one has some

[Funky_Fish14]

There are different types of nudibranches. The ones that eat aiptasias are Berghias(sp?). The ones that eat zoos are different, Lettuce Nudibranches eat algae, some other types eat sponges. Some are coldwater species.

Chris

[Jack]

Originally Posted by Veng68

What concentration of iodine would you use?

Cheers,
Vic [veng68]

I do 5-10 drops of Lugol's per Liter of water depending on the sensitivity of the coral I'm dipping. Zoo's can be dipped for 10-20 min with the higher concentration without any major stress, IME.

[Jack]

Originally Posted by Funky_Fish14

There are different types of nudibranches. The ones that eat aiptasias are Berghias(sp?). The ones that eat zoos are different, Lettuce Nudibranches eat algae, some other types eat sponges. Some are coldwater species.

Chris

Chris has it right...

Here's some info from Eric's personal adventure with them:

http://www.reefs.org/library/article/e_borneman.html

[kuatto]

I think the best thing we can to do is to do a dip "BEFORE" putting any new coral into our tanks.This is good for alot of nasty hitchhikers we don't want.A few minutes of work saves a lot of heart ache later.I've searched for days on the net for pics of the zoo eating nudi and they all come up the same,so there is no saving these guys,they are terminated on site

[medic_eva]

killed 3 today, and 2 yesterday... man am i glad i checked the posts. been busy lately, haven't been watching my tank as closely. found 3 on the little frag i got from ya, and 2 on one from AI. yet, i haven't seen any in a month... weird... maybe i just didn't see them cuz they hatched recently or something. noooo idea. thanks for the warning, i don't think they are from you though. i had this problem too when i bought mine from AI, guess i didn't dip it well enough.

thanks!!!

eva

[Funky_Fish14]

One thing, the Nudis are most likely from your AI colonies/frags because they get the wild shipments in. Like I said I got two from there.

Also to everyone, do NOT "sqash" the nudibranches, leave them full body.

Chris