Zoa Bugs

[no_bs]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

Nudibranches that are eating zoanthids are usualy white

Funny, have never seen white ones. Only these.


Dipps are good, but not 100%. A Yellow and a halicouris wrasses are what saved our zoo's. Been over a year now and no nudi's.

[Seamazter]

I love my yellow wrasse, he even takes out those zoa snails (sundial)

[no_bs]

Originally Posted by Seamazter

I love my yellow wrasse, he even takes out those zoa snails (sundial)

Yeah awesome sight. Only ever got to see our halicoris take down a sundial once. What voracious feeder they are.

[daniella3d]

You're right, I was mixing them up with monti eating nudi. They are more brownish although I never had any so never saw one in person.

I guess the dip does not kill the eggs. Fish are usualy a hit or miss kind of thing. For exemple, my mandarins never ate any flatworms even though some people report theirs were eating flatworms. My copperband never eat any aiptasia at all..not even the smaller ones. So buying a fish just for the purpose of eating something might not be best as it might not touch the thing at all.

I had a yellow wrasse and also a checkerboard and none ate the snail or worms. They did not do a good job on amphipods either because they were burried in the sand at night while the amphipods were out munching on zoanthids.

Originally Posted by no_bs

Funny, have never seen white ones. Only these.
Dipps are good, but not 100%. A Yellow and a halicouris wrasses are what saved our zoo's. Been over a year now and no nudi's.

[martinmcnally]

Originally Posted by no_bs

Funny, have never seen white ones. Only these.


Dipps are good, but not 100%. A Yellow and a halicouris wrasses are what saved our zoo's. Been over a year now and no nudi's.

This is exactly what they are. Picked up a yellow wrasse today. You can see which colony they are attaching because it all closes up even if there is just one in there. So I go in with the turkey baser and suck it out of there. Removed about 30 so far.

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by no_bs

Funny, have never seen white ones. Only these.

What exactly are those and how big are they?

[Nano]

Originally Posted by Beverly

What exactly are those and how big are they?

nudibranches they eat zoanthids (little pests) They are about the size of a... hmm whats a good reference.. they're small lol really small

[no_bs]

Originally Posted by Beverly

What exactly are those and how big are they?

Well found this specimen many years ago, it was 3/8" . The only reason i found him was, i started using an led light to look through the tank at night. The things i saw, then that. It glowed, then if found more. Then i got my wrasses and haven't looked back. Trials and tribulation's of this hobby.

[martinmcnally]

Not sure what they are called. Some kind of sea slug. The biggest one I pulled out so far was about 8mm long.

[no_bs]

They are nudibranches. Bad little buggers.