Zoa Bugs

[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.

[reefwars]

heres a link to some types of nudis and slugs there are, thousdands of pics on this site with over 250 genus


http://www.nudipixel.net/genus/

[martinmcnally]

Still have these dam bugs. I had been picking them out with a turkey baster for weeks and pretty much got them all only for the population to come right back when all the eggs hatched.

Is a Yellow Wrasse the best way to get rid of these?

I was thinking of dipping everything (moving to a new tank soon) what should I dip them in?

Is there anything that will kill the eggs?

[lastlight]

My melanarus destroyed my monti-eating nudis. That fish hunts non-stop all day such a cool addition. Highly recommend one although I'm not sure if they eat all types.

If you have moonlights this wrasse will work even better. Lights dim, all your corals retract and many of these bad critters come out. My melanarus doesn't go to sleep until ALL lights are out so in the pale light he can get all the stuff hiding during the day.

[martinmcnally]

So I got a yellow wrasse and litterely 5 days later they are all gone and zoas recovered. I never even seen the wrasse eat anything haha. Maybe scared them off? Or perhaps the are on a low cycle or something while more hatch. However looking good so far

[Nano]

the wrasse should take care of the problem! I had a few on my zoo' about 2 months or more ago, and I got one off manually, and the I dipped, luckily I have a small tank so I dipped all my rocks lol, some how I still have a few stometellas that survived or came in on coral

[martinmcnally]

Well these came back today with avengance. Hundreds of them eating my Zoas again. *commence crying*

I cant keep a wrasse in my tank because of my stupid Dottyback (I wanna punch that fish in the face haha).