Acquired zoanthid eating nudibranchs

[charlesp123]

Has anyone had to deal with these pests before?

 

[chichimom79]

How are you sure what it is? Can you see the nudibranchs? I have a colony of zoas not doing so hot too.

 

[charlesp123]

If you look really close in the pics you can see them. They are extremely small. I was was wondering why alot of the time my zoas were closed for no apparent reason

 

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

I don't see anything, at all. Can you get a better picture?

 

[ErinCahir]

Do iodine dips and pick off all the nudis/egg sacs you can see. Be vigilant about it and you'll get them all. :)

 

[charlesp123]

Do iodine dips and pick off all the nudis/egg sacs you can see. Be vigilant about it and you'll get them all. :)

That seems like it would be the most effective way to get ride of them, I was hoping to not have to take them out of the tank... Is there any creature that eats them?

 

[charlesp123]

 

[ErinCahir]

That seems like it would be the most effective way to get ride of them, I was hoping to not have to take them out of the tank... Is there any creature that eats them?

Not that I'm aware of. I'd stick with the dip.

 

[charlesp123]

Someone told me that yellow coras wrasse might eat them, also I started sucking them out of the tank with a small tube... its kinda fun haha. have a bucket with about 30 of those jokers in there

 

[SarahSmile]

Sounds tedious! good luck. You probably don't want to mess with the wrasse though, getting a certain fish to do what you want never works out. They need bigger tanks too, pretty fish though. Awesome pest pics, you must have a pretty decent camera.

 

[charlesp123]

Thanks, Its actually my phone the Galaxy Note 2. This morning I went looking through my reef and have yet to find anymore of the lil buggas