Well, it finally happened...

[RandyFolds]

My irresponsible livestock additions with no dips or quarantine has come back to bite me in the You better mean it as in 'donkey'.

I am pretty certain I have a case of Montipora eating nudibranchs, and the only solution is quarantine and constant dipping, and keeping your fingers crossed that something survives. I have yet to see them, but I am on the hunt as soon as the lights are out.

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Bill's F-ing Sweet Purple Montipora with Green Polyps...getting ravaged:


I have maybe seven or eight different Montis in my 30g, and only three seem affected thus far - Idaho Grape, the purple one from Bill, and the setosa? from Jake - but the nudis need only stray a couple inches to find more. There is a digitata frag that is showing recession from the bottom up in a clean line, which could be nudis, or it could just be dying.

Looks like Bill's old frag tank is becoming my Montipora quarantine for a couple months as soon as Jake and I install this 125g. I need to get under my garbage house tomorrow and shore up the joists so it doesn't drop through the damn floor.

[Bergy]

NOOOOOopoooooooo


Dang it....

You should be able to see them, and thier eggs... they lay the eggs on the bottom side of the montipora...

there are dips, and i thought there was a natural remedy as well... I think there are other nudibranchs that eat these nudibranchs


(BTW the pronounciation is NUDIE BRANCKs)

didnt i give you some of teh REVIVE or whatever it is called.. it is a coral dip that also gets nudibranchs

[psykokid]

You gave me some last week. When Lanny was down at the wholesalers on Monday he picked up a bottle.  That sucks about the nudis..

*[childish taunt]Lanny has reef cooties[/childish taunt]*

[RandyFolds]

Seriously...Reef Clap. I can't give anyone anything right now, nor would I feel comfortable moving the stuff into another tank with the possibility of spreading it.

I pulled out some chunks of Idaho grape that broke easily...it's pretty encrusted so there isn't much. I treated the frags and everything I could pull out in Revive. Couldn't find any nudis amongst the hundreds of dead planaria on them. I might just go to town on the planaria with some airline and hook up these Phosban 150s inline and packed full of carbon and finally dose the Flatworm eXit.
It would be nice to be done with them, though my sixline would have to be fed then.

[psykokid]

i'll bring the FW exit over when i come bright and early on sunday.. gah..

[Bergy]

oh yea, it was you... i cant tell you two apart sometimes... hehehehe

[Learner]

Hope you sort the problem out soon, good luck.