I Can't Win!!! Damn you Nudi's!!!

[Anonymous]

i have never had zoa nudis before, but this is the recommended method, and the treatment every coral that goes in my tank gets:
yes kent marine lugols in a 15 sec. tank temp fresh water dip every 3-4 day till you have no more. add about 10 drops to a small dipping container dip for 15 seconds and they swish them off. for your first treatment though if you want to dip your rocks, i would use an icecream bucket (or 5 gal) filled with enough water to cover your largest rock and about 50 drops of lugols. dip every piece this way and then follow up treatments with the small container just for the zoa frags.
look for eggs and toothbrush any thing suspicious looking off. the only coral i have had a bad reaction from this treatment has been my montis. for them, lugols or TMPCD can also be used in salt water dips for 15 minutes. this method is safer and used with more fragile corals like montis because they do not like fresh water dips, but zoas can handle the fresh water no prob. in general though it is not as effective as fresh water against nudis.

 

[aquemeni5110]

Thanks J&D. I planning on dipping them ASAP.

 

[islandcreation]

aquemeni5110,

The other night I got up for some reason and took a flash light to the colonies. Guess what I saw :evil: Nudis everywhere! It seems as if a baby batch just hatched. The following day I filled a gallon and a half of Ro with 60 drops of lugol and dipped every coral. Unfortunatly, one of my colonies had a mushroom on it which I caught 2 minutes later so far its still attached and making a recovery. Can't believe how much living organisms are on these live rocks/colonies! I don't think I'll be able to completly get rid of all of them? I have some colonies are on large base rocks that I would dare to take out (weight about 15-20 pounds). If anyone has a trick for that please join in.
Have you been to "Your Reef" in Roseville? I'm headed to Roseville for a wedding this friday and going to visit them. I sae them on Ebay and yourreef.com do you recomend any other LFS up there. Thanks

 

[aquemeni5110]

aquemeni5110,

The other night I got up for some reason and took a flash light to the colonies. Guess what I saw :evil: Nudis everywhere! It seems as if a baby batch just hatched. The following day I filled a gallon and a half of Ro with 60 drops of lugol and dipped every coral. Unfortunatly, one of my colonies had a mushroom on it which I caught 2 minutes later so far its still attached and making a recovery. Can't believe how much living organisms are on these live rocks/colonies! I don't think I'll be able to completly get rid of all of them? I have some colonies are on large base rocks that I would dare to take out (weight about 15-20 pounds). If anyone has a trick for that please join in.
Have you been to "Your Reef" in Roseville? I'm headed to Roseville for a wedding this friday and going to visit them. I sae them on Ebay and yourreef.com do you recomend any other LFS up there. Thanks

Your reef? Dude, that's where I got all of my zoo's from! :lol3: I bought them through their ebay auctions. I bought 2 x 9 frags packs. I'm not implying that they're infested because they were really healthy the first 2 months I had them. I'm suspecting it's my large zoo colony that I purchased from my LFS that caused the nudi breakouts. Let me know if it's worth the drive. :mrgreen:

Have you check out Northbay Aquatics in Napa?

 

[reefman23]

This is the dip I use and recommend... worked for me. Good luck.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showt ... did=533167

Jesse

 

[islandcreation]

aquemeni5110,

The other night I got up for some reason and took a flash light to the colonies. Guess what I saw :evil: Nudis everywhere! It seems as if a baby batch just hatched. The following day I filled a gallon and a half of Ro with 60 drops of lugol and dipped every coral. Unfortunatly, one of my colonies had a mushroom on it which I caught 2 minutes later so far its still attached and making a recovery. Can't believe how much living organisms are on these live rocks/colonies! I don't think I'll be able to completly get rid of all of them? I have some colonies are on large base rocks that I would dare to take out (weight about 15-20 pounds). If anyone has a trick for that please join in.
Have you been to "Your Reef" in Roseville? I'm headed to Roseville for a wedding this friday and going to visit them. I sae them on Ebay and yourreef.com do you recomend any other LFS up there. Thanks

Your reef? Dude, that's where I got all of my zoo's from! :lol3: I bought them through their ebay auctions. I bought 2 x 9 frags packs. I'm not implying that they're infested because they were really healthy the first 2 months I had them. I'm suspecting it's my large zoo colony that I purchased from my LFS that caused the nudi breakouts. Let me know if it's worth the drive. :mrgreen:

Have you check out Northbay Aquatics in Napa?

I think I have.... They reffered me to diamondsofthereef.com for better corals but the prices were to high. There is another individual on ebay thats supposively in Fremont that has some exotic poylps. I offered him a particular price for a frag pack. So I'm waiting for what he has to offer. Yeah, I'll be headed to Roseville Friday and will see if I can take some pics.

 

[aquemeni5110]

islandcreation - I saw an eBay seller in located in Fremont. Is his eBay ID zoafrags? If it is, I'm actually watching some carribean tangerine ricordias of his. I ask if I could pick up and he said he's now located in Tracy.


Jesse - Thanks for the link. I'll check it out and get back to you as soon as I read it.

 

[islandcreation]

aquemeni5110, yeah same seller. We almost had a good deal going on until I heard he frags the corals and ships the next day. I'm not really excitied when I hear that! I really want my frags to be healthy when I receive them rather than hoping their okay after being fragged then shipped. I asked the same question and he stated his house was a mess and he could meet me in Tracy. I told him about LFS I was going to in Sac and Roseville and he wanted to know when I was headed up there, and potential meet up. It seems he's headed up there this weekend for sure! Weird???? Anyways, do you have a frags for trade or sale? I'm looking for exotics especially true PPE!

 

[aquemeni5110]

I've only got these turqoise mushrooms for trade. Nothing special or exotic. I'd like to replace them though for some red or blue mushrooms later on. And well, I don't think you'd be interested in any of my zoo's at the moment. However, I successfully fragged about 14 of my zoo's for my 3g so there's still hope. I'm headed to Tropical Fish in El Cerrito today to buy the Lugol's.

What's true PPE?

 

[islandcreation]

PPE are purple people eaters. Large palythoas which are very expensive and rare. I hate when people post on ebay and state their real PPE's. I beginning to side with palys just because their larger and grasp food easily. I do have zoas that finally close up when feed but it took awhile to get them that's big. Yeah, I do have some frags down the line for trade if you get anything down the line. Armor of God and Armagedons which are my real exotics. I do have some dragons eyes, radioactive dragon eyes, and some fuzzy mushroom colonies that are bright green and pinkish. I traded my berlin skimmer for some colonies and frags.

 

[aquemeni5110]

So I bought the logul's last Friday. Now I'm just waiting for a completely free day to do some massive dipping.

Jesse - I didn't read all of that link but I did read the first post by MUCHO REEF. Is it true? Will a Sea Grass Wrasse eat the nudi's? I found it very interesting and read it intil the end.

 

[islandcreation]

aquemeni5110,

You read that article too! It seems as if it gave us some hope! J&D confirmed to me that the FWE didn't work in his past experience and through knowledge in general.
If you get any info regarding that please inform us. :mrgreen:

 

[aquemeni5110]

Mucho's dip recipe worked like a charm. I'm crossing my fingers but I know I will have to do the dip real soon.