Losing battle with zoa eating nudibranch. Getting desperate.

[hansnfrans]

I've dealt with zoa nudis on multiple occasions and zoa spiders once over the past 9 years and IME yellow coris wrasses are excellent for spiders and good for nudis and green coris wrasses are excellent for nudis (didn't really help with zoa spiders). I've had a yellow and a green coexist peacefully in a tank as small as a 40 gal, but I've never tried anything smaller than that. I've also tried radiants and a sea grass wrasse and neither of those were useful IME.

 

[madjoe]

Why dont u try that stuff luna used rps or something suposse to kill eggs and all. If it works i wouldnt even botger with anything else cause nithing else kills eggs

 

[lunacris]

i can vouch that rps dip will kill nudi (monti eating nudi) ime, but will not kill the eggs , i am going to start dipping again every few days as the nudi life cycle is crazy fast. cant say the effect rps will have on dipping a whole rock i was just dipping frags . this time around i will be dipping in rps to kill adults and scrubbing the underside of every monti with a tooth brush to try and remove eggs and see if i can beat them . issue is even if wrasse eat them they multiply too fast 1 turns into 100"s in no time at all . good luck with your battle !

 

[carpetreef75]

I been battling zoa eating nudibranch in my nano tank for almost 6 months now. Lost so many zoas to them. Money down the drain. I have tried dosing tank with flatworm exit but they seem to be immune to it. All it did was kill off all the brittle starfish in my tank. The zoas are attached to a big rock with SPS and LPS so it's hard for me to dip the entire rock. I got a sixline recently from SkullV and love the fish but it's a dud when it comes to eating nudibranch. What else can I do?? I am so desperate that I am considering selling the sixline and finding a yellow coris.

I do not want to loose these zoas...

old thread but still very nice Zoa garden
Bryan