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freezetyle
10-19-2010, 02:13 AM
Found him on the glass. after witnessing some weird skin lesions on a montipora:cry:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e41/freezetyle/DSCN0654.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e41/freezetyle/DSCN0655.jpg

Going to have to find some predators
Borderjumper
10-19-2010, 03:23 AM
Monti eating nudies are white... That looks more like a zoa eating nudie, the way it's fringie things are colored. They usually take on the color of the zoas they are living in.. Makes em really hard to see.
freezetyle
10-19-2010, 03:38 AM
Monti eating nudies are white... That looks more like a zoa eating nudie, the way it's fringie things are colored. They usually take on the color of the zoas they are living in.. Makes em really hard to see.

that actually makes a lot of sense. a colony i bought recently has been pretty ****ed off. Didn't think it was a parasite because i did a freshwater dip and a dip in revive. resilient buggers
Borderjumper
10-19-2010, 04:02 AM
Bet the zoas are orange? Like the fringe color of the nudie.

Revive will stun or kill the adults, but it doesn't affect the eggs, so you have to redip once week or so until you don't see anymore adults.

If the nudie was on the glass, your zoa must have tons. Look at it closely.
ScubaSteve
10-19-2010, 04:58 AM
+1 on a zoa nudie. Do everything you can to nuke those bastards before they multiply. It took me like 4 months to finally get rid of them and even still I see the odd one here and there.

Flatworm exit is also pretty good and nuking them. Just mix it up at a higher concentration for the dip. Get a pair of tweezers and go egg hunting. You'll have to scrape them off and they stick like white on rice.