Well I would post this for one of the experts on RC but since they are not there...
Just curous, do you think the increased number of coral pests, such as red bugs, acro eating flatworms, Monti nudies, leather nudies, Zoa nudies, spiders, and snails (whew thats alot!) Do you think the increase can be contributed to the water temps raising & the polution going up as well. They say thats the reason for the huge boom of jellie's ... so could the same be for these pests?
I remeber when I started this hobby no one even herd of such things! It seems like all these pests started showing up as of 2004 and on. Could it be that there just was not that many pests being imported with corals? Or just our arrogance & not knowing about them that no one saw them in their tanks for all these years and blamed their colony loss on the unknown?
I'd really like to get a discussion going on this & the thoughts of everyone else so please join me
Just curous, do you think the increased number of coral pests, such as red bugs, acro eating flatworms, Monti nudies, leather nudies, Zoa nudies, spiders, and snails (whew thats alot!) Do you think the increase can be contributed to the water temps raising & the polution going up as well. They say thats the reason for the huge boom of jellie's ... so could the same be for these pests?
I remeber when I started this hobby no one even herd of such things! It seems like all these pests started showing up as of 2004 and on. Could it be that there just was not that many pests being imported with corals? Or just our arrogance & not knowing about them that no one saw them in their tanks for all these years and blamed their colony loss on the unknown?
I'd really like to get a discussion going on this & the thoughts of everyone else so please join me