Weird Creepy Crawly Thing

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Weird Creepy Crawly Thing

So I have what appears to be one or more really small nudibranchs in my tank that I can’t ID. They are about 2MM and glow bright orange like the micro zoa in this picture … any ideas?

Sorry about the picture quality … but these things are SO small.
 

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It looks like you have quite a few Zoas in your tank. Zoa eating nudis will chew them quick. You may want to pull your Zoas and dip the hell out of them.
 
Ok I extracted the little fekker and can't see anymore ... but I will keep my eyes open for them. I would have to dismantle the whole tank to get that rock out to dip so this prevention will need to do for now.
 

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Ok I extracted the little fekker and can't see anymore ... but I will keep my eyes open for them. I would have to dismantle the whole tank to get that rock out to dip so this prevention will need to do for now.
 
That is absolutely a zoa eating nudi. Watch your zoas. If there are more they can mow them down pretty quick.
 
I recently dealt with this, if you can, pull out all your zoas and dip them, then keep them out of the tank. They’ll die without food. Also, look out for the zoas that are closed up, chances are tiny nudis are munching on them.

When dipping, make sure to put them in strong current for the chemicals to make their way to all the cracks and spaces between the polyps. You should end up seeing numerous dead nudis floating around after.


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I recently dealt with this, if you can, pull out all your zoas and dip them, then keep them out of the tank. They’ll die without food. Also, look out for the zoas that are closed up, chances are tiny nudis are munching on them.

When dipping, make sure to put them in strong current for the chemicals to make their way to all the cracks and spaces between the polyps. You should end up seeing numerous dead nudis floating around after.


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I think that I might have one frag that matches this description. I can't keep the frags out of the tank ... but I will try to do a long iodine dip tonight for a few hours.
 
Damn came home today to one of my zoanthid frags closed up, remembered this post and sniped this guy on the plug
 

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Weird Creepy Crawly Thing

So I have what appears to be one or more really small nudibranchs in my tank that I can’t ID. They are about 2MM and glow bright orange like the micro zoa in this picture … any ideas?

Sorry about the picture quality … but these things are SO small.

They are evil. They’ll eat your zoanthids and pally’s. Unfortunately they resist pretty much any sort of dipping out there. You have to physically remove them. I heard the 6line wrasse eats them.


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