Should i be concerned????

[Duke4130]

I was doing a water change right now and saw this little guy on the glass. It is probably an 1/8th inch long. Is it a bad Nudi or a good one?

[specvjeff]

Kill it

[woogiekids]

Squishie!!

[Duke4130]

nice.... now i am going to be freaking out until i can catch him.... its not where it was when i took the picture earlier

[Duke4130]

i dont see any eggs anywhere and none of the zoas are closed up

[specvjeff]

You likely won't be able to see the eggs. Just kill it and any others you see. Dip the zoas to be safe. You are better safe than sorry.

[jason142]

Its really hard to see the eggs unless you take the zoas out and inspect them closely. The nudis will change colors to mimic the color of zoa that they are munching on so it is very difficult to see them. A plethera of wrasses eat them such as melanarus, coris to name a few which is why I have so many wrasses in my tank. A dip in revive for the zoas that you can take out gets those suckerz right away. If you find any eggs they are laid in a spiral kinda like a cinimon roll and are kinda difficult to remove. If you look on coralpedia they have almost every zoa preditor there is.

[Radman]

As Jason142 said get a couple of Wrasses..... I had those and fought them for 3 months, before finally having to tear down my frag tank... and soaking in chlorine for weeks and then sitting dry in the sun for weeks... My frag tank was plumed into my sump for DT and I never saw them there but I have 3 Wrasses

[Duke4130]

All I have is a McCosker wrasse and a cryptic 6 line. I can't go much bigger than that. It is only a 32 gallon tank

[goody]

Looks more like a monti eating nudi or berghia. I'm pretty sure zoa eating nudis are brown and his picture looks white. If you have any montiporas Kevin, I would inspect those as well.

[Duke4130]

Yea i was looking that up.... All the zoa nudis are brown and this was white and looked larger than the zoa nudis i was looking at. The only monti i have in the tank at the moment is a sunset colony and that looks fine. Will a cryptic 6 line eat this thing? I know the regular 6 lines are good at eating pests but this guy i am not sure

[jason142]

The Monti eating nudis are small. If it was larger then the ones you seen online it is most likely a zoa eating variaty. When I had them I pulled at some pretty big ones. Cryptic might eat them but not sure and as far as that goes it is not guaranteed that the ones I mentioned will eat them. A small yellow coris wrasse would work in your tank for awhile. In fact I think I remember seeing a small one at aw the other day.

[Goldfish World]

I would suggest isolate all your Zoa dip then in Coral Rx use a soft bristle paint brush and brush to top and around the Zoa when they close up.

[Duke4130]

So I have confirmed.... It was a zoa nudi... I got 3 of the little *******s off of 6 different colonys.. I also removed 3 clusters of eggs... I did not make it out of work on time to make it to the lfs for the coral RX. I ended up just using fresh RO water and brush and got them off... Thanks everyone for the input and help!!!