Help :: Nudis are eating my monti's

[aesop]

I'm having some problems with these small nudibranches eating my plating monti's. They first hitchhiked on my one of my two plates, and it seems they are now spreading like fire.

I've been sucking them out with syringes for the past 4 days but they keep coming back. They seem to be breeding pretty fast

Are there any critters that will eat these guys cause my clown, and cardinals spit them back out.

What they look like:

And its eggs?:

 

[Minh Nguyen]

Remove all Montipora from the tank for several months. Frags some of these montipora, make sure that they are free of these nudibranches. Return these Montipora to your tank once the Nudibranches starved to death.

 

[JeremyR]

We beat these montipora nudies in the shop a couple years ago without removing all (any) montipora. It takes diligence, but you can do it. I posted recently about this in another thread, if you do a search it will come up. Basically you put the colony in a bucket, turkey baste the little suckers off, do it 2 or 3 times a week, and you'll break the cycle. I never found anything that ate them. I guess it depends on how attatched you are to your montipora as to how hard you try to get rid of them.

 

[aesop]

Looks like the only way to do it is manual removal. I crossposted to another forum where these nudis appeared to be quite prevalant. I've been checking the two plates every day so far and manually sucking them out with a syringe. Looks like it strictly eating the two plates. Since my purple monti, is unaffected.

http://www.reefcentral.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&postid=671135#post671135

We beat these montipora nudies in the shop a couple years ago without removing all (any) montipora. It takes diligence, but you can do it. I posted recently about this in another thread, if you do a search it will come up. Basically you put the colony in a bucket, turkey baste the little suckers off, do it 2 or 3 times a week, and you'll break the cycle. I never found anything that ate them. I guess it depends on how attatched you are to your montipora as to how hard you try to get rid of them.

 

[JeremyR]

They will eat digitata and encrusting species too, but they are alot easier to deal with on digitata... they can't hide on it as well as they can in the nooks of the plating species. After awhile, I got pretty good at finding them.

 

[aesop]

OK, saw one on the purple monti last night. But like JeremyR says; I'm now able to spot them fairly easily.

I've been manually removing them for a while now, by sucking them off with a syringe. I'm also blowing them off into the sink with a turkey baster with the larger peice since its not attached to my rockwork.

They seem to be declining in number. So it looks like its working