some help..

[CancerverO]

ok.. have 3 questions...

1) what is this? the pics 1 n 2.. looks like a snail.. but long with tho little horns.. I wasn;t sure what are those.. I found 4 so far I removed them..

I checked http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/reefs-beginners/14406-hitchhikers-guide.html , but wasn't able to find something similar..

2) third pic.. i found 2.. should I take them out.. ? BTW .. that pic is not of my tank..

3) my RBTA is behind a rock and not receiving enough light.. i know they move until they find the perfect spot.. it was doing that.. but now Im afraid it will die.. should I re-arrenge the rocks.. ?

Thanks a lot..

 

[crox99]

Picture 1 & 2 looks like a stomatella and picture 3 looks like snail eggs.

 

[KathyC]

The pic you need to be concerned with is pic # 3..those eggs belong to the nudi that is NEXT to them..it EATS ZOAS!!!

Note the green color of the Nudi - that is beacuse it just finished eating some of your green zoas (they take on the color of what they have eaten & it makes it hard for you to see them)

You need to get some Lugols dip - today if possible -- follow the directions on the bottle & dip ALL of your zoas.

The Lugols will kill the adults but it won't kill the eggs..you will need to SCRAPE off ALL of the eggs that you find on your zoa colonies. Your pic clearly shows what their egg clusters look like.

 

[crox99]

i didn't see that nudi. That explains why all of his zoos don't look too good.

 

[DevIouS]

Kathy is right.....


Although you stated pic 3 is not yours, if they look like that, they are definitely nudis.


In the Hitchhikers link you posted above, they were links posted by Deanos:

http://www.melevsreef.com/id/snails.html

http://www.reeffrontiers.com/photos_corals/showgallery.php?cat=543&page=2

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=959715

http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=14354&stc=1&d=1162405693

 

[DevIouS]

i didn't see that nudi. That explains why all of his zoos don't look too good.

Didn't see the Nudi?!?!?!??!

http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=30793&stc=1&d=1195307411

 

[crox99]

Didn't see the Nudi?!?!?!??!

http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=30793&stc=1&d=1195307411

I was looking at the circled item.

 

[KathyC]

I was looking at the circled item.

Obviously...:fishhit: lol


Javier...you're RBTA will come back out when & where he feels like it, no point in moving the rock. He won't sit back there and die unless something is wrong with him already & moving the rocks wouldn't change that.

 

[DevIouS]

So what did you mean by this?

1) what is this? the pics 1 n 2.. looks like a snail.. but long with tho little horns.. I wasn;t sure what are those.. I found 4 so far I removed them..

 

[CancerverO]

my zoas

my zoas

 

[DevIouS]

So what did you mean by this?

1) what is this? the pics 1 n 2.. looks like a snail.. but long with tho little horns.. I wasn;t sure what are those.. I found 4 so far I removed them..

Does it have a shell?

 

[CancerverO]

So what did you mean by this?

that looks like the 4 things that I removed...the color was white/gray...

yes it has a small shell..

 

[CancerverO]

just to be safe.. i should get Lugols .. and threat all my zoas.. but I just want to emphazise that i found something that looks like "eggs" but nothing that looks like nudi.. but again i do not want to lose my zoas.. now the nudi should be around the zoas.. what if it hides on the rocks.. should I threat my other corals , too?

I have:
candy cream, clove polyps, hammer, frogspawn, torch, leather, cocoworms, favia. mushroom, star polyps, green buble, RBTA..

Thanks.

 

[CancerverO]

I located the source ( clove polyps).. they are many of these animal .. nudis.. i also found the eggs .. so im gonna thread my zoas..

 

[KathyC]

I do not know that you can treat corals other than zoas with Lugols, please do a search on it before you do so. I know it is safe with the zoas if you follow the directions.
Zoa eating nudi's only eat zoas..I believe.
Don't forget that you need to scrape off the eggs.

 

[CancerverO]

well i have threated my zoas with lulos solution and i am still losing some zoas... so i think I found the monster... heliacus snail... I have found quite a few (8) .. i have removed them.. is there any way to kill all of them at one shot? ... ...

and I have seen them all over my tank.. so this will be hard to control .. worst thing is that im losing my zoas... now im piss....

 

[JHOV2324]

that looks like the 4 things that I removed...the color was white/gray...

yes it has a small shell..

the snail u mentioned sounds like a stomatella snail...good for ur tank. looks like a slug with a small oval shell on its head right...

 

[CancerverO]

well.. the ones that look like stomatella snail.. wel i removed them already.. ;(.. but im still losing some zoas.. so i have found some type of snails so i look for them and found out that they r called heliacus snail...

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/images/feb2003/Heliacusthumb.jpg