jamiehill
Utini
Over the last few weeks I had noticed some white spots on a couple of my montiporas but figured it was just areas where some detritus became trapped. This past Sunday I was preparing to do some fragging before the lights came on and noticed a new spot that was on a vertical part of my large red cap. I looked a little closer and noticed what looked like white frilly things at the edges of the dead areas. At that point everything clicked as to the problems I had been noticing. I think I might have just not wanted to face the possibility of having these pests in my tank.
I have probably 20-25 monti colonies in my tank both encrusting and plating so there is a lot of corals that were potentially infested.
I started researching the treatment for monti nudis and was starting to get really worried. These things are like a plague. There wasn't much good news to be found until I found an article by Eric Bornemans regarding treatment with Potassium Permanganate. This chemical disolves both the nudi and the egg clusters but is potentially harmful to the coral. At this point I decided that the potential loss to the coral was better than letting the nudis chow down on them and have the guaranteed loss.
I did a TMPCC dip last night on all of the ones that I could easily get out of the tank just to see how infested they are and all but my setosa frags had evidence of the nudis. I scrubbed off all of the egg clusters I could find and moved them all into my frag tank which is very full now.
I am going to do the Potassium Permanganate treatment this evening when I get home. I will make updates on the progress and hopefully add some pictures during the process.
I am also picking up a yellow coris wrasse today to help combat the buggers too.
Link to the Eric Borneman article
I have probably 20-25 monti colonies in my tank both encrusting and plating so there is a lot of corals that were potentially infested.
I started researching the treatment for monti nudis and was starting to get really worried. These things are like a plague. There wasn't much good news to be found until I found an article by Eric Bornemans regarding treatment with Potassium Permanganate. This chemical disolves both the nudi and the egg clusters but is potentially harmful to the coral. At this point I decided that the potential loss to the coral was better than letting the nudis chow down on them and have the guaranteed loss.
I did a TMPCC dip last night on all of the ones that I could easily get out of the tank just to see how infested they are and all but my setosa frags had evidence of the nudis. I scrubbed off all of the egg clusters I could find and moved them all into my frag tank which is very full now.
I am going to do the Potassium Permanganate treatment this evening when I get home. I will make updates on the progress and hopefully add some pictures during the process.
I am also picking up a yellow coris wrasse today to help combat the buggers too.
Link to the Eric Borneman article
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