This has been festering for quite some time, and I need to post something about it. Several of the actions are my fault, but due to everything below I have lost a ton of livestock (corals, shrimp, crabs, snails, etc.....).
I would also like to ask the club to please dip everything before it goes into any of your tanks, and to also let everyone know if you have something bad in your tank, before selling anything, or giving any corals away.
- enough venting. Time to move on.
- My tank is doing great, everything is growing, life is good.
- I attend the DBTC meeting. Thought it was a great idea, enjoyed meeting people there, got some cool new frags. Live is still good.
- Come home, dip corals, inspect them, but was in a hurry so didn't inspect as good as I should have. (This is my fault)
- I find a zoa eating nudi in my tank. Remove it, and also remove a string of eggs. I know it wasn't in my tank before, because it is the only one I have seen up until this point. It also matched the a zoa plug (same colors, etc...) My gut tells me it came from the swap. I don't appear to have any others in the tank.
- About the same time-frame, my heater gets stuck on, and does a number to my tank. I loose some corals, but things appear have stabilized.
- 4 weeks after pulling the adult 1" long nudi out of the tank, I see several 1/4 --> 1/3 ones in my tank. I pluck about 20 of them out. The next day I pluck out 10 more small ones.
- I do research online, and find that FWE is great at killing the nudi's, just not the eggs. It also says you should dose at 10X the normal strength, and it's reef safe to do that. I find similar posts on several boards, so figure I'll give it a shot.
- I dosed about 130 drops of FWE into my 29 gal BC. Figuring I have about 20+ gals of water in the tank this is 6.5 drops per gal, not the 10x that I read you should do. Add carbon 2 hours later, then do a water change.
- The next day I see another nudi, and pluck it out.
- I also notice tons of dead pods (to be expected), and a mini tank cycle with a small algae bloom. It was gone by day 3.
- I don't see any for 5 days (6 days after first treatment). I then see 2 of them crawling on my frag rack, and on my glass. Time for 2nd treatment. (Online it says to wait a week, but apparently, I need to do another treatment).
- This time, I slowly add the drops, waiting to see what dose will actually kill them. After 150 drops (7.5 drops per gal), they were still alive. I then notice my wrasse doesn't look very good.
- I throw some carbon into the tank, and do a water change. The wrasse is much better.
- Then slowly over a couple of days, all of my corals, started to die. I lost all of my acans (that were left from the heater incident), goni, sps's, hammers, frogspawns, alll chalices, favias, etc. Most of my zoa's have now been closed for 2+ weeks, and some are turning brown and dieing, and some have recently opened. My GSP even look bad, and I thought you needed battery acid to kill them.
- I have since setup a small 5 gal tank for the zoa's, so I can try to bring them back to health, and dip them every couple of nights, to try and free them of the nudi's, but all in all, I have lost a ton of stuff, and what I have left doesn't look very good.
- On the plus side, I did add a couple of pieces from Daniel's tank, and they are all doing well.
I would also like to ask the club to please dip everything before it goes into any of your tanks, and to also let everyone know if you have something bad in your tank, before selling anything, or giving any corals away.
- enough venting. Time to move on.
