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If possible remove the coral and dip it for monti eating nudis. Those look like bite marks

Originally Posted by Jessy

If possible remove the coral and dip it for monti eating nudis. Those look like bite marks

HMm! That's strange. I have had those before, and it affected just about all of my montis. It also did not look anything like this. I will check it out!

Thanks,
Nathan

Here is what the nudis always looked for for me. On the underside

Found on the underside of my incrusting monti’s:mad:

The three images above my reply make me itch. I hate those things. According to Evil Mark, you can get a wrasse to feast on them. The Yellow Coris wrasse, to be specific.

On your green monti, it could be damage from the hermit crab, it could be fish nipping, or shrimp damage. It could even be something landing on the coral during your dosings or treatments. It's hard to say, but the damage seems minimal.

Originally Posted by melev

The three images above my reply make me itch. I hate those things. According to Evil Mark, you can get a wrasse to feast on them. The Yellow Coris wrasse, to be specific.

On your green monti, it could be damage from the hermit crab, it could be fish nipping, or shrimp damage. It could even be something landing on the coral during your dosings or treatments. It's hard to say, but the damage seems minimal.

Ya you are right. Those things just look aweful. I do not think that I have any currently, but I have in the past, and it was aggravating. I was lucky that I only had a bunch of frags when I got them, and it was easy to treat. If I get them now, then it will be a different story.

Now. I have been having some issues with corals, and it came about really sudden. I have always had great luck, and have not had any real issues with TN, and such. It all started with a Blue Tenuis that I have. It started having some TN around the tips that had grown out into the stream of my vortech. Then it moved on to a Lime in the Sky that had also grown into the stream of my other vortech. These have both been fragged, and moved to another spot.
The only thing that was new to my tank at the same time all of this was happening was 25 new snails, and about 15 hermits. Most of the hermits were small, but I did get a few that were larger. As already stated, some of the hermits were climbing around on my corals, and have since been moved to the sump.

Lately, I have been noticing some other strange things on several corals. One thing is the damage shown in the pictures above. This has since gotten better, so I am not all that concerned about it now. Also, I have had some flesh bubbling on my Monti Spongodes. It does not seem to be a major issue but it is still there.

Something quite new, is that my Pokerstar Monti is keeping some of it's polyps retracted, and just does not seem very happy. There is also another Monti that is close to it, that is acting strange.

So I decided that with all the corals acting funny, that it could have been my RoDi, because it was due to have the filters changed out. So i ordered new filters from Melev, and installed them. I emptied out all of my old RoDi water, and made a fresh batch. I then made up a bunch of fresh saltwater. Since then, I have done a 20 gallon, a 30 gallon, and another 30 gallon water change. I am hoping that this will fix any water issues that I may have had.

I am still noticing some things that are not normal, and I have now decided that one of two things must be the cause of them.

#1. I got about 10 peppermint shrimp to try and clean up the Aptaisia in my tank. They are a total failure, as none of them seem to have an appetite for the Nems

#2. I bought a Copper banded butterfly fish to deal with the Nems, but she/he also does not seem to care for them either.

So, one of the two new additions above must be guilty of messing with my corals. I have not been able to catch any of them in the act, but plan to set up my HD Flip tonight in hopes of figuring it out. I am starting to get pretty aggravated now. I would think that I should have it under control by now, so it is disheartening

I do not think that it is any sort of pest/parasite since I am having trouble from the montis and the acros. I forgot to mention that my Pink Lemonade coral had two spots, right at the very tips where its polyps stick out, that were slimed up, and missing a little tissue last night. That is when I decided that it must be the Butterfly. We shall see I guess!

Let us know what you catch on video. I'd guess it is the peppermints only because they aren't doing anything good in your eyes.

Originally Posted by melev

Let us know what you catch on video. I'd guess it is the peppermints only because they aren't doing anything good in your eyes.

It's so funny, because I had 2 pepps that were tearing the nems up, but my wrasse ate them. Now I have 6-8 that will not touch them, but I am pretty sure ate my berguia nudis. Now I have a copperband that has no appetite for them.

Unfortunately I set up the flip last night, but I forgot to empty it first and it only took 2 minutes worth.

I have no luck!!!!! Ugh

Ok. So things look better for the most part. I still have a couple of corals that are acting funny, so I thought that I would post pictures of what I see, and get some suggestions

First, these two montis are very close to each other. They are also doing the same thing in the same spot pretty much. I cant figure out why!





Then I have this one, which has never given me any problems, and really seems to be in good shape other than whatever is going on at the tips





Things that I can think of that have changed. I have a new reactor for my carbon and gfo. It seems to be an all around better reactor from BRS. I also changed the carbon that I use from standard lignite to the Rox.08. Also, I have checked my lighting with the PAR meter, and they seem to still be just as intense as they should be. However, I wonder if the spectrum could have changed, since I seem to be getting a little more Yellow in my colors

I have the afor-mentioned fish and shrimp, but I do not see the shrimp out when the lights are on, and that is when the montis seem to be reacting this way. I have been keeping my eye on the Butterfly, and it does not seem to bother anything other than my snails.

Suggestions?

Nathan

I don't have any, sorry. My green slimer gets the same thing on the tips from time to time, which just bugs the heck out of me. I cut it off so the coral can heal and grow new tissue over it.