red Monti getting white spots

[5ft24]

Any ideas what these white spots are?
was solid red, and just noticed these tonight...

 

[gumbii]

i would check under the coral with a bright light... it looks like you have monti eating nudibranchs kid... that's tough... if you have other high end monti's in your tank, i would just throw that one out... but if it's your only one throw it out too... LOL... that way you will know they will die down and when you get more monti's later on, you don't have to worry about it...


there are other things to go about treatments... but better be safe than sorry...

but anyways... what are your params..?

 

[Kbra]

+1 on the nudis

 

[5ft24]

i would check under the coral with a bright light... it looks like you have monti eating nudibranchs kid... that's tough... if you have other high end monti's in your tank, i would just throw that one out... but if it's your only one throw it out too... LOL... that way you will know they will die down and when you get more monti's later on, you don't have to worry about it...


there are other things to go about treatments... but better be safe than sorry...

but anyways... what are your params..?

as of last night, Alk 3, KH 9, PH 8.2, temp 79.5, Calcium 360, Ammo and Nitrite are 0, nitrate was 5 and phosphate 0.

 

[5ft24]

+1 on the nudis

will the nudis hurt anything else, or just monti's?

 

[glOckcOma]

I think it might have something to do with having PC's, how long have you had the monti?

 

[glOckcOma]

Wow nevermind ^^^ I just seen the pic, +2 on the nudis, also looks like a fish nipping at the coral

 

[5ft24]

I think it might have something to do with having PC's, how long have you had the monti?

about a month...

 

[5ft24]

Wow nevermind ^^^ I just seen the pic, +2 on the nudis, also looks like a fish nipping at the coral

Hmm... shouldn't be... only have 3 green chromis and a red fire goby

 

[gumbii]

are you sure your alk is that low...? raise it up...


but it still looks like you have nudi's... google they....

 

[5ft24]

are you sure your alk is that low...? raise it up...


but it still looks like you have nudi's... google they....

Yeah, that's in meq/L
trying to keep it above 3.5 though... added some seachem reef buffer and need to recheck tonight.

 

[IEreefmaster]

Yeah, that's in meq/L
trying to keep it above 3.5 though... added some seachem reef buffer and need to recheck tonight.

If I were you, I would just throw it away as G-Unit said. Red monti is cheap and easy to find. Plus you don't want to contaminate your tank, for later purchases of more expensive and rare monti's.

 

[5ft24]

If I were you, I would just throw it away as G-Unit said. Red monti is cheap and easy to find. Plus you don't want to contaminate your tank, for later purchases of more expensive and rare monti's.

Cool... Will toss it tonight.
Anything I need to do to get the buggers to die once the Monti is gone, or will they just starve?

 

[IEreefmaster]

Cool... Will toss it tonight.
Anything I need to do to get the buggers to die once the Monti is gone, or will they just starve?

I think they will just starve. Hey do you want a rock of some gsp GSP, a small white / yellow leather and a rock with a couple mushrooms and a kenya tree coral on it? I'll give you all of them for $30. Let me know we can meet up tonight. I live in RSM, so I am close. I am trying to get rid of stuff as I am going to be switching my tank to a new one in a couple weeks and I would like to have the least amount of livestock possible to move. I also have to some large green palys if you want them? I'll do that rock for $5.00 there are probably 15 polyps on it. Let me know.

Thanks!

 

[5ft24]

I think they will just starve. Hey do you want a rock of some gsp GSP, a small white / yellow leather and a rock with a couple mushrooms and a kenya tree coral on it? I'll give you all of them for $30. Let me know we can meet up tonight. I live in RSM, so I am close. I am trying to get rid of stuff as I am going to be switching my tank to a new one in a couple weeks and I would like to have the least amount of livestock possible to move. I also have to some large green palys if you want them? I'll do that rock for $5.00 there are probably 15 polyps on it. Let me know.

Thanks!

If you can hang on to them until next Wednesday, I'll take them!

 

[IEreefmaster]

If you can hang on to them until next Wednesday, I'll take them!

Sure...

 

[5ft24]

I got lazy and didn't take the Monti out... partly because one of my Scarlet hermits was sitting on it and he looked happy... Now, he has moved off the monty, and the white spots are gone and back to being red again... could he have eaten the buggers, or could it be I didn't have them to begin with?

 

[miket]

The montipora eating nudibranch is a tough one.

It may have been eaten (some crabs and some fish are known to eat them).

To know for sure I would keep looking under the coral for the actual adult nudibranchs. They look like tiny mop heads, about 1/10th the size of a grain of rice.

I was not able to ever get rid of them, I had a reef full of montipora, barely any remains.

- MikeT

 

[5ft24]

Well, the spots went away a while back, and noticed today while doing maintenance that the Monti is growing! looks like it's forming layers kind of spiralling off the original!
And I was told you couldn't grow these under PC's LOL

 

[gumbii]

montipora is a very low light SPS coral... you can grow it with any light really... it's just that you need a lot of PC WATTS to get them to be happy...

light is light...

get some birdsnest next... they'll do good with pc's too...