Some Zoa Predator pics

[Alti]

 

[robharold]

Did you find these in some of your zoas?

WHAT the heck is that second one? It looks astonishingly evil.

 

[gflat65]

Great pics.

 

[ficklefins]

Did you find these in some of your zoas?

WHAT the heck is that second one? It looks astonishingly evil.

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7861

Zoa Eating Spider

 

[rarelyseriousb]

spiders dont scare me but this is a horrfic looking creature. If I saw this in my tank i am PBITAWA

 

[Hypertek99]

Sundail Snail

Zoa eating spider

Zoa eating nudibranch

 

[Neon Reef]

Yuck, Yikes and Yowzers...
sorry but that's all i can contribute to this thread..those are some nasty little bugers.

 

[Alti]

Yup, that spider was nasty. Ive only seen those big black ones come in on large button polyps. The smaller whitish spiders wont touch those polyps so the black ones may be specific to palythoa species.

 

[ZOABOY]

Kill them all.

 

[softiegirl]

no s$%t! anything with the word spider in it is as good as dead in my house!

 

[iReefer]

F@#%()* that crap, do any one out there know how get rid of that ugly looking slug pix 3 i have found like couple of them in my tank but they were more colorful than that though it was orange color.

 

[flricordia]

F@#%()* that crap, do any one out there know how get rid of that ugly looking slug pix 3 i have found like couple of them in my tank but they were more colorful than that though it was orange color.

They usually take on the color of the zoanthid they are feeding on. They are nudibranchs that feed exclusively on zoanthids.
When I get a new zoanthid in I place them into a 1/2 gallon of tank water in a bucket and add 2 drops of flatworm exit for 1/2 hour. This will kill all the nudis and anything else. Will not kill the nudi eggs which need to be removed with tweezers. If you are seeing the nudis now on the zoas in your tank you will need to remove the zoas for a dip and careful inspection. If they cannot be removed (attached to large rocks) it will be a 24/7 battle shutting off flow whenever you see a nudi and pulling it out with tweezers. I went though it couple eyars ago. Never thought it would end but after months of daily removing nudis, one day there were none and have not had any since.
Course, as I said above, I dip all new zoas now and check them over carefully.
Oh, and no need for the language. Everyone knows what it means and everyone knows the frustration of having coral predators.

 

[Hypertek99]

That's why i always dip my corals before i put it in my tank. I use TMPCC