about FW and velvet nudibranch

ctniners · 04/20/2010, 08:37 AM

so after trying the chemical way with fwexit and failing i am set up to receive a velvet nudibranch tomorrow....i am hoping to pass it along to local reefers once it has done its job......so here are my questions....i have the normal set up...75 gal display tank.....under i have a 40 gal breeder as a sump with the middle compartment as a refugium with microalage and the last compartment is the return to the display....i can see fw in the refuge....would you take all that microalgae and the pods within it and throw it away and put the nudibranch there first?..... and then move it to the display tank?.....i hate to kill all the pods but i dont see another way of killing the fws in the fuge....specially if they are inbedded deep in the chaeto correct?

thanks for the help guys

reggiepe · 04/20/2010, 08:48 AM

me too! mine will be here tomorrow as well. I just can't get on top of those flatworms with chemicals......my thoughts would be to mix up some flatworm exit in a bucket of saltwater and do a dip of your algae and whatever else is in the refugium. Then put that stuff in a rubbermaid container to basically QT it. Then let the nudi do it's work down there for a while. Either way that you do it, you are going to lose your pods. But this way, you won't lose them all, just the one's in the Macro.

ctniners · 04/20/2010, 07:17 PM

do you think it would be better to just keep the refuge as is so the nudibranch doesnt starve?....I believe they all came from the chaeto that I bought from the lfs, because I have a sock on the compartment where the water drains from the display tank, so there is no way they could have gotten to the fuge from the main tank....

04/20/2010, 08:37 AM	#1
ctniners Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: CT Posts: 938	about FW and velvet nudibranch so after trying the chemical way with fwexit and failing i am set up to receive a velvet nudibranch tomorrow....i am hoping to pass it along to local reefers once it has done its job......so here are my questions....i have the normal set up...75 gal display tank.....under i have a 40 gal breeder as a sump with the middle compartment as a refugium with microalage and the last compartment is the return to the display....i can see fw in the refuge....would you take all that microalgae and the pods within it and throw it away and put the nudibranch there first?..... and then move it to the display tank?.....i hate to kill all the pods but i dont see another way of killing the fws in the fuge....specially if they are inbedded deep in the chaeto correct? thanks for the help guys

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04/20/2010, 08:48 AM	#2
reggiepe Seriously? Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Newburg, Pennsylvania Posts: 332	me too! mine will be here tomorrow as well. I just can't get on top of those flatworms with chemicals......my thoughts would be to mix up some flatworm exit in a bucket of saltwater and do a dip of your algae and whatever else is in the refugium. Then put that stuff in a rubbermaid container to basically QT it. Then let the nudi do it's work down there for a while. Either way that you do it, you are going to lose your pods. But this way, you won't lose them all, just the one's in the Macro.

04/20/2010, 07:17 PM	#3
ctniners Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: CT Posts: 938	do you think it would be better to just keep the refuge as is so the nudibranch doesnt starve?....I believe they all came from the chaeto that I bought from the lfs, because I have a sock on the compartment where the water drains from the display tank, so there is no way they could have gotten to the fuge from the main tank....