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Posted: June 30 2009 at 1:20am |
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I'm deciding if its worth a battle or should I just toss all my cap? or slowly watch it die?
has anyone battled with them and completely gotten rid of them?
what all will they be eatting? Digi? Spongodes?
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Posted: June 30 2009 at 1:23am |
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try a fw dip and a placing it in to qt, the nudis will die with out food. after a few weeks or so it should be safe to put your cap back in the display.
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Posted: June 30 2009 at 1:29am |
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In my opinion once a cap is dipped in fresh water it seems it might as well just have been tossed in the garbage. I've never had luck freshwater dipping a monti and I'm talking just submersing for less than 5 seconds and pulling it back out I tried that with one monti and it killed the whole colony over night..
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Posted: June 30 2009 at 1:31am |
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that could be due to a few things, the temp could have been different, as well as the ph was not the same. also did you use tap water or ro?
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Posted: June 30 2009 at 1:45am |
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It was just room temp RO so there might have been a slight difference in temp but not much....
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Posted: June 30 2009 at 9:10am |
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What wrasse do you guys recommend?
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Posted: June 30 2009 at 10:18am |
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if you only have the one monti i would go ahead and try the dip and make sure temp and pH are the same. starving out the ones in the display is the big issue. imo, losing a cap to get rid of these is worth it. they will destroy every monti you get and for me thats bad, since i love montis more than anything. if you do any trading, even if it isn't the monti, make sure you let others know, had someone knowingly "forget" to tell me when trading once, and i had redbugs galore. if you end up losing the cap, i probably have the one you need.
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Posted: June 30 2009 at 10:53am |
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What wrasse do you guys recommend?
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seagrass wrasse
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Posted: June 30 2009 at 11:59am |
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sixlines are also considered great pest-eaters.
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Posted: June 30 2009 at 10:46pm |
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anyone else have any advise? right now I'm just doing a few dips, as well as blowing them off/scrapping as I see them and I picked up a six line wrasse it hopes it might help some
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Posted: July 01 2009 at 9:38am |
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ive only read terrible things about these guys. The people that were able to save frags took all their montis out and put in a bare tank and pulled them off everytime they've seen them. sorry about your luck
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