A R2R Care Spotlight: "Zoanthid Eating Spiders"

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I have dealt with these buggers... Quarantine/Manual removal was the only way I could get rid of them... They only went after a single type of Zoo (safecrackers)- I tried to "infect" different types by putting a small colony next to the infested colony-- They weren't interested?

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SICK, but cool pic! Thanks for sharing.
 

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I ended up getting rid of them a couple years ago through continuous hydrogen peroxide dips. andddd started throwing away any frag that I found them on. it was a nightmare, but through continually dipping all my corals I got rid of them.
 

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honestly...the only thing I found to get rid of them was freshwater mixed with hydrogen peroxide dips. and I would say it didn't even kill the spiders, but it made them "come out running." and then I was able to scrape them off with a scalpel.
 

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About 3 weeks ago I found one of these on a zoa I was dipping with coral rx. My thoughts were that since coral rx killed it or maybe stunned it that it would be safe to put in tank. I didnt see anything after inspecting it but Just watched a youtube of someone pulling them out and I couldnt see them until he had the spider completely removed! good hiders!

I should have thrown away this utter chaos frag! After placing it in my tank it fell off and was in the sand bed almost burried for about 3 days before I noticed it missing. I have attributed the lack of light to why it hasnt fully opened! It was open when I first had it in the tank but its is just now coming back to life! It does look shrunk up and not all the polyps have survived. I am wondering if I should dip all my zoas now! I bought about 12 more after that one and dipped them all and saw nothing so kind of scares me to dip again espially since one is a grand master krakatoa and one a speckled krakatoa so would hate to lose the pricey one like those from another dip to soon!

Should I play a wait and see or does anyone have an opinion on what to do? I now some said that in his case the spider preferred the one zoa and not any others! I am definitely going to dip the utter chaos again! It will probably kill it since its just bouncing back but I only paid 19.99 for it anyway so no big loss and worth it if it can prevent a whole infestation!

Does anyone know if there are spiders that are solid white to clear and almost microscopic in size . I though I saw one in the used dipwater but it was very different then this creepy thing, may have been some stringy detritus or something. It definitely had no color and from a hugely famous vendor that starts with a w!
 

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