What is this? Nudibranch?

[markodeniro]

Found 4 of these crawling over and around my torch



They look like oval flat slugs?


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[markodeniro]

Sorry those pics haven't come out very good I did a coral dip and got these off but now back in the tank I can see these are these eggs? They are brown and around the base of each torch?


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[cgthebeast]

They look like nudi to me. I would do one more dip then instead of placing back into the tank, have a spare 5 gallon bucket an know the eggs or what ever they off with a pair of tweezers

 

[Reefing Madness]

I'd dip that coral if it were mine, get rid of that trouble once and for all.

 

[Sniperhank]

What you have pictured on the paper towel are not nudibranch, they are flatworms. Though they won't do any harm on purpose, they will want to get as close to light as possible. This will lead to large numbers of them easily smothering a coral of light.

 

[markodeniro]

Yeah sniper hank I think your right. I did another dip and all those brown dots are the eggs I scraped off it. Must be about 100 of them! Are they AFW? Would the flatworms eat any corals? I've read they like acropora which I don't have thankfully ?


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[Sniperhank]

Those aren't coral eaters.


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[bribo12]

You can't get aefw without acropora .


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[markodeniro]

So basically they won't harm the coral unless they smother it? They look gross which is one of the reasons I got rid


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[Sniperhank]

They'd most likely die out or not reach numbers to be of any issue. Just because something in the hobby is gross doesn't mean get rid of it. There are many odd looking creatures that are good for your system, like chiton for example.


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[markodeniro]

Yeah I understand just looking online I thought they may have been AFW or something anyway everything's fine and I probably left a few eggs on there anyway


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[oscadoob]

The one in the middle looks like a stomatella snail...

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