What the heck is this?

[Khuligirl93]

I work at an aquarium store and in one of our nano display tanks this little guy showed up. He literally looks like a slug with bowser spikes on his back. He is very small, probably .5 cm and eats on the glass exactly like a snail. Sorry for the crappy pics but my iPhone can't focus on things so small. My best guess is a nudibranch/ sea hare? But I always thought they were fairly difficult to keep in aquariums, let alone hitch hiking eggs or microscopic babies randomly showing up. http://i1277.photobucket.com/albums...0-DF8C-44D9-9593-0A54B9220B08_zps1nq42mvy.jpg
http://i1277.photobucket.com/albums...F-48D8-45EC-ADF5-CEBA9695735E_zpsmev9u9yo.jpg


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[Dragon.goby]

Looks like a nudibranch. Does it have a shell, or is it like a anemone?


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[Khuligirl93]

I wouldn't compare it to an anemone... It's a crawling actively eating animal. Like a snail. But it doesn't look like it has a shell. Just a bunch of spikes.


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[Dragon.goby]

I wouldn't compare it to an anemone... It's a crawling actively eating animal. Like a snail. But it doesn't look like it has a shell. Just a bunch of spikes.


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Are they hard or are they like a tentacle


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[Khuligirl93]

I don't know I haven't touched it.

I found this on another forum, this is exactly what it looks like:
http://i1277.photobucket.com/albums...5-CEB0-4AF8-A714-DA075F2CD39D_zpsnzjzyfsc.jpg
According to the forum posts it is a nuisance nudibranch and will eat corals.


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[Mattyfelts]

any corals in the tank at all? if so what kind.

Colour of this critter? I'm thinking a nudi

 

[Dragon.goby]

Ohhh, better get rid of it then! Don't want that around. Wonder where it came from?


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[Khuligirl93]

There are some Kenya trees, mushrooms, a plate coral, and I believe a zoa in the tank.

Did the pictures not come up for you? He's a brownish yellow.


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[Mattyfelts]

There are some Kenya trees, mushrooms, a plate coral, and I believe a zoa in the tank.

Did the pictures not come up for you? He's a brownish yellow.


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not very clear, but does this little guy look kind of like zoas? nudi's look like what they eat so it could be a zoa eating nudi

 

[Khuligirl93]

In post #5 you can't see the pic I posted?
I suppose he could look like the tentacles of a brown zoa. It'd be a stretch though.


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[Mattyfelts]

In post #5 you can't see the pic I posted?
I suppose he could look like the tentacles of a brown zoa. It'd be a stretch though.


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he would look like closed zoas kind of. so if he were in a mat of them you wouldnt be able to see him, or not well.

 

[Khuligirl93]

Thanks. I'll remove him next time I see him.


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[Sniperhank]

You should dip your zoas in a coral dip, like coralRx. If there is one nudibranch, there is another or at least eggs. Better safe than sorry.


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[dingusplease]

+1 to all of the above. A nudi, good chance it's a zoa-eater, so remove it and definitely dip corals to kill the presumable eggs.


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[aaaaaalicia]

That's a nudibranch, maybe Berghia?


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[mr_X]

It looks like a zoa eater to me.

 

[aaaaaalicia]

??


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[54seaweed]

I agree with X on zoa eater , pull that zoa out and do a dip to kill them and any eggs they may have laid , you may need to manually remove them with tweezers


After looking at pict again I see 2 more that you didn't point out

 

[Khuligirl93]

Thanks guys. This was almost a year ago though and those guys are looooong gone!


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