Check out this creature that ruined our dinner

[whitebear1020]

Here we are doing our regular water change, re-arranging coral and this creature falls off the cabbage coral. It is so awesome with around 30 tentacles that curl in and out.

http://pbckt.com/sL.ooa

When she was hiding under the rock, she looked like a flower.

 

[whitebear1020]

We kept watching it for hours. When my husband realized that it is a nudibranch, he was like, you told me that we cannot keep a nudibranch. I said, that's right, because they usually eat one particular coral and if you don't have that coral they will starve to death... so he is running around the tank and telling nudibranch where to go to find the coral that she felt from. She ignored all his yelling and went the opposite direction, he took a spoon and tried to guide her back ... it was so funny. Five hours later the rescue mission was successfully accomplished. ;D

 

[9supratt4]

So....you want the Nudi to eat and kill your coral??

 

[whitebear1020]

What other options do I have? I can't just throw her out...besides my cabbage coral is huge and grows fast. Hopefully she doesn't eat anything else.

 

[jimroth]

You should go over to Seaslugforum.net and see if you can figure out which one it is. It's certainly eating your cabbage coral, not that there's anything wrong with that, it grows prety fast.I think nudibrachs are cooler than cabbage coral.
A long time ago I cot a cladiella soft coral which turned out to have a tritoniopsis slug in it. It shaved away half the coral. I tried to switch it to a cheap enormous colt coral I had but no dice. There are a few pix of mine on seaslugforum. Oooh, man, has it really been ten years???

http://www.seaslugforum.net/message/3057

 

[Dave]

Here is a good nudi link if you want to identify.

http://www.starfish.ch/c-invertebrates/nudibranchs-aeolidina.html