Nudibranch ID needed

[PaulM]

I found this guy crawling around my tank. Any idea if he is a threat to my coral?

 

[redfishbluefish]

There are thousands of nudibranchs. HERE’s a link that has a mere 36 thousand-plus pictures of nudi’s. Happy hunting!



You might be able to go the “identification” section and submit your picture.

 

[PaulM]

Pretty sure it was some sort of zoo eating one as it was on a zoo colony. Guess the revive didn't work.

 

[howze01]

How long have you had the frag? The Revive works on hatched nudis but the eggs aren't killed by dipping. It coulld be from that.

 

[PaulM]

It was on a colony I got from the Frag swap. I noticed it has been closed up. I pulled a few off. I will just have to keep my eyes open and watch everything closely.

 

[Fish Brain]

Yep, that looks like a Zoo eating Naudi. I battled them for almost two months in my BioCube. I would wait till lights out and check the tank with a flashlight and use an eye dropper to suck out the adults. I also did weekly dips of all my frags and removed quite a few egg clusters. Look for small white, round (almost donut like) clusters in a clear mucus. The eggs and mucus can be hard to remove, I had to use tweezers to get the eggs off.

 

[TanksNStuff]

Hope you can get of them Paul. Do you happen to know which vendor you bought these zoas from? Not trying to give someone a bad rep, but others who bought from them might want to be warned to look out for this pest.

 

[PaulM]

Yep, that looks like a Zoo eating Naudi. I battled them for almost two months in my BioCube. I would wait till lights out and check the tank with a flashlight and use an eye dropper to suck out the adults. I also did weekly dips of all my frags and removed quite a few egg clusters. Look for small white, round (almost donut like) clusters in a clear mucus. The eggs and mucus can be hard to remove, I had to use tweezers to get the eggs off.

I did see eggs and removed them. I have been watching and picking them out with tweezers and dipping the zoos again. Figures my luck when I decide to switch over to a zoo/softy tank. lol.