Help Please

So i found this guy crawling up the side of my tank tonight...anyone know what he is?

 

nudibranch

 

well that was a quick fix to my problem...thanks

 

It's a nudibranch alright, but there are several thousand species with several hundred sets of feeding habits, so I doubt knowing it's a nudibranch was really a quick fix, unless you just don't like nudibranchs and remove them all on sight . I've seen this one before, but I didn't find it in my quick run-through on this slow dial-up connection. It's an aeolidiid, so you should be able to go to The Sea Slug Forum - Species List and scroll through the species under the suborder AEOLIDINA and likely ID it. If you find it on that site, you can look back under the fact sheet for the species, and it will tell you what the species eats, if it's known.

Here's another handy ID site that has thumbnails, but it isn't as comprehensive as the one mentioned above:

Mediterranean Slug Site

Cheers,



Don

 

cool lookin nudi. and as always pago is here to the rescue.lol. he helped me sort out mine. be nice if its a good one tho.

 

Well, it probably won't be a good one, but it's in the same suborder as the ones that eat Aiptasia, so you never know. Each species normally feeds on only one or a few species of hard coral, soft coral, anemone, jellyfish, other nudibranchs, etc. It probably isn't beneficial, but it may be harmless. Here's another site that has lots of nudi pics, but again, you may end up doing a lot of surfing to find what you're looking for:

Nudibranch and Sea Slug Photos Collection » Nudi Pixel

Cheers,



Don

 

kinda looks like this
Flabellina babai from Levanto, Italy » Nudi Pixel

 

Nudi