Anyone identify this please.

I just saw this thing hiking round the tank. Anyone know what it is?

 

It looks like a nudibrach or nudibranch. The name or species I can't recall. Is it a pure white color like it appears in the photo?

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/nudiidfaqs.htm

Jim

 

If i remember correctly these smaller white nudibranches eat zoanthids.
There may have been a post here last month.
I also have last months Coral magazine on them.
http://www.coralmagazine.com/backIssues/octNov04.htm
I will flip through it this evening for you and report back.
It is worth double checking

 

Yes Jim, it's pure white in colour, and is moving slowly about the tank.

Edit: it's stopped moving now, it's been removed. We've spent a shed load of cash on the tank, and not taking a chance with something nasty. I've no idea where it came from but it's not living in our tank if it's doubtful.

 

Its a Tritioniopsis elegans nudibranch. They eat soft corals.


http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=triteleg

 

Rustynuts,
I had one that looked just like your pic. The legs on mine looked like polyps and it was all white.

 

careful some of those eat anemones for lunch!!!!!

 

Many thanks. He's gone anyway and the page you pointed me to has been bookmarked.

 

Definitely a nudribranch and their really is only one that is acceptable to have in a reef tank. The others either die quickly, or in this case eat corals etc. Good call in getting rid of it!