Help! What is this thing?

Ewww - it did not look cool - creepy looking thing! And I thought the macro shot was pretty good - even from a measuring cup.

 

Update on the zoas - they've opened back up nicely today. They look fine except for the one in the middle that turned white - I guess the thing destroyed that one polyp. At least I know what to look for now. If I have a colony mysteriously close up for longer than a few hours and don't see a hermit crab close by (the usual culprit - trampling them), I'll get out the magnifying glass and start looking.

 

wear a hounds tooth cap , smoke a pipe and voila, the female version of sherlocks holmes. elementary my dear triplemom. lol

 

Only if I can get a cap in shades of blue!

"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth." - in my case, the truth happened to be a brown zoa-eating thing. ;D

 

nudi

 

LOL yes, it's definitely, absolutely an aeolid nudibranch, and is one of the coral feeders, so you'll want to get rid of it and any others that you find. If you find one of these, there are often more hiding under the corals.

Cheers,



Don