Naked Slug

Any idea what this thing may be?

 

a naked slug

 

yes a naked slug, but anybody know if this is okay?

 

any more pic's?

 

Well, the first rule of slug and snail photography is that they all look the same from the bottom, LOL. Of course, you'll remember that next time, but the next person who takes a pic of the bottom of the foot requesting an ID won't have read this...

It's probably a nudibranch. It's long and skinny enough to be an arminid, one of the species often associated with clove polyps. If you have one, you probably have more. If it has an exposed feathery gill on the back, it will be a harmless dorid nudi instead. I'm guessing that the back is going to be smooth, though. Manual removal is pretty much your only option if it turns out to be an arminid. I can't see enough definition be give you a really good guess. If you want to take it out and photograph it in a dish of water (from the top) I'll take another swing at it.

The Sea Slug Forum - Dermatobranchus spp.

Cheers,



Don

 

it says they eat the soft polyps...what can i do? I lost him now

 

hello? 2 days and no answer

 

You can try to catch him when you see him again, or you can take out any likely polyps and see if you see any more hiding amongst/under them? The "manual removal" part that I included in the last post was actually what you could do, LOL.

Cheers,



Don