Naudi Branch

[macpegg]

Has anyone got a good link for these? as i think i have one. pure white, with what it looks like little flowers coming from its back. I think it was attached to a coral i have just purchased.
( correction on spelling ) " Naudibranch ".
Heres a PIC. that i have found that is has close as i can that looks very similar:

 

[Navarre]

Yep its a nudi!
NOt sure which type though. Did it come on any new purchases? If so then its probably what its been feedingon. It will also look very much like its food source so look for anything with white polyps etc.

 

[macpegg]

Yep its a nudi!
NOt sure which type though. Did it come on any new purchases? If so then its probably what its been feedingon. It will also look very much like its food source so look for anything with white polyps etc.

i thought i saw some thing moving on a rock where a coral sat, i just thought it was a cocoon at 1st, coz its kinda flat and spread, but something was moving inside. then 2 days later this morning its sat on the front of the glass. bang in the middle. im hoping its not a coral eating one. i`ll take a pic 2nite, did`nt have time this morning, and im at work.

 

[Navarre]

if it has polyps on its body then its a corak muncher If not then its an anemome muncher but i doubt that one.

 

[macpegg]

tried to add the pic. but pic too big, so i searched for the exact one one on the net and i found this. It likes soft corals. so i`ll have to keep an eye on it. Definetly a beutiful sea slug.
Always nice to have a nice hitchiker for free!!

 

[Aquascaper]

Having had a Nudibranch my advice would be...........get rid of it

There is not a lot know about these and their diet is very specific, get it wrong and you either lose some corals or you lose the Nudibranch.

You may be ok with losing a few corals but when mine died it polluted the whole tank and killed a lot of my fish and corals.

Unless you can be 100% certain what it eats I would remove it.

 

[macpegg]

Having had a Nudibranch my advice would be...........get rid of it

There is not a lot know about these and their diet is very specific, get it wrong and you either lose some corals or you lose the Nudibranch.

You may be ok with losing a few corals but when mine died it polluted the whole tank and killed a lot of my fish and corals.

Unless you can be 100% certain what it eats I would remove it.

I know it likes munching on me cauliflower looking corel, it actually camouflages against it, i had this coral 7 months before i realised it was slowly detierating, i thought it was dying slowly, but then i saw the nudi on me from glass of the tank. the it went back to the same coral. i reckon it will prob only eat that coral. so im leaving the nudi in the sump, until i find an altnerative food source. It may be breeding as there is white rings around the base of the rock were it always sits. so i hope its not..

 

[Navarre]

There is no alternative food source. nudis are specialist feeders and will not accept any other food than the food they have been designed to eat. Therefore if your nudi eats your cauliflower coral then that is all it will eat and no matter how hard you try it simply will not eat anything else.
You have a choice now. Starve it to death or let it eat your coral and then let it starve to death It wont even eat a different colour cauliflower coral so even trying to purchase another once the old one is dead will probably not work

 

[macpegg]

such a shame. pitty the coral cannot grow as fast as it can be eaten. farewell nudi...