Nudibranchs?

[channing]

i was wondering can you keep nudibranchs? has anyone tried?

 

[SkiFletch]

Umm, you CAN, but few people are able to do so successfully. The problem is that nudibranchs have EXCEPTIONALLY speficic diets. They typically eat one thing and one thing only. So if you do choose to keep one, you HAVE to have whatever it eats on-hand. Furthermore, many nudibranchs fill their bodies with concentrated toxins (typically from their prey) and upon death can release these toxins into the water column and "nuke" the tank (kill most living things in it).

So while beautiful, nudibranchs should really only be kept when their diets are known, and the aquarist experienced IMO

 

[Musho3210]

Zoanthid eating nudi-branch are pests, if you want you can keep them as long as you constantly feed them zoanthids, no one likes them....

 

[SkiFletch]

He didn't necessarily say zooanthid eating nudis ... In fact there are probably thousands of species of nudibranch. Maybe he wants to grow berghia for us?

 

[Musho3210]

i was just telling him the most commonly found one, and many people take care of it, actually they dont take care of it, they try to kill it but some just cant kill them until a very long time.....