Does anyone here collect sea slugs?

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Hiya

I was wondering does anyone here like to collect different type of sea slugs like these little ones

I have the blue with the yellow edge seaslug(5th pic) but it hasn't moved for 3 days, i'm not sure is it really dead since sometimes his orange antenna retracts and pops back up.

 

[VacavilleFC3S]

all nudibranch have VERY specific diets and are pretty much impossible to keep long term.

 

[Drix]

OUt of curiosity what does your twisted nudi eat?

Aside from that, theres very few nudi's that can be kept for a reef. Theres the lettuce nudi that eats hair algea, theres a blue velvet for flatworms, and I think theres one for aptasia too, just can't remember the name of it. Other than that I don't know any that you could keep around for very long.

 

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I just found out mines only feed on sponges : /

 

[Elysia]

Most sea slugs have very exacting diets. In general, you will be hard pressed to keep any nudibranch. Of course, not all of those slugs pictured above are nudibranch, but even some of the herbivore sea slugs have very specific diets. They can be killed by a number of other things in a tank, too, so it isn't just their diet that needs to be considered.

 

[pagojoe]

Yup, you'd really need your own BIG section of reef to keep them, and if you had all the correct ingredients and proper habitat, they'd spend all their time hidden. Of the ones you have pictured, a couple a will eat algae, one is a flatworm and the diet is probably not known, one or two eat other nudibranchs, and the others are finicky sponge or ascidian eaters. Trying to keep a lot of them in the same tank would get complicated quickly.

Cheers,



Don