Found something on my Zoas

[jpassinetti]

I don't know what it is, and it's too small to take a picture sorry. I noticed for the past week a small tiny bunch of my zoas were not opening up. I noticed today why that was. I think it may be a sea cucumber or something. It was tiny like a 1/4 the size of a pencil eraser. It had neon green hairs sticking up on its back and they had a glowing shine to them like some fish do which is why it caught my eye. I scraped it off and put it on a rock and it started moving pretty rapidly. It went to another zoa colony and now those guys closed up...I dont see any signs of it eating anything so not sure if it's just cleaning them, but they are not wanting to come out...any ideas?

 

[jpassinetti]

Yeah I took it off and put it in the sand bed, and its got antena like a snail, but what looks like hairs of some kind on its back and moves pretty quick.

 

[SushiGirl]

Take it out. Sounds like a nudibranch and if it's going to zoas it's probably eating them.

 

[jpassinetti]

Yeah that's exactly what it was...hope it didn't lay eggs. I identified it by looking it up online. says it can look like what it's eating so it kind looked like the zoa it was on...crazy. I got it out of there. Thank you.

 

[SushiGirl]

No problem. I keep waiting for this to happen to me LOL.