Found this snooping around in one of my Zoo colonies

get rid of it quick...if it lays eggs you'll really have a problem on your hands. if you find more, do a quick freshwater dip with RO/DI water and that should knock them off.
 
I had that same nudie, and i'll tell you what I found out. The will take the zoas zooanthil, or whatever it is, the stuff that gives the zoas it's color and store it in those appendages on it's body. that way it is completely camoflauged.
The one I had stuck to one colony, I picked it off and killed it, then a couple weeks late I saw another.
I looked at the colony and saw a little egg sack, looks like a small cluster of white dots, so I pulled the colony out of my tank, and scraped those eggs off with a small blade. Then I stuck the colony <just bought it so it was small> and put it in a bag like the one it came in and filled it with fresh water, until it covered the colony, I then aired up the bag and shook it like hell for like 10 minutes.

Not very scientfic, not greatest idea, but it worked, that was a good 6 months ago, and I have not seen a nudi since.
 
The once in my tank were not very big, in fact the only way I noticed mine is because it was a new colony, and I am kinda wierd and try to count the number of polyps, and then compare the count to the same colony in a couple months to see my growth rate.
When I was counting the polyps, I noticed one looked funny, and it was because that booger was underneath it, and was the same frilly orange look, so looked like one polyp had to skirts.
 
The best way to catch them is to dip and inspect all incoming zoas. if you do a freshwater dip, the nudi's will either be well stunned or will fall off the colony/frag. I use a clamp light so I can readjust the angle of light as I look through the colony with a toothpick for eggs sacks (and pick them off). I usually do at least a few weeks of QT before they go intot he main tank. Once you have them, they can be trouble to get rid of. Some wrasses (I've been told) keep them under control. The one in particular is sold as a yellow coris wrasse/banana wrasse, but stays a lot smaller than most Coris wrasses (maybe 3-4"?).
 
Nudis are a pain in the butt to control especially if they start laying eggs. If you don't get all the eggs, you will get babies that grow up fast.

Also like what Twisted said, the nudis will camoflauge themselves. For example, I saw a nudi at the LFS show tank. It was among orange zoos. The nudi had orange highlights on the top of its body almost masking its body. Same with nudis I found in my blue zoos, they blended in.
 
That reminds me. I was looking through my invertibrate book and saw pictures of nudibranches upon various corals. I was straining my eyes trying to see (locate) the nudi on the corals. I thought, "where the heck is it?" and then I realized that the picture WAS the nudi itself, and not the specific coral.
The camouflage is amazing. Too bad for us though.
 
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