id creature

[camz28]

I have never seen this creature it has a shell body , ifound 5 with in 3 days they come out at night , ihave some of my zoos disapear so i started to look at night and found this , i took them out and flush them because i dont want to take any chances , the tank is a 29 gal 80 % zoos , any help would be appreciated thanks

 

[ViPeR_930]

They're stomatella snails - great algea eaters. No need to flush them, they're not the ones eating your zoos.

 

[mickey57]

....Best pic my camera could get at the time...Zoo eaters?

 

[camz28]

thanks for the response , now i feel safe i did not know they were snails , you learn something new everyday , thanks fellow reefers

 

[supernareg]

yes mickey 57... thats a nudibranch.... there are a couple that dont eat zoos, but many that do eat them... just flush em all

 

[mickey57]

..Thanks.......debating on rather to dump all of these corals..Acans,ricordia & the zoos that they came in on.What do you guys think.....This pic is of them in my Q tank,They have been in here for 2 weeks....I would sure be ****ed if I infested all my tanks for these corals were to be going in different tanks:mad2:
.............Mickey
*****

 

[CoralNutz]

Looks like it has a hard shell on it? It doesn't look like a nudi to me...

Check these out... (Thanks Melev for the great id pages...)

http://melevsreef.com/id/snails.html

 

[CoralNutz]

Ooops.. these pictures didn't show up for me the first time I loaded the page. This one does look like a nudi unlike the first pics...

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7682614#post7682614 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mickey57
....Best pic my camera could get at the time...Zoo eaters?

 

[mickey57]

.....camz28,sorry I hijacked your thread,I am out .Thanks Coralnutz

 

[Monkey_Bone]

Coralnutz: that IS a zoanthid eating nudibranch.

 

[jessiesgrrl]

Dip it! Dip it!

You know, I get great satisfaction out of dipping newbie frags now. It's awesome to see the much hated zoa eaters die in Lugols/FW. Very satisfying. Almost as good stress relief as watching my panther grouper eat. LOL


Laurie

 

[tgcreef]

mickey-

I work at an lfs and we had some similar nudis on a few rocks of zoos for weeks and could not get rid of them then we added a few mandarins and they took care of that problem like a champ

good luck

- Tim

 

[mickey57]

...Thank Yall,I have gotton rid of 8 so far.All I have read though................nealy impossible to get rid of them...but since these are containd in a Q-tank...weee shall see what happens.I will try the lugols but putting one of my dragonettes in there is out of the question
.............Mickey

 

[gemini aquarius(t)]

yeah dont dump um they still have a hope just freshwater dip them like every couple of days and watch the crap that comes off!

 

[jessiesgrrl]

No way would I dump an Acans... or a zoa... lol

For the record, my mandarin is a crazy little hunter. MUAH! to the mandarins for keeping tanks relatively safe from critters...


Laurie