ID please on this Sea Slug??

[twizztedbz81]

Found 2 of these guys on my live rock today. One was a bit smaller than the other. Then it disappeared, later I found it sitting on one of my clove polyps so I snagged him out. Anyone have any idea of what this could be? The 2 black dots are actually antennae.

 

[Mranderson]

If those black dots are what I imagine you say antennae then my assumption is a nudibranch. A gastropod. Essentially a sea-slug. Snail with out a shell. Mostly wanna worry what it eats, less what it is. With that one no idea. And it came in on live rock… could eat anything really.

 

[twizztedbz81]

Thanks, upon doing some deeper research on different types of Nudi's, this one I found out to be one that tends to feast on soft corals. I found him on one of my Glove polyps and removed him. So he dies. Once I see his friend he'll be going too.

 

[pagojoe]

It's an arminid nudibranch. They do indeed feed on clove polyps.



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