Is this a zoa eating nudi???

[ranran]

I was bumping around a online vendor site who has some nice photoshop overpriced corals and saw this pic. I think thats a nudi on the lower part of the pic right?

 

[mikekman]

Hard to tell from the pic but it could be! If it is, someone better quarantine that colony and check for any zoos and eggs!

 

[Azurel]

That colony is to sweet to take chances get to dipping and checking, also get that out of there...

 

[swannL11]

My be a zoanthid eating spider. Here's link to picture.

http://www.australasian-arachnology.org/arachnology/pycnogonida/

 

[ranran]

I just thought it was pretty funny that a vendor would post a pic of a colony for sale with a pest in the same shot.

 

[ranran]

Just goes to show dip all new corals!

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10573463#post10573463 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ranran
I just thought it was pretty funny that a vendor would post a pic of a colony for sale with a pest in the same shot.

I am not surprised:
last weekend my wife and I visited a new coral store in our area. They had five huge tanks down the centre of the store. All coral was on sale--but every tank was loaded with cyano on the bottom of it
needless to say we were not won over

 

[aquarius77]

The cyano is common with newly set up tanks... "new coral store", maybe give them some time before passing judgement on them.

 

[aquarius77]

I thought it was a spider as soon as i saw the pic, i think swan is right.

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10574185#post10574185 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by aquarius77
The cyano is common with newly set up tanks... "new coral store", maybe give them some time before passing judgement on them.

I agree it just happened to be at a time when I had battled a cyano problem in my own tank.
Also I carelessly used the word new---it was new to us--its been in business for 5 years.

 

[MUCHO REEF]

Looks Spiderish more so than Nudibranchish, but I can't tell either way in the pic. Do you have macro? Either way, it would be best to remove it ASAP.


Mucho Reef