Is this the bad Nudi?

[Fanof49ASU]

 

[vipjd39]

not 100% sure, but id go ahead and eradicate him.

 

[Snakebyt]

dosent look like the typocal zoa eating nudi, the run of the mill zoa eating nudi has tentacles i guess you would call them on
their back, and your pic seems not to have any on the back..

here is a pic for refrence

Hope it helps some

 

[Snakebyt]

by the way.. great pic

 

[Psychographic]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8660149#post8660149 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Snakebyt
dosent look like the typocal zoa eating nudi, the run of the mill zoa eating nudi has tentacles i guess you would call them on
their back, and your pic seems not to have any on the back..

That's probably because you are looking at the bottom of it as it is crawling on the glass. It looks like a Zoa eater to me.

 

[Snakebyt]

that is very true.. didnt think of that...

 

[Fanof49ASU]

Yeah, that's the belly on the glass. His back is covered with them.

It's in a 'holding' tank of rock that will go in another aquarium in a few months. I may hold on to him for a bit......unless he starts reproducing.....hmmm.

 

[kryppy]

Wow, that is a nice picture.

IMO, it is not a zoa eating nudi.
See that big tail thing, that looks like a
bergia. Give him some zoas and aptasia and see
which it picks. If he doesn't take either,
probably eats something you like in almost every case
with nudis that look like that.

 

[ACBlinky]

Amazing picture! I caught a little nudi the size of a small grain of rice this morning -- he was happily chewing a hole through my leather coral -- they're really interesting little critters. Too bad they want to eat our corals, they'd probably make neat pets in their own right.

 

[Fanof49ASU]

Thanks guys/gals.

This critter is actually much more white than the photo shows. The flash on my camera apparently gave him the flourescent colored tentacles. Also, this 'thing' is about 3/4-1" long.....pretty small.

What puzzles me is the snail-like under belly of this thing. On the attached zoa-eating nudi photo, you can see its tentacles fully encompass the body. On mine, it's on the sides and back.

I hate to dump the interesting critter....unless it's laying eggs on my new rock.

 

[Fanof49ASU]

Some of my friends on the RC Middle Tennessee board got a positive ID on this guy....or at least I hope they did.
They think it's a berghia.

 

[MoCha920]

that is a nice close-up great job!!

 

[RedSonja]

It does look like the nudibranch formerly known as Berghia, you're a lucky reefer to get one as a hitchhiker if it is. Do you have an aiptasia source to feed it? If not it will starve. And how'd you get it, any idea?

-Sonja

 

[kryppy]

Check it out, it looks like this one that eats Palys.

http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=aeolharr

 

[Fanof49ASU]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8666662#post8666662 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RedSonja
It does look like the nudibranch formerly known as Berghia, you're a lucky reefer to get one as a hitchhiker if it is. Do you have an aiptasia source to feed it? If not it will starve. And how'd you get it, any idea?

-Sonja

I'm collecting rock for my new 75 gal, and it came in on some of that 'new' rock.

Yes, I have some aiptasia on some of that rock.

Now that I have an idea of what it might be, I'll quit using Joe's Juice.

 

[Fanof49ASU]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8668035#post8668035 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kryppy
Check it out, it looks like this one that eats Palys.

The only difference is that the tentacles are kinda in sections on the body. I noticed this when looking at it in my tank.