Lettuce Nudi Fragging??

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Is it possible?? This is why I ask.

About a month ago I bought a couple lettuce nudi's. One dissapeard within a week and the other did great for 2 weeks....then he met my maxi jet and lost. lol. He got a pretty significant chunk taken out of him. I'd say at least 40% of his body. He retained his head and the little lump behind his head along with the entire left side of his body. But he lost all of his frills and a good portion of his body on his right side. He continues to crawl around the same as before....just a good bit slower.
Here is the wierd part. I notice the half that got chopped off floating about the tank for a couple days. Then it dissapeard. Then about a week ago....(roughly a week from being chopped up) tons of little tiny what appeared to be lettuce nudi's were all over my rocks. A couple peopel said they were most likely flat worms, or some other kind of nudi, but as they grow I'm becoming more and more convinced that they're definately lettuce nudi's. They've at least doubled to tripled in size within the last week. They're green....with spots on their sides and frills on their backs......

so.....Is it possible to "frag" nudis? If not I'm just guessing there must have been some kind of stress related spawning that went on without my knowing about it. Any thoughts?
 
Well spawning is more likely, but not necessarily stress induced. Generally with these guys, when it's stress induced the eggs are infertile.

Of course you could also be seeing something entirely different.
 
I'll see if I can get a decent pic tonight....Hopefully that will go a long way in posatively identifying them as....whatever they are. I'm sticking with lettuce nudi's.

On a side note, I thought lettuce nudi's went through an extended planktonic stage before they actually turned into little lettuce nudi's. Wouldn't this make it damn near impossible for this to actually happen? Especially in the large numbers they've appeared in?
 
There are ate least 3 species (with a good chance there are more) called lettuce slugs and every form of development seems to be present from direct development to feeding larvae. Several people have had them breed in captivity before.
 
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