Nudibranch ID?

[minus9]

Found these little guys roaming around. Nothing seems to be bothered by them, but I don't like strangers in my neighborhood.

 

[pagojoe]

They are good guys. They eat spirorbid worms, the ones that make the little white coils on your glass.

http://www.seaslugforum.net/showall/vaysfeli

Cheers,



Don

 

[minus9]

Thanks! Yes, I have a ton of spirorbid worms on the back wall and in the back chamber. Very cool.

 

[Wolfex]

Very cool and pretty color. Too bad you don't have a magnifier.

 

[minus9]

These were taken with my phone. I'll try to take one with my old school macro lens from my 30 year old Nikon.

 

[hotelbravo]

sorry to hijack your thread but I found one of these yesterday that looked almost EXACTLY like these only it was tanish brown not red. is this still a beneficial kind??

 

[pagojoe]

Probably not. The tannish brown ones that are shaped like that without the external gill are usually arminid nudibranchs and feed on soft corals. These little red ones are tiny. The arminids are usually larger.


Don