Sun Coral Ninja!

[DFWMAS MO]

I took some pictures of my sun coral the other night right before lights out. It was looking good for a 5-dollar frag from an old friend.

This morning, when I got home from work I looked in there and saw what looked like a morphed version of an open coral. The only problem was, it was slowly moving and in it wake... death!


I and a pair of long tweezers removed the little bastard! Have not flushed him yet but wondering if anyone can identify him....
Also, any idea if say killer will eat anthing else besides my sun coral?

He's currently being held without bail in my sump in a solitary confinement cell.

In this picture, he is at the top right side of the coral. This was a couple days ago and I did not know he was not a piece of coral...

In this picture he's on the back side where you really can not see him.

Here he is about 10:30 cst 09/18/2007...

and another...

And the last one of him posing in the tank admiring his handy work!

Thanks for any help on IDing him and maybe some tips on keeping him around.

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

not sure what it is..but he is beautiful...a beautiful a killer..

possibly a nudibrach?

 

[KUDA]

It's some sort of sun coral eating nudibranch, so I don't think you would be able to feed it anything but sun coral.

 

[DFWMAS MO]

Folks, I know it's a nudibranc.......
What I'm asking for is the type, sp..., loaction on the planet where it resides and it's normal diet in the wild and if anyone has seen one of this .sp before and what luck in keeping.

Thanks for the help,

 

[graveyardworm]

That is one sweet looking nudi, to bad its dietary needs are probably very specific, and top of the menu is your suncoral.

 

[Jamokie01]

No one is going to be able to tell you what you want to know. Nudis may be the most mysterious inverts in the ocean, nobody seems to be able to figure out exactly what they eat. They do tend to be specialized eaters though, eating only one specific type of food, and Im guessing you just figured out what this one eats.

 

[ddm_aet]

Look up Phestilla melanobranchia
Its a cup coral eating nudibranch becomes the color of the cup coral it eats.

 

[ddm_aet]

Look up Phestilla melanobranchia
Its a cup coral eating nudibranch becomes the color of the cup coral it eats.