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Old 05-10-2008, 10:38 PM   #1
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Is This a Nudibranch?? Coral Predator?


It's tiny, pinkish, and sliding up the side of my tank. Anyone know what it is?

Thanks!
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Old 05-10-2008, 10:39 PM   #2
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it looks like a monti eating nud
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Old 05-10-2008, 10:44 PM   #3
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looks like a zoanthid muncher to me.

look at night for more on your polyps, as well as little white sprials of eggs on the sides fo the polyps when closed. brush them with soemthing to make them close up for easier inspection. They also tend to take on the color of the polyps they are eating at the time...so if yours are pinkish colored....I would look at your pink polyps first.

montipora munchers are tiny....here are pics of both...the second pic is of monti munchers and those nudis are abotu the size of just the head of the first pic of the zoa munchers




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Old 05-10-2008, 10:49 PM   #4
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looks like a zoanthid muncher to me.

look at night for more on your polyps, as well as little white sprials of eggs on the sides fo the polyps when closed. brush them with soemthing to make them close up for easier inspection
Had many myself at one time. Couldn't agree more on the zoo muncher!
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Old 05-10-2008, 11:09 PM   #5
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Oh no!!!

What do I do?
Or rather, how do I get rid of them?

Do they have a natural predator that I could get to eat them?
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Old 05-11-2008, 09:54 AM   #6
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Try just catching him. Do you have a bunch in there?
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Old 05-11-2008, 10:42 AM   #7
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Well...I found this website that was pretty helpful with suggestions...some dips and such.

http://www.qualitymarineusa.com/arti...5-0913F83DCB60

As of this morning I pulled the zoas out (i only have 4 small colonies with ~10 polyps each) and I picked off 6 of the little gross buggers. (4 were just on one colony could be where they started....)

I'm going to try the manual approach first...

Wish me luck!
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Old 05-11-2008, 11:10 AM   #8
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Good luck! Got to hate those nudis some times.
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Old 05-11-2008, 11:31 AM   #9
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make sure you look for their spiral egg sacks those are zoo eating nudi's for sure. I had them and i just sucked them out when i saw them and scraped off the egg sacks and they finally went away.
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