Easily Distracted
10/20/2007, 11:24 PM
I noticed that the benificial, aiptasia eating nudis (Berghia) and the nuisance, zoanthid eating nudis are almost identical in on-line pictures.
I have two tiny nudibranchs that are in quarantine with right now. I think they came as hitch hikers from the swap so I automatically thought that they are most likely bad. The thing is, they are in close quarters with a tiny ricordea, a coupe of mushrooms and a few zoanthid polyps. So far, they could care less about any of them and have been roaming around the holding tank harmlessly.
This is from the web, but very similar:
http://www.nanoreef.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/nudi.jpg
The only thing that is slightly different from mine is that the pic does not show what is either a second set of tentacles or two rhinophores behind the tentacles.
These are the factors on why I think they might be good or bad:
-Both about 3mm long - Bad or baby Good
-Have green cerata on their back - probably zozanthelae(sp) from polyps they have eaten - Bad
-They have not touched the zoanthids near them for at least 4 days - Good
Does anyone near Dublin have an aiptasia or mojano they could spare?:p That might definitively tell me what they are.
I have two tiny nudibranchs that are in quarantine with right now. I think they came as hitch hikers from the swap so I automatically thought that they are most likely bad. The thing is, they are in close quarters with a tiny ricordea, a coupe of mushrooms and a few zoanthid polyps. So far, they could care less about any of them and have been roaming around the holding tank harmlessly.
This is from the web, but very similar:
http://www.nanoreef.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/nudi.jpg
The only thing that is slightly different from mine is that the pic does not show what is either a second set of tentacles or two rhinophores behind the tentacles.
These are the factors on why I think they might be good or bad:
-Both about 3mm long - Bad or baby Good
-Have green cerata on their back - probably zozanthelae(sp) from polyps they have eaten - Bad
-They have not touched the zoanthids near them for at least 4 days - Good
Does anyone near Dublin have an aiptasia or mojano they could spare?:p That might definitively tell me what they are.