Hitchiker safe or not???ASAP

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  1. NU-2reef

    NU-2reef Montipora Digitata

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    I found this guy sitting on one of my pink zoa polyps so i pulled it out and placed him in a shot glass for now.

    please let me know if its worth keeping.

    my guess is that either a type of slug or nudi????
     

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  3. tarheel

    tarheel Skunk Shrimp

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    Looks like a nudibranch to me but I'm fairly new to the game. Might wanna wait for someone with some more experience. I think they are pretty much a bad thing, with the exception of a small number of specific species.
     
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  4. jptrson

    jptrson Feather Duster

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    Polyp eating nudibranch, remove your polyps and do a dip. If you don't have an Iodine dip like TMPCC at least do a freshwater dip for a minute and also look for small patches of eggs. Quarantine if possible.
     
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  5. Godbert

    Godbert Montipora Capricornis

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  6. wildreef

    wildreef Stylophora

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    There are so many of these and so many colors I went thrue sevral hundred pics , maybe this is a sub-adult
    ( i tried to identify yours but no luck. )

    If he was there in your zoa colony' he was most likely feeding upon them.
    I don't trust ANY of them , they have specialized feeding needs,
    ( commonly your corals )
     
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  7. mr40g

    mr40g Astrea Snail

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    i dont know what it is but it looks cool lol.
    sucks that it eats polyps.
     
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  9. Godbert

    Godbert Montipora Capricornis

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    +2 wildreef if you go down the list on saltcorner most of them eat sponges or corals as their main source of food
     
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    jptrson Feather Duster

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  11. wildreef

    wildreef Stylophora

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    appears from his pic and the search they refer to that one as a "metalic orange nudibranch" .
    ( and it shows it in a colony of zoa's )
    I'd watch for more, thats probly a juvinile you have there , so you might have more upon it.
     
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  12. aquaboy

    aquaboy Panda Puffer

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    Flush it, and dip the colony.
     
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