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Nutibranch ID?

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Awesome-Oceans
, 04-09-2012 at 10:51 AM (1339 Views)
Hey all, I am new to this whole site- but am looking for some helpp.

I woke up this morning to find that my new emerald crab had eaten a $30 coral frag- so I traded him at my LFS for a couple more snails.

I tossed the bag in the tank to acclimate and noticed I had a little hitchhiker- before adding him to my tank, I'd like to figure out what it is make sure it isn't a toxic nutibranch that is gonna kill everything or something like that.

He is white/clear- skinny and slug/nutibranch looking with small black dots on its sides and black/red ridges on its back with black/red antennae. Can someone help me out? I've looked through a bunch of species pictures online to no avail. could he just be a juvenile snail or something?

Here are some pictures:
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  1. cyano's Avatar
    Bulaceros sp is what it looks like to me http://www.nudipixel.net/species/bulaceros_sp/ which is a type of flatworm that lives on snails from my understanding, I can't find enough information on it to tell you if it is good or bad but I think I would pull it off before I added it to the tank and possibly even quarantine the snails for a little while to see if any more show up. "When in doubt rip it out"
    Updated 04-09-2012 at 01:54 PM by cyano (addition)
  2. Awesome-Oceans's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by cyano
    Bulaceros sp is what it looks like to me http://www.nudipixel.net/species/bulaceros_sp/ which is a type of flatworm that lives on snails from my understanding, I can't find enough information on it to tell you if it is good or bad but I think I would pull it off before I added it to the tank and possibly even quarantine the snails for a little while to see if any more show up. "When in doubt rip it out"
    Thanks! I gave it to my LFS- they were happy to take it, and I was glad to not have to kill it lol
  3. cyano's Avatar
    lol, good to hear, either way no matter what it was without proper identification it would have been impossible to sustain in any tank assuming it wasn't bad and sustaining itself on your livestock, lol. I occasionally "test" the lfs with quations I already know the answer to just so I know who making stuff up to get the sale. I once saw a nudi in a frag tank that I know only eats a certain type of sponge and is toxic when it dies so I asked the LFS salesman what to feed it and he said "oh they just filter feed you don't ever have to feed it anything" a week later I returned to the store to find everything in that frag tank dead and the nudi "missing" so make sure you research everything