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reeferious
05-15-2011, 10:52 PM
lately i've noticed a vanishing zoa colony but i put that down to natural process. for last few days noticed same thing happening to a once thriving green xenia patch that was next to the disappeared zoa. flipping over xenia rock and i found this covey of translucent bluerimmed beauties. hate to flush them away and so set up a 2 gal tank just for them. just hope my zoa productions can match their appetites.

skabooya
05-15-2011, 10:55 PM
oooo pretty

fencer
05-15-2011, 11:15 PM
Can i rent them?

apexifd
05-15-2011, 11:58 PM
Pretty... Almost makes me want to start a softy tank and ask to have a pair of them from you.

toytech
05-16-2011, 12:15 AM
Wow cool find , what color zoas where they eating?

Sea Witch
05-16-2011, 12:34 AM
Neat. What is that?

reeferious
05-16-2011, 01:10 AM
almost certain these are nudibranch specie. finished off a green centered zoa colony and were working on my green xenia patch.

shrimpchips
05-16-2011, 06:48 AM
Something else is probably eating the xenia (it's probably not a xenia if it's green, but anyways..). Nudis tend to have very specific diets, so I suspect you may have a different wonderful little critter doing a number on your other soft corals.

nlreefguy
05-16-2011, 09:03 AM
Can i rent them?

Same thing I was thinking.... dammit, why can't I be lucky enough to find something like these under a rock? These little beauties could sure solve my out of control zoanthid problem.

High tide
05-17-2011, 03:11 AM
That's pretty neat, and beautiful too.... too bad it wasn't a patch of majanos you noticed disappearing.:lol:

Chowder
05-18-2011, 01:09 AM
Just found 2 myself . Was trying to figure why my Sympodium was not doing well . They were on the underside of the frag. Probably waiting for darkness to come out and eat some more or hiding from my wrasses.

Foud this thread.

http://www.themoneytimes.com/featured/20110514/fresh-evidence-cell-phones-are-killing-honeybees-id-101701710179.html

Chris

Chowder
05-18-2011, 01:53 AM
I would also check that something else might be wipping out your Zoas. These most likely were the thing wipping out your green xenia.


Sympodium in case people have never seen it.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/DiversDen/ItemDisplay.cfm?c=2733+7&ddid=119993

Chris

no_bs
05-18-2011, 02:06 AM
:eek:, might just answer a few strange events.