ID Nudibranch, good bad??

[aquajeep]

very pretty little guy just one an inch long.we haven't added anything new in a long time.i was trimming back red algae and this guy was on it. anyone know what this particular kind eat? hoping its not bad.

http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/...p/DSCN2966.jpg

[reefmaster12345]

Originally Posted by aquajeep

very pretty little guy just one an inch long.we haven't added anything new in a long time.i was trimming back red algae and this guy was on it. anyone know what this particular kind eat? hoping its not bad.

http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/...p/DSCN2966.jpg

it is a berghia eats aptasia so idk how it got inthere :P

[aquajeep]

colourful and helpful too.thats a first.must not eat much I've had the same few aptasia growing for a year now.lol thanks for the ID.

[reefwars]

mabe im blind but i dont see the resemblence this should help though lots of nudis to choose fromcheers


http://www.nudipixel.net/genus/

[Mandosh]

I can tell you it's definitely not a berghia. After googling...Tritoniopsis elegans, maybe, or something similar in the Tritoniidae family?

http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/19618

Apparently its a softie eater so I'd banish it to the flushable sump.

Berghia verrucicornis

[noirsphynx]

It's pretty and I can't help with ID except I know that's not a berghia.

[aquajeep]

yup here it is tritoniopsis elegans good thing i have lots of soft coral for him to eat,maybe it can rid the sump of anthelia . lol free to anyone that wants him

http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/...is_elegans.jpg

[asylumdown]

*sigh* I know those guys well. I had a 20 gallon nano filled with mostly softies, including a couple hideously expensive carnation corals. I picked up a new colt coral from one of the LFS in Calgary, then a month later went on vacation. When I got home, the colt coral was gone, and the carnation corals had been reduced to stumps. Inside the hole where the colt coral had been anchored, was about 20 of those guys, with another half dozen hiding at the base of the carnation corals.

I assume there was a clutch of eggs or a pregnant nudi on the colt coral that I didn't see when I put it in the tank.

Thankfully it was a small enough tank that physically removing them wasn't out of the question.

[aquajeep]

thats prob what happened to the yellow colt coral we had and maybe a good portion of xenia thats gone missing. i rem seeing this guy in the tank this time last year but it was so small i thought it was a sponge lol now its pretty good size.im going to put it in a container and see if it eats anthilia.i have too much of that stuff lol

[ScubaSteve]

Looks like a Xenia-eating nudi from what I can see. Can't remember thespecies name but it's not your friend.