Marine Shots

[Aquascaper]

The 'dead coral' end with 3 feather dusters, 3 red leged hermit crabs and 2 turbo snails:

The 'live coral' end with cleaner shrimp, pulsing xenia, white star polyps & button zoanthid polyps:

The 'middle arch' with disc anenomes, pulsing xenia, white star polyps, turbo snail, red legged hermit crab and psychadelic mandarin

Red starfish:

Anenome crab:

Sea Slug:

Cowrie:

"You scratch my back, i'll scratch yours"

And full tank from left to right:

Hope you all like

 

[Navarre]

Nice setup, what temperature lights are they under? the colours are very rich.

 

[Aquascaper]

Surprisingly they're still under the 9k twin 30" T8's, haven't hooked up the MH yet.

 

[Navarre]

Wow thats impressive! i was certain they were under 14K halides! very nice indeed!

 

[sunflower]

Despite having heard so much about it, I never realised your tank was so beautiful

 

[lady_tanksalot]

very impressive aqua.

love the slug

 

[Navarre]

Just seen the Nudibranch !!! (Seaslug)

What do you feed it on?
They are very specific feeders and usually only eat on 1 thing or starve to death. I would be interested in knowing what you feed it.

 

[Aquascaper]

I feed the tank with Micro-Vert for the filter feeders, granules, assorted frozen foods and occasionally live foods for the fish & inverts but nothing specific really for the nudi, I was told that it would eat leftovers and algae

It's been in the tank for 2 weeks and seems fine so fingers crossed it's found something it likes.

Is there anything I can do to find out specifically what it feeds on?

 

[Navarre]

Nudis feed on very specific things. They usually resemble the things they eat to help deter predators. So by the look sof your nudi its a coral muncher or possibly an anemone muncher. The red polyp like tenticle on its back help indicate what it feed upon. It might even be poisonous if its normal food is poisonous also.

Im afriad to asy that the success rates for these things are very small unless its food requirments can be identifed and delivered.


Best of luck with it anyway and keep us informed on its progess.

I will do some research on this as well and see if i can identify ir for you.

 

[Navarre]

I havent got a scientific name for the Nudibranch yet but here is what i have been informed about it.

I saw one of these in a local LFS and asked what it fed upon as I was concerned for my pods (mandarin) and polyps. The answer I got was that they generally feed on sponges.

Whether this is right or wrong, I do not know and left it alone.......

yeah ive seen one on rc once, and the general idea was that it was a sponge feeder. and unless you can provide it with the necessay sponges it will slowly die, as they just dont seem to adapt to different foods. Also i think it said that they can be quite toxic.

It might take you a while to find it but here is a link that should help you identifiy the nudibranch

Seaslug Forum

 

[Ava_Banana]

v. nice.......

and nice pics of the starfish and anenome crab........


.......although I couldn't find the mandarin.........I'll keep looking........

 

[Navarre]

Ok after hours of searching i have finally managed to ID this Nudibranch.

Its a Chromodoris magnifica.


DISTRIBUTION: Known only from Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and eastern Australia. Also the Philippines

Im sorry to say it is a specialist feeder and wil only eat sponges

 

[Aquascaper]

that's expensive food

i may have to swop him then

Thanks for all the info Navarre

 

[Aquascaper]

v. nice.......

and nice pics of the starfish and anenome crab........


.......although I couldn't find the mandarin.........I'll keep looking........

check out the top right-hand corner

 

[Aquascaper]

Navarre: According to the LFS where I got the Nudi from, although they are very specialised feeders they can be 'trained' just after birth to eat other foods. Apparently most of the common Nudi can do this, so if you feed the Nudi algae, polyps, etc. from birth it will retain that diet throughout its life.

Sounds plausible but, who knows

I'll keep you posted on its progress though.