paneubert Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Ok. I read the whole "Master ID thread". I also browsed the various "normal" threads. No luck. I will get a photo next time I see one. Anybody want to venture a guess as to what I am describing...my first impression is nudibranch....but these guys are sleek, not frilly at all. 1. Looks like a speckled slug. Very slender. 2. Has 2 pronounced "feelers" or "eyes". Sort of like a garden snail. 3. Totally white underbelly but back is mottled/speckled fairly dark. 4. Not hard at all. Not a stomatella. 5. Curls up like a slug when sucked into a turkey baster. 6. Maybe a quarter inch long. 7. I find 1 or 2 each day or two. Always on the glass. So they are not something that is super rare.....I assume they came from a frag of hammer that I dipped in Lugol's solution for a long time before I added it to the tank.... So either a ton survived the dip, or they breed easily in my tank. Link to comment
doppelganger Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 sounds some what like a nudi but it kind of sounds like it could also be a flatworm of some sort? maybe take a look at http://www.nudipixel.net/? There's lots of info there tho so it might be hard to id. Link to comment
rbengal Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 +1 Sounds like a nudi to me too. Not all are frilly, they come in a huge variety of body forms. Link to comment
paneubert Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 It kind of sounds like it could also be a flatworm of some sort? The guy who I bought the coral from said he had tons of flatworms. And I thought I saw some classic looking super flat/brown flatworms being killed off from the Lugol dip. So that is why I was surprised when these totally different looking guys showed up. Maybe the guy had 2 different types of flatworms and only one was killed by the dip..... I will check out the website you linked to. Either way.....I have some Flatworm Exit on order...so we will see if they come out of the cracks when I treat with that stuff. If they die like a flatworm then they probably are one.... Link to comment
paneubert Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 After reading about 50 pages of that site....I think I found some confirmation that it is at least a flatworm.....the guy at the following link looks a lot like mine with the exception that mine look a lot more speckled/colored up. http://www.nudipixel.net/photo/00018457/flatworms/ It belongs to the family Euryleptidae. Aha! This is getting closer... http://www.poppe-images.com/photo/collecti...humb/945886.jpg Link to comment
anemone fan Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 +1Sounds like a nudi to me too. Not all are frilly, they come in a huge variety of body forms. -1 Sounds like a flatworm to me. Link to comment
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