JasonMcM Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 Me again guys! This time, I've discovered something disturbing... I have a small red starfish in my tank, and attached to it was something that I though was actually it's feeler tentacles for days. I went to try to spot feed the star, and saw the "tentacle" crawl into the stars back! Needless to say, I quickly flicked the creature into a plastic tub to isolate it. What the heck is this? 1 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 15 minutes ago, JasonMcM said: Me again guys! This time, I've discovered something disturbing... I have a small red starfish in my tank, and attached to it was something that I though was actually it's feeler tentacles for days. I went to try to spot feed the star, and saw the "tentacle" crawl into the stars back! Needless to say, I quickly flicked the creature into a plastic tub to isolate it. What the heck is this? Nudibranch of some type. Usually not good guys. it’s pretty though. 1 Quote Link to comment
JasonMcM Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 15 minutes ago, WV Reefer said: Nudibranch of some type. Usually not good guys. it’s pretty though. Oh wow, I recently removed a different nudibranch. This guy looks so different! Lots of little things coming off him and seems to have a different "viscosity" to him, for lack of a better term. 1 Quote Link to comment
WV Reefer Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 3 minutes ago, JasonMcM said: Oh wow, I recently removed a different nudibranch. This guy looks so different! Lots of little things coming off him and seems to have a different "viscosity" to him, for lack of a better term. They are such varied and pretty creatures. I found a blue one once that was gorgeous. The problem is they usually have a diet of one specific type of coral. Here’s the one I found on my blue sympodium: 2 Quote Link to comment
Tired Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 Oh, wow. That's very cool. Though, I hate to break it to you, but red linkia and fromia starfish are pretty much doomed in aquaria. They eat biofilm, and need to be kept in a massive aquarium to have any hope of getting enough. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
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