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shrimpy brains
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Friend or foe?
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shrimpy brains
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Sorry for the lousy phone pics. I still dont have my camera! This little critter is about 1 and a half inches long and maybe 1/8 to 1/4 wide. mostly green, with some blue dots down the sides and a little tan pattern on it's little hump back.
Does this help??
Does this help??
swimmer4uus
Member
shoot, I remember reading this a couple days back. If my memory is correct, it's a nudibranch, algae eating. I remember it is good though.
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shrimpy brains
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Very cool! It must have been in my Seahorse tank for months! I pulled some Caulerpa out, to feed to my Cowfish and this little guy came out and cruised around the glass! It is now sitting on one of the Leaves.
You don't think the Cow will eat it, do you? Should I move it to another tank?
You don't think the Cow will eat it, do you? Should I move it to another tank?
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shrimpy brains
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Well, if anyone was wondering, I finally found this little guy! Oxinoe Antillarum!
Like Swimmer4uus said, it is an algae eater. Specifically, caulerpa eater. It also, incorporates the photosynthetic pigments it gets from eating the algae into it's mantle, thus supplieing a second way of gaining nutrition. Very cool!
Like Swimmer4uus said, it is an algae eater. Specifically, caulerpa eater. It also, incorporates the photosynthetic pigments it gets from eating the algae into it's mantle, thus supplieing a second way of gaining nutrition. Very cool!
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shrimpy brains
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Well, it is cool and not "bad"! It will eat caulerpa, but evidentally not too much. It must have come in on the caulerpa when I got it. That would have been in December, and I have pruned my Caulerpa several times!
