greentherapy
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About a month ago I purchased a small amount of live rock from my local store. I believe it's from the Caribbean. It wasn't like the normal almost lifeless 'live rock' you usually see around. It's caked with coralline, feathers, soft corals. Even came with a few invertebrates. It's crazy stuff. The longer it's in my tank the more stuff keeps appearing and growing.
A couple days ago I noticed my 'daisy coral' wasn't opening and looked off color. I was afraid it wasn't doing well cause my urchins favorite spot to hang out is on a rock across the way and his spines agitate the daisy and cause it to close up and not reopen.
Well inside of it I found multiple of these 'white slugs' and an egg sack. I have seen just one crawling around before but didn't think it was a nudibranch because it's so small and it's body is perfectly smooth except for it's eyes sticking up. Now that I find it in this dead coral I can't decide if I think it killed it or it's just taking advantage and eating the dead tissue.
Please advise! There are new enough of them I'm not quite sure how to rid the tank of them if I have to.
A couple days ago I noticed my 'daisy coral' wasn't opening and looked off color. I was afraid it wasn't doing well cause my urchins favorite spot to hang out is on a rock across the way and his spines agitate the daisy and cause it to close up and not reopen.
Well inside of it I found multiple of these 'white slugs' and an egg sack. I have seen just one crawling around before but didn't think it was a nudibranch because it's so small and it's body is perfectly smooth except for it's eyes sticking up. Now that I find it in this dead coral I can't decide if I think it killed it or it's just taking advantage and eating the dead tissue.
Please advise! There are new enough of them I'm not quite sure how to rid the tank of them if I have to.