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Posted: February 01 2013 at 3:16am |
While I was in doing some work in the tank tonight, this creature came cruising across the front glass:
I know it's a nudibranch but of what variety I have no idea, I haven't had a predation problem of any kind in the tank, there was a weed anemone that went missing though. Thoughts?
Edited by aquablue - February 01 2013 at 3:25am
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Posted: February 01 2013 at 3:33am |
there are some anemone eating nudibranches out there, i'm not sure what variety that one is though. It sure is pretty, but i would definitely try to research it some more to see what it is and what damage it could potentially cause before you set it free in your tank again.
Sorry i couldn't be more help, but its definitely a cool looking one thanks for sharing.
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Posted: February 01 2013 at 3:44am |
He's in his own little container hanging in the tank right now, I'll keep him there till I figure out what he is exactly. He doesn't resemble the zoanthid eating nudibranchs, He does however resemble one type of berghia I saw while googling, Berghia coerulescens (Wikipedia) 
He would've had to have been in the tank for months and I haven't had any coral of any kind show any signs of predation... I'm stumped lol. I guess it's possible he's that type of berghia while the more common one in the trade is the Berghia verrucicornis, but I'm just making observations at this point.
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Posted: February 01 2013 at 5:05am |
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that's awesome! If you don't want it, ill take it lol
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Posted: February 01 2013 at 7:40am |
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He's great looking.
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Posted: February 02 2013 at 11:41am |
I think it's safe to say my guess that he's a berghia coerulescens was correct, I got a hold of a weed anemone and he went right for it:    Chowing down happily.
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Posted: February 03 2013 at 9:26am |
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So would he go for a RBTA?
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Posted: February 03 2013 at 10:18am |
Looks like they only go for anemones in the aiptasia family, like the other berghia.
I've got a rock anemone in the tank that hasn't been touched, but he went right for the lightbulb anemone (close relative of aiptasia). There was a lightbulb anemone on a rock in the tank that went missing a while back, I usually just killed them like aiptasias but I hadn't got that one yet, he beat me to it.
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Posted: February 03 2013 at 11:00am |
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That is awesome!!!
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Posted: February 03 2013 at 11:21am |
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That thing is cool. Nice pics! Thanks for sharing.
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Posted: February 03 2013 at 12:12pm |
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Freakin Awesome!
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Life is good....right?
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Posted: February 03 2013 at 12:57pm |
I'll have to try to get some pictures that aren't from a phone, definitely the strangest hitchhiker I've ever gotten, and the coolest. I decided to call him Slurms Mackenzie, shopped pic related: 
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Posted: February 03 2013 at 1:17pm |
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What a total baller haha. I'm jealous.
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Posted: February 03 2013 at 2:16pm |
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Posted: February 04 2013 at 6:21am |
Wow now that is just awesome!!!
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