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    Posted: January 16 2014 at 7:20am
found this guy on a coral i purchased recently wasn't sure if it was some form of a sea hare.  Anybody ever seen one of these before, should i remove it from my tank?  He's been in there for about 2 weeks now and staying on that set of corals, he is kind of hard to see but he's the small guy with green spikes on his back.  Disregard all the algae my water got out of waco and is now back under control.
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Looks like a nudi branch and if it been on your zoas its probably a zoa eating nudi
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I would say at least pull it, put it in a container you can get a good pic of and let our resident bug expert (and paranoid to the nth degree) and engineer tell you for sure.  (yes Nikki, I just called you paranoid!!!  But we still love you anyway!!!)
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thanks guys, i'm new to the saltwater aquarium and didn't even know about the nudi's.  I looked it up and found it on another website and they have a pic of the same thing, it was eating their zoa's too so i'm gunna pull him before work.
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Make sure you keep checking the frag for new ones, or dipping every few days--there can always be egg sacks that will hatch out a new batch!
Was that in there yesterday? Casper--WY windier than ?

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I would put him in a container and see if Nikki wants him.  She loves collecting weird bugs and such.
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It is definitely a zoa eating nudibranch Ouch Well done on the photo.


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