Pest ID

[Limpc]

Hi all,

discover a number of this creatures crawling on the walls of my main tank. (Please see attached picture).

On further investigation found more of this on a Sea mat which I bought weeks ago. Immediately isolate this sea mat from my main tank.

Seen this before ? Is this flatworm. Looks like a baby nudibranch. It's body has got some soft spikes.

Any comments please.

Limpc

[Achilles Tang]

It's a nudibranch.

I had a plague of it before... always on the glass... eating algae.

Phang has these too but he says they attack button polyps, that could explain why my buttons have disappeared these days.

If you are uncomfortable, you can remove them.

AT

[Limpc]

No wonder my buttons are in such poor state now.

What's the best way to remove them ?

thanks

Limpc

[Joe_P]

It's a nudibranch.

I had a plague of it before... always on the glass... eating algae.

Phang has these too but he says they attack button polyps, that could explain why my buttons have disappeared these days.

If you are uncomfortable, you can remove them.

AT

Limpc,

Remove the polyps from your reef...... that will first deprive these slugs of their food source... this would cause these slugs to die rendering your reef free form these pest.

Place your polyps into a quarantee tank and remove these slugs from the polyps with a tweezer. keep in the quarantine tank till there are no signs of these pest...

Polyps affected by these slugs will remain close after a while and will later die....

My entire collection was wiped out......jus as AT had mentioned....