nulibranch care..

[blacknails]

Hey guys....

I just bought 2 nulibranches... the boss of R*born kinda called them flying nulibranches cause they have 'wings' at their sides and I think can swim short distances thru water....

I ain't excatly sure of their species though...

Anyway... I placed them in my FOWLR tank (not my larger reef tank cause I know the danger they pose) full of macroalgae with very lil other LS... Cleaners, urchins etc....

I read somewhere that they chow on algae (sponges and the like too but my FOWLR tank has none) and wanted to ask how true that was...

How do I keep and maintain these beautiful creatures and what excatly do I feed them with? Thanks for advice!!!

[chinmo]

tink they r spanish dancer, r they red and very huge size as compare to the usual tat alwalys for sale? don tink they surive long. maybe there's someone in the forum has sucessfully maintain them?

[FuEl]

No one to date has kept them successfully...it's even harder to find out what they eat in the wild exactly.

[Dave57]

used to have a black humpy piece which hitchhike on my LR.

it survived through my cycling and i think its thriving as its always on the move, always muching something and gain some weight too!

but i dump it a few days before i add my fish.

[blacknails]

Hey man you got it!! It's the spanish dancer.... Absoloutely stunning animal... Simply amazing.... Beautiful....

However it's pretty sad to know that noone in this forum has so far been able to maintain these creatures..

Hope someone who has kept these amazing creatures before will stumble upon my thread...

Anyway thanks for all the help so far.... They're alright so far and hope that they will stay that way....

Problem with nudibranches is that there seems to be too little info about them respective to their beauty...

Yet many people I know have claimed to have maintained nudiranches and so I decided to try what I can to maintain them...

Thank you guys so so much....

[blacknails]

Hey there, guys.... My Spanish dancers still seem perfectly fine after a few days of keeping them.... It's simple stunning to see them 'fly' thru my tank....

Anyway, I still hope to get some advice on keeping them so any is welcomed yah? Thanks....

What should I do if they do die on me? Activated carbon?

[FuEl]

A few days is not a very long time considered their lifespan. They could just be slowly starving to death.

[Dazza]

Yeah slugs are pretty specialised feeders. Some lfs will tell u they feed on algae but except for the lettuce slug, the rest dont . Some will feed on sponges n soft corals.

[Hondace]

I have 2 sea slugs. My white sea slug is always feeding on the blue sponge. My purple sea slug doesn't like it but it seems to be feeding on the algae on my glass (3 weeks liao still surviving).

u can try buying the blue sponge at Lorong Halus.

[FuEl]

5 months or above for a specialized-feeder nudibranch can be considered quite successful...

[blacknails]

Sigh... I got a bad feeling my slugs won't live for five months... Sigh...

I'll get some sponges for my spanish dancers... Hope they don'y die on me too soon...

What are their lifespan anyway?

[FuEl]

Sigh... I got a bad feeling my slugs won't live for five months... Sigh...

I'll get some sponges for my spanish dancers... Hope they don'y die on me too soon...

What are their lifespan anyway?

No one knows their lifespan in the wild..it is hard to estimate life spans of most specialized nudibranchs as very little people have chances to keep them to their full lifespan in aquaria..not to mention the difficulties of estimating the lifespans of wild nudibranchs...

Other more well understood species like lettuce nudibranchs should have recorded lifespans in captivity already.

[blacknails]

Anyone here has a pic of the lettuce nudi? Might wanna get it if I come across it.... Since I already set up a nudi species tank already...

[Dazza]

Yeah a nidu tank wud be most interesting esp if u r keeping a nano tank. I got 7 of these white nudi by accident. I bgt a nice big chunk of blue sponge for 12 bucks. After 1 day then discover inside got these white nudis. Last count there r 7 now big n healthy nudis.

[blacknails]

Hey congrats, Dazza.. Hope your nudis will be 'bai2 bai2 pang4 pang4' Hehe....

My spanish dancers are still alive so praise God...

Any pics of the lettuce nudis?

[Dazza]

http://www.marinedepotlive.com/1223734.html

Saw some very beautiful nudis at pasir ris yest. Especially a pair of Bright reddish pink with a bit of yellowish spots ones. There are many others very nice lookng ones as well. If u intend to keep a nudi tank, maybe u can go n chk them out.

[blacknails]

Hey thanks... I just read about the spanish dancer nudi in your website and my god the reports aren't optimistic... You guys think I should remove my nudis now? Sigh...