View Full Version : Check out the nudie pics!!!
Debra Mark
02-03-2009, 2:44 PM
Got these two on the weekend....gotta luv em!!
Debra Mark
02-03-2009, 2:44 PM
....sorry for the crappy pics....on my phone, plus no-one EVER wants to hold still!!!!
stezatois
02-03-2009, 2:49 PM
awsome colours
The Zigman
02-03-2009, 2:51 PM
Awww man....
Why Deb?!? Why??
I came here expecting donuts.
Nice branches though
saram521
02-03-2009, 2:52 PM
They look awesome! aren't most nudibranchs difficult to sustain in home aquaria though? Save for the lettuce nudi?
Debra Mark
02-03-2009, 2:58 PM
Awww man....
Why Deb?!? Why??
I came here expecting donuts.
Ziggy...you know where the donuts are!!!
Looks nice. I never had them personally as My yellow tang eats the hair algea i had.
Debra Mark
02-03-2009, 3:23 PM
couldn't resist them....they looked so squishable...had to have them!
They look awesome! aren't most nudibranchs difficult to sustain in home aquaria though? Save for the lettuce nudi?
Yup, those 2 in the pics will be dead in a month or 2. The only food the purple nudis eat is orange sponges, something you can't grow in abundance in an aquarium so they all starve and die.. no exceptions. I always hated seeing those awesome purple ones for sale in LFS because every LFS no matter how bad they are, know when they get those there is no chance of survival.
cam191919
02-03-2009, 4:33 PM
darn shame :headshake2:
Grrrreat title of this thread
real cute little guys, I have always liked them but have also been warned abut their difficulties of being in a tank. Why would the lfs sell something that they know may not survive?
$$$ .. seriously, when you see those purple ones don't you want to buy it right away? I fell into that trap once.. bought it thinking "how bad can a slug be", then read about them online after I got home with it, and sure enough, even with some orange sponge in my tank it ate it all in a few days and died about a month later.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3364/3251213971_ef6694c755_m.jpg
Amphiprion
02-04-2009, 4:30 PM
Hypselodoris bullocki seems to be the most commonly imported species, short of Hexabranchus sanguineus. Few do well over time and all will need a permanent, sustainable food resource (and a lot of it) to do well. There are very few that can even be recommended (minus the coral-eating species, which seem to do all too well--to the detriment of your corals). Stay away from most sea slugs, in general.