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Welcome to Reef2Reef! You need to set up a tank now so it is ready when we find a source!i found my first one digging through the filtered runoff of a coral tank at my local aquarium store! i’ve never had a tank but i’m a microbiologist and i love pokin around in places like that. i love studying minifauna like Vayssierea felis and i’ve been looking for a replacement for trixie to keep better care of after accidentally starving her :^(( that’s what we named the sea slug…i made a tiktok of her and everything! if anyone finds anyone who cultures them pls hmu!(Vayssierea felis video)
I’m looking for a couple of these to help with my Spirorbid outbreak. Do you know where I can get some shipped to me in Oklahoma.Welcome to Reef2Reef! You need to set up a tank now so it is ready when we find a source!
I don't know of any place that sells these guys. No, you can't just buy any nudibranch to help with spirorbids. Almost every nudibranch has an incredibly specific diet and will only eat a very limited number of things - most nudibranchs actually starve to death in our tanks because they don't have access to their needed food source.Has anyone found where to buy these from? Or can I buy any Nudibranch to help with my Spirorbid outbreak.
Lol so since I posted this, my tank has become populated with them. They seem to be massively growing in my refugium. They seem to spend a lot of time on the algae/cyano/dino/diatoms or whatever is growing in the refugium lol. Maybe there are baby spirorbid worms getting stuck on the filter I dunno. Hard to figure out what they're eating, but I have a LOT of them lol.Resurrecting this thread to say I’m pretty sure I have these slugs in my tank. They first showed up about a year and a half ago.
In my tank, they don’t seem to be putting a dent in the spirorbid population. To me they don’t seem like a viable control mechanism if that’s what you want them for, although there may be mitigating factors (like the fact that I have a damsel who likes to eat little critters).
They also don’t seem to harm anything else in the tank. I don’t see them on corals or anything. They’re really cute.
For scale, the trochus snail in the background is about half an inch wide.
They are not. I've had them in my tank for well over a year. They seem to self regulate, spirobid die down, they become less common. I actually have a ton of spirobid on my magnetic cleaner and these guys hang out there too. @TheBourbonReefer I have no idea if these things would survive shipping, they are super tiny. I'd be willing to try it if you'd like.Saw this thread a little while ago. . . now I see 2 of these guys in my tank. . . hopefully they are not harmful. . .
I would absolutely love to purchase some off you. I understand the possibility of them being poor shippers but would without a doubt give it a try!They are not. I've had them in my tank for well over a year. They seem to self regulate, spirobid die down, they become less common. I actually have a ton of spirobid on my magnetic cleaner and these guys hang out there too. @TheBourbonReefer I have no idea if these things would survive shipping, they are super tiny. I'd be willing to try it if you'd like.