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Received coral shipment from LFS yesterday and this thing was attached to bottom a frag disk. I have it isolated, I have never seen anything like it....is it good or bad? it's 3/4" long. slug, cucumber, nudibranch.
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Looks like a cucumber. Does it have tentacles on top of it's head? Looking at it closely looks like a Navanax Sea Slug.
 
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I think it's a sea slug and bad! Not reef safe because they will devour your clean up crew.
 
Received coral shipment from LFS yesterday and this thing was attached to bottom a frag disk. I have it isolated, I have never seen anything like it....is it good or bad? it's 3/4" long. slug, cucumber, nudibranch.
Slug.jpg
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That is an Arminid nudibranch (taxonomic family Arminidae), probably a Dermatobranchus species - these eat some corals:
The creature above looks like Dermatobranchus striatus, but with a white head and slightly more white-spotting. It might be a different species (there quite a few in the genus, including some that don't have official names yet), but I'd be surprised if it's not a Dermatobranchus sp.
https://en.seaslug.world/species/dermatobranchus_striatus
they're octocoral-eaters, so they may feed on softies, GSP, gorgonians, etc.
 

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