new hitchhikers

[Ron Reefman]

I just finished up moving my wild collected snails, serpent star, sea cucumber and some algae to my 2 tanks. But I found these 2 in there as well. I think they must have been in the algae I collected.

Mantis shrimp: It will go in my 40g anemone tank. It may go after some snails and I don't mind.



I think this is a nudibranch and it eats coral polys and anemones. So it can't go in either of my tanks. Too bad, it's kind of cute. And in 20 years of snorkeling and collecting clean up crew in the Florida Keys, I've never seen one of these.

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[commod0re]

Second one looks like a sidegill slug in the genus Pleurobranchaea, but I can’t get more specific than that

Perhaps @ISpeakForTheSeas can give a positive ID

 

[KrisReef]

Give it to the LFS .

So many amazing creatures in the ocean.

 

[Ron Reefman]

Second one looks like a sidegill slug in the genus Pleurobranchaea, but I can’t get more specific than that

Perhaps @ISpeakForTheSeas can give a positive ID

Most of the members of this genus seem to have a pinched area near the front of the body and a fan further forward.

This one doesn't have that and it's antenna (or whatever it's called) is much blacker than most of the sidegill slugs that I see on the internet.

We are pretty sure it's a Brown Doris nudi (Discodoris evelinae)

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Second one looks like a sidegill slug in the genus Pleurobranchaea, but I can’t get more specific than that

Perhaps @ISpeakForTheSeas can give a positive ID

Most of the members of this genus seem to have a pinched area near the front of the body and a fan further forward.

This one doesn't have that and it's antenna (or whatever it's called) is much blacker than most of the sidegill slugs that I see on the internet.

We are pretty sure it's a Brown Doris nudi (Discodoris evelinae)

Tayuva branneri (A.K.A. Discodoris evelinae) is a solid guess - probably a sponge-eater.

 

[Ron Reefman]

Tayuva branneri (A.K.A. Discodoris evelinae) is a solid guess - probably a sponge-eater.

Yup, and toxic as well (depending on what sponges it recently ate). So not going in my tanks!