Hello fellow Saltines,
I thought I would share with you the marvels of this little Lettuce Nudi (I believe he might actually be a sea slug as opposed to a nudi according to webpages about these guys).
My tank is about 15 months old and has been stabilizing on its own and the uglies have started to subside albeit slowly. I've been struggling with turf algae and some red film that might be cyanobacteria. About a week ago I was at my LFS to pick up an order and I saw this very cute/beautiful "thing" in one of the tanks and when I inquired about it I was told it was was Lettuce Nudibranch and it eats algae. Well I have had a bunch of different CUC in my tank but all of them seemed to be a bit lazy in their cleaning duties so I thought "why not". Even if this nudi turned out to be lazy he is seriously awesome looking. Take a look at the pic of one of my rocks. The entire right side has been stripped of algae and I just noticed my sandbed is almost clean. This wee nudi has been miraculous! The first pic shows the nudi to the right of the coral and the second pic is the rock. My other rock is almost just as as clean.
Now I'm a bit concerned my little nudi might run out of food. Anyone know what these guys can be fed in lieu of algae? Sinking algae pellets? Nori? Something else?
I thought I would share with you the marvels of this little Lettuce Nudi (I believe he might actually be a sea slug as opposed to a nudi according to webpages about these guys).
My tank is about 15 months old and has been stabilizing on its own and the uglies have started to subside albeit slowly. I've been struggling with turf algae and some red film that might be cyanobacteria. About a week ago I was at my LFS to pick up an order and I saw this very cute/beautiful "thing" in one of the tanks and when I inquired about it I was told it was was Lettuce Nudibranch and it eats algae. Well I have had a bunch of different CUC in my tank but all of them seemed to be a bit lazy in their cleaning duties so I thought "why not". Even if this nudi turned out to be lazy he is seriously awesome looking. Take a look at the pic of one of my rocks. The entire right side has been stripped of algae and I just noticed my sandbed is almost clean. This wee nudi has been miraculous! The first pic shows the nudi to the right of the coral and the second pic is the rock. My other rock is almost just as as clean.
Now I'm a bit concerned my little nudi might run out of food. Anyone know what these guys can be fed in lieu of algae? Sinking algae pellets? Nori? Something else?