Tritoniopsis Elegans!?!?!?!?!?

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I had noticed this under my Colt Coral over a month ago. It was much smaller and i thought it to be a sponge of some type. For the last six weeks or so my Colt Coral has been slowly shrinking so i fi ally decided to move it. This was under it.
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Looking at bad nudi pics, i believe this might be a Tritoniopsis.
What say the the pros and should i oull it out immediately.
I am thinking it got big sucking the life out of my Colt Coral
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I am confident it was eating the soft coral it was under.
Hopefully the coral will recover. Nudi is out and in an isolation cup, but now what do i do with it? What do you feed one, i stead of soft coral?
 

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agreed. solid ID. and cool critter, though destructive.
Tritoniopsis Elegans(sea slug forum)
this page has lots of accounts of theses guys coming in on soft corals.
 
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Colt Coral disolved to nothing within 4-5 days of removing Nudi branch. I would have thought it would have tried to get better but it was like removing it is what killed it?
 

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Beautiful and deadly for soft corals.
 

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