URGENT - Any Lettuce sea slug / Nudibranch owners ? Need help, can’t find much of anything on them

[PokeFish]

 

[nanonøkk]

Yea sort of

yeah i’d try it out the second one looks a little more like bryopsis then the first to me and that new picture looks like gha

 

[PokeFish]

yeah i’d try it out the second one looks a little more like bryopsis then the first to me and that new picture looks like gha

The new picture is just thinner strands of the big clump

 

[vetteguy53081]

It does not eat bryopsis and prefers an aquarium with live rock so that it can graze on algae. They are referred to as lettuce nudibranch although they are not nudi but slugs. The Lettuce Sea Slug incorporates the chloroplasts (the portions of the cell responsible for photosynthesis) from the algae into its tissues, and thus relies on photosynthesis for part of its energy. Pump intakes and drains can harm the Lettuce Sea Slug, so care should be taken to screen these off. It is sensitive to high levels of nitrate and will not tolerate copper-based medications.
They feed by sucking the chlorophyll out of algae and uses it to achieve their green coloration. For their size they consume more algae than similarly sized snails and hermit crabs most of the time, but can also rely on photosynthesis at other times making them less effective cleaners. Lastly, high water flow can stress them and therefore are best under moderate water flow.

 

[PokeFish]

It does not eat bryopsis and prefers an aquarium with live rock so that it can graze on algae. They are referred to as lettuce nudibranch although they are not nudi but slugs. The Lettuce Sea Slug incorporates the chloroplasts (the portions of the cell responsible for photosynthesis) from the algae into its tissues, and thus relies on photosynthesis for part of its energy. Pump intakes and drains can harm the Lettuce Sea Slug, so care should be taken to screen these off. It is sensitive to high levels of nitrate and will not tolerate copper-based medications.
They feed by sucking the chlorophyll out of algae and uses it to achieve their green coloration. For their size they consume more algae than similarly sized snails and hermit crabs most of the time, but can also rely on photosynthesis at other times making them less effective cleaners. Lastly, high water flow can stress them and therefore are best under moderate water flow.

If they don’t eat bryopsis what kind of algae they eat?

 

[nanonøkk]

The new picture is just thinner strands of the big clump

yeah that might just be gha then bryopsis has a fern look to the top of it

 

[vetteguy53081]

If they don’t eat bryopsis what kind of algae they eat?

The film often found on live rock and glass. For GHA. . . Snails such as Turbo grazer, astrea, nerite, trochus and pin cushion urchin

 

[ReefDragon420]

It does not eat bryopsis and prefers an aquarium with live rock so that it can graze on algae. They are referred to as lettuce nudibranch although they are not nudi but slugs. The Lettuce Sea Slug incorporates the chloroplasts (the portions of the cell responsible for photosynthesis) from the algae into its tissues, and thus relies on photosynthesis for part of its energy. Pump intakes and drains can harm the Lettuce Sea Slug, so care should be taken to screen these off. It is sensitive to high levels of nitrate and will not tolerate copper-based medications.
They feed by sucking the chlorophyll out of algae and uses it to achieve their green coloration. For their size they consume more algae than similarly sized snails and hermit crabs most of the time, but can also rely on photosynthesis at other times making them less effective cleaners. Lastly, high water flow can stress them and therefore are best under moderate water flow.

Thank you but I’ve read this on a few websites I’ve purchased them from over the last several months, however I need more specific type of algae such as folks are suggesting they have seen there’s eating such algae like bryopsis as we do not have traditional live rock. We are using a canister filter and it has one inlet, the suction is not strong and have witness them crawling across the intake with no issue, however we have since wrapped the intake with chaeto just to be on the safer side of things. I do believe we did not feed it correctly as it slowly lost its color and shrunk. We’ve been researching with failed results and recently found this reef2reef and have asked questions here with great results. Our lights are about 100par @ 22” deep, should that be sufficient? I do not know very much about lighting and it is an LED setup. They do move around most of the day but have yet seen them actually consume much, they have preferred the Mexican and prolifia macros over the chaeto and dragons tongue. Folks are suggesting bryopsis, ulva and sea lettuce.

 

[PokeFish]

Thank you but I’ve read this on a few websites I’ve purchased them from over the last several months, however I need more specific type of algae such as folks are suggesting they have seen there’s eating such algae like bryopsis as we do not have traditional live rock. We are using a canister filter and it has one inlet, the suction is not strong and have witness them crawling across the intake with no issue, however we have since wrapped the intake with chaeto just to be on the safer side of things. I do believe we did not feed it correctly as it slowly lost its color and shrunk. We’ve been researching with failed results and recently found this reef2reef and have asked questions here with great results. Our lights are about 100par @ 22” deep, should that be sufficient? I do not know very much about lighting and it is an LED setup. They do move around most of the day but have yet seen them actually consume much, they have preferred the Mexican and prolifia macros over the chaeto and dragons tongue. Folks are suggesting bryopsis, ulva and sea lettuce.

Ulva and sea lettuce are the same thing haha

 

[ReefDragon420]

As the name suggests

 

[nanonøkk]

here’s another thread maybe you can try growing some of the algae they recommend as well as film algae and such and yeah like stated before they don’t actually consume it

Thread 'Elysia Crispata Observational Study TWZ'
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/elysia-crispata-observational-study-twz.855960/

 

[vetteguy53081]

Thank you but I’ve read this on a few websites I’ve purchased them from over the last several months, however I need more specific type of algae such as folks are suggesting they have seen there’s eating such algae like bryopsis as we do not have traditional live rock. We are using a canister filter and it has one inlet, the suction is not strong and have witness them crawling across the intake with no issue, however we have since wrapped the intake with chaeto just to be on the safer side of things. I do believe we did not feed it correctly as it slowly lost its color and shrunk. We’ve been researching with failed results and recently found this reef2reef and have asked questions here with great results. Our lights are about 100par @ 22” deep, should that be sufficient? I do not know very much about lighting and it is an LED setup. They do move around most of the day but have yet seen them actually consume much, they have preferred the Mexican and prolifia macros over the chaeto and dragons tongue. Folks are suggesting bryopsis, ulva and sea lettuce.

Red light/red hue promotes algae , just be careful on how much is being produced so that you dont get overwhelmed with GHA. Bryopsis is a thick, non chlorophyl type of green and likely not a food source.
To correct myself- They DO eat Green hair algae (I said dont) and use snails if amount gets to be too much.

 

[ReefDragon420]

Ulva and sea lettuce are the same thing haha

Too funny

Red light/red hue promotes algae , just be careful on how much is being produced so that you dont get overwhelmed with GHA. Bryopsis is a thick, non chlorophyl type of green and likely not a food source.
To correct myself- They DO eat Green hair algae (I said dont) and use snails if amount gets to be too much.

i do see them hitchhike on snails here and there. The crawl all over the tank mostly during daylight hours my guess due to photosynthesis. Just unsure why our first one ended up dying and would rather not loose our others. It seemed to be a slow process as we’ve had it a couple months it wasn’t like we added it and it died in a few days or a week. But we did try and research why it slowly changed colors and shrunk with no luck. Hoping to figure out the cause in the case it was something we are doing incorrectly for them.

 

[ReefDragon420]

Hold on maybe I do have bryopsis

@PokeFish what algae can you throw together for me including some ulva and maybe even some gha if folks have seen them eat it. I don’t think we have any the more I look I think it’s more cyno

 

[ReefDragon420]

@PokeFish what algae can you throw together for me including some ulva and maybe even some gha if folks have seen them eat it. I don’t think we have any the more I look I think it’s more cyno

Don’t forget bryopsis too if they decided that’s what y’all have ? Lol let me know appreciate it.

 

[PokeFish]

Don’t forget bryopsis too if they decided that’s what y’all have ? Lol let me know appreciate it.

Sure I can I can ship it to you by tommorow just tell me your adress

 

[ReefDragon420]

Sure I can I can ship it to you by tommorow just tell me your adress

Can you shoot me an email? [email protected] please and thank you.

 

[a.t.t.r]

It does not eat bryopsis and prefers an aquarium with live rock so that it can graze on algae. They are referred to as lettuce nudibranch although they are not nudi but slugs. The Lettuce Sea Slug incorporates the chloroplasts (the portions of the cell responsible for photosynthesis) from the algae into its tissues, and thus relies on photosynthesis for part of its energy. Pump intakes and drains can harm the Lettuce Sea Slug, so care should be taken to screen these off. It is sensitive to high levels of nitrate and will not tolerate copper-based medications.
They feed by sucking the chlorophyll out of algae and uses it to achieve their green coloration. For their size they consume more algae than similarly sized snails and hermit crabs most of the time, but can also rely on photosynthesis at other times making them less effective cleaners. Lastly, high water flow can stress them and therefore are best under moderate water flow.

These pretty much exclusively eat bryopsis and will ignore all others.

 

[ReefDragon420]

These pretty much exclusively eat bryopsis and will ignore all others.

We received some bryopsis and still lost another. I found out they SHOULD like Penicillus and halimeda. Those two plants should be here tomorrow. We shall see.

 

[a.t.t.r]

Only when

We received some bryopsis and still lost another. I found out they SHOULD like Penicillus and halimeda. Those two plants should be here tomorrow. We shall see.

Only when the algae is young usually.