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Found this in my tank and have no idea what it is.

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It does look like a Nudibranch, (sea slug=no exposed gills, Nudibranchs have exposed gills) I also thought cucumber though. More likely the former. I also have no idea on species. If it's a Nudibranch they have highly specialized diets and unfortunately almost all of them are nearly impossible to feed in captivity.
 

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Try looking up Bushy-Backed Nudibranch (Dendronotus frondosus) to see if it might match. Many different versions. Any idea where geographically it might have come from?
 

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It does look like a Nudibranch, (sea slug=no exposed gills, Nudibranchs have exposed gills) I also thought cucumber though. More likely the former. I also have no idea on species. If it's a Nudibranch they have highly specialized diets and unfortunately almost all of them are nearly impossible to feed in captivity.
In the interest of passing on correct information:

All sea slugs have exposed gills. Not all sea slugs have branching gills. All nudibranchs are sea slugs. Not all sea slugs are nudibranchs.
 

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What ever it is , if you don’t know what it is , take it out .
If it was me and I left it in , there would be hundreds of them, with stressing corals ( my luck)
But in general these things tend to look like what they eat .
 

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