New hitch hiker: Keep or toss?

[Xerces]

I found what appears to be one of these

Tritonia pickensi
http://www.divebums.com/FishID/Pages/tritonia_pickensi.html

Keep or toss? I have a 66gal tank with lots of corals...

http://community.webshots.com/user/xercesjpf

[Xerces]

Humm, doesnt sound the same as all I have seen it eating is algae off
the glass and rocks. It does not have any color other then pure white.

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:51:13 GMT, "TheRock" > wrote:

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>"Xerces" > wrote in message
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>>I found what appears to be one of these
>>
>> Tritonia pickensi
>> http://www.divebums.com/FishID/Pages/tritonia_pickensi.html
>>
>> Keep or toss? I have a 66gal tank with lots of corals...
>>
>> http://community.webshots.com/user/xercesjpf
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>
>
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>Is this the same thing ? YIKES !
>Found on www.wetwebmedia.com
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>Predatory nudibranch...lack of QT 2/11/04
>I noticed this creature in my nano tank about a month or so ago. It's white
>with pinkish highlights, and moves really slow. Is it some kind of worm,
>nudibranch, or maybe a sea slug. I wasn't sure if it was a coral or not.
><it is a predatory nudibranch... often cited as Tritoniopsis or Tritonia.
>They commonly come in with leather corals which is their prey. And they can
>reproduce in aquaria. A lack of quarantine use and letting this slug in can
>really make you pay/suffer. Sorry to see it my friend. You may have a hard
>lesson in front of you. These are coral eaters>
>I noticed that it moves around on one rock that has a soft finger type
>leather coral on it. Will it eat my soft coral?
><does a bear bring a Reader's Digest into the woods? Er... I mean. Yes, they
>ONLY eat coral>
>It never leaves the rock.
><please do learn and apply proper quarantine habits for all new livestock
>(corals, fishes, rock, algae, snails... everything wet) to prevent such
>pests and predators from entering your tank and causing trouble. Anthony>
>

[Xerces]

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3/xercesjpf/DSC02127.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3/xercesjpf/DSC02123.jpg

Here are some pics. Still not sure if its a keeper or toss!


On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:13:35 -0400, Xerces >
wrote:

>I found what appears to be one of these
>
>Tritonia pickensi
>http://www.divebums.com/FishID/Pages/tritonia_pickensi.html
>
>Keep or toss? I have a 66gal tank with lots of corals...
>
>http://community.webshots.com/user/xercesjpf

[Billy]

From what I can find, it's a coral predator. Get it out of there
before it breeds.

b

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"Xerces" > wrote in message
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> http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3/xercesjpf/DSC02127.jpg
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> http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3/xercesjpf/DSC02123.jpg
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> Here are some pics. Still not sure if its a keeper or toss!
>

[Xerces]

F L U S H

He did two circles before he went down!

Thanks

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:27:49 -0800, "Billy"
> wrote:

>From what I can find, it's a coral predator. Get it out of there
>before it breeds.
>
>b

[Wayne Sallee]

The thing about nudibranches is that they are very
specific in what they eat. So if that peticular coral that
they depend on, is not there, they starve. And some
nudibranches are sponge eaters. Usualy they look like what
they eat.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Xerces wrote on 2/14/2006 7:10 AM:
> F L U S H
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> He did two circles before he went down!
>
> Thanks
>
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:27:49 -0800, "Billy"
> > wrote:
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>>From what I can find, it's a coral predator. Get it out of there
>
>>before it breeds.
>>
>>b
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