Okay, i have seen two of these nudibranchs crawling around my tank for a while and i am wondering what they might be. Every time i see them, they are on some kind of algae: Bryopsis (HA), calipura, or other macro. I have never seen them on the red ogo. I checked some books and i think it might be Elysia Ornata.
I have three pics of them. The pics might all be of the same one or of each, i am really not sure. At one point i did see two at the same time.
Samuel
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Got it.
It is a species of Oxynoe and feeds on caulpera. I found it on the Sea Slug Forum.
Interestingly, i can nail down exactly where this came from. All of my live rock was aquacultured off the coast of Florida. When i got it, the rocks were covered in a variety of caulepra types. This little bugger must have been feeding on them. Interestingly, it survived the cycling of the tank okay.
Samuel
"If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.... There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region."
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Ch. 1.
http://religiousspiritualism.wordpress.com
interesting slug, and a hardy one !! that is something you dont see everyday.
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