slug is eating my leathers... HELP!

[Strider85]

This morning I spotted a Cuthona poritophages, a slug that I hear is rumored to eat corals (and has been eating ours at the LFS, due to the fact I witnessed it this morning when I turned lights on.) What eats this slug? Would a large CBS do the job? We'd like a natural solution, something reef-safe (with the exception of these snails of course!)

Thanks in advance everyone,

Chris

[Russel P]

C. poritophages "should" only eat porites corals. What is being bothered at the shop?

[V]

no idea, tweezers & a torch..lol , ok so im reachen, but im sure one of our slug lovers will know.

[Strider85]

We have a 125 gal 6 foot tank that's a showcase of a lot of our soft corals and a few open brains, and we've been having the hardest time keeping leather alive. With the exception of finger leathers, all the other leathers have been disintegrating around the base and main 'stalk'. When I turned the lights on and came out to the department, that big fluffy guy (thanks for the pic V!) was wrapped around a coral and quickly dismounted and scurried for cover.

I admit that it may have been foraging on an already dying piece of coral, but this little guy might be the reason we've been having a hard time with those corals.

There are a few pictures of him attached as well, sorry for the fuzziness, iPhones are iHorrible at taking closeups.