ethereal beauties but they're wiping out my zoas
 

lately i've noticed a vanishing zoa colony but i put that down to natural process. for last few days noticed same thing happening to a once thriving green xenia patch that was next to the disappeared zoa. flipping over xenia rock and i found this covey of translucent bluerimmed beauties. hate to flush them away and so set up a 2 gal tank just for them. just hope my zoa productions can match their appetites.

oooo pretty

Can i rent them?

Pretty... Almost makes me want to start a softy tank and ask to have a pair of them from you.

Wow cool find , what color zoas where they eating?

Neat. What is that?

nudibranch
 

almost certain these are nudibranch specie. finished off a green centered zoa colony and were working on my green xenia patch.

Something else is probably eating the xenia (it's probably not a xenia if it's green, but anyways..). Nudis tend to have very specific diets, so I suspect you may have a different wonderful little critter doing a number on your other soft corals.

Same thing I was thinking.... dammit, why can't I be lucky enough to find something like these under a rock? These little beauties could sure solve my out of control zoanthid problem.

That's pretty neat, and beautiful too.... too bad it wasn't a patch of majanos you noticed disappearing.:lol:

Just found 2 myself . Was trying to figure why my Sympodium was not doing well . They were on the underside of the frag. Probably waiting for darkness to come out and eat some more or hiding from my wrasses.

Foud this thread.

http://www.themoneytimes.com/feature...701710179.html

Chris

I would also check that something else might be wipping out your Zoas. These most likely were the thing wipping out your green xenia.


Sympodium in case people have never seen it.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/DiversDen...+7&ddid=119993

Chris

:eek:, might just answer a few strange events.