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Old 05-07-2002, 01:42 AM
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Default Lettuce Nudibranch (Slug) Elysia crispata

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Originally posted by TRIGGER_HAPPY:
Anybody seen these eat Flatworms yet?
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Maybe you mean these cool looking nudibranches:

http://www.marinedepotlive.com/1223794.html

Darn, I lost another lettuce nudibranch today. All that's left is the head. I swear someone's eating it. I don't see how it could float up and go through any of my powerhead intakes. Its gated pretty good. Of course, they always get killed while I'm at work and never when I'm at home watching them. Err.

They seem to do a great job eating the hair algae/bryopsis down to the roots though. This morning, I saw stubs of algae growing back on a part of rock that I scrubbed last week. But just now, that part of the rock has been mowed down by the lettuce slug lying nearby with no algae stubs around that area.

[ 06 May 2002, 22:00: Message edited by: Sam W ]
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