Nudibranch Search

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I brought home one of the "purple, pink and white" Nudibranchs from King Ed on Monday. Lived for about 24 hours in my tank, laid eggs, then was found lying motionless on the sandbed the day after.

While I cant share the same

they are poisonous and if they die in your tank everything croaks

experience as Christy (my tank hasn't missed a beat since) I do also caution against purchasing Nudis for home aquaria.

I also tried the Lettuce Nudis that J&L was carrying last summer in an attempt to battle my hair algae at the time. Again, had tje two survive for about 1 and 2 weeks respectively, both laying eggs then both whither away and die within 24 hours of egg laying.

It seems to me that after my recent experience, this is a common thing with Nudibranchs and seems money wasted. I've never heard of anyone locally that has sucessfully kept a Nudibranch for an extended period of time (longer than 6 months).