ID this interesting creature

[Mike J.]

Give us an update in a few weeks. I'd be interested in how it goes.

 

[Mike J.]

Give us an update in a few weeks. I'd be interested to see how it goes. Once it gets its zooxanthellae back it will reproduce pretty rapidly.

 

[808jaymakoa]

Got him off the rock work

 

[Mike J.]

Never a boring moment!

 

[afamousjohnson]

Sure its not a nudi??.....before you go scraping off all his ruffles

 

[Chrissy]

Kind of looks like a frilly limpet to me.

 

[808jaymakoa]

Here's a better picture of his underneath

 

[808jaymakoa]

I haven't done nothing yet. Still investigating him carefully with some chopsticks. His back is solid and hard as a rock.

 

[Mike J.]

What did you expect for a snail shell? Flip it over and take a pic.

 

[Chrissy]

I'm pretty sure it's a frilly limpet if the back is hard.

 

[bct15]

Don't get to close, it's the thing on the movie alien that attached to your face and implants the baby alien into your stomach.

 

[808jaymakoa]

his back side

 

[Mike J.]

I'm pretty sure it's a frilly limpet if the back is hard.

Yup, correct. I'm going to have to go to bed before 3:00 a.m. and lay off the bourbon when the wife's out of town.

 

[808jaymakoa]

I believe it to be a fleshy limpet.

 

[Mike J.]

sorry.

 

[808jaymakoa]

Don't be sorry man. Now is it reef safe or should I leave it in the fuge

 

[dadof4]

Yup, correct. I'm going to have to go to bed before 3:00 a.m. and lay off the bourbon when the wife's out of town.

Never lay off the bourbon even if the wife is in town.....

 

[bct15]

Don't be sorry man. Now is it reef safe or should I leave it in the fuge

Reefsafe as far as I know, clean up crew member specifically algae and maybe detritus

 

[TarHeelReefer22]

i have several of these is fuge of the black coloration and in my softy tank I just leave them alone and they graze algae and detritus. cool to see though I like to use a flash light at night and reach in and touch them just to watch them scoot away as fast as they can haha I know I am messed up in the head

 

[Intricateart]

I thought it was one of these florida nudis, but thats awesome you guys figured it out