Is this a baddy? Looks like some kinda nudibranch

Creggers · Oct 4, 2020

Obviously when I put zoanthids in the tank this thing comes scooting across my glass. I haven’t had any zoas/palys in my tank until today, shut the lights off and caught a peak of this thing moving around on my glass.

He’s about an inch or so long, white, and has some bushy spots.

I’m still fishless, and my systems been set up about 30 days without any corals or anything. I dipped and inspected all my coral before adding, killing plenty of pods but this guy wasn’t on the frags for sure.

Hopefully I’m just overreacting and this is some kind of snail I’m not familiar with, but he sure looks like a nudibranch. If that’s the case, let me know best corse of action, a 6 line is probably out of the question as I haven’t added all my livestock and I’d prefer to leave that for last (if at all)....

Thanks for your help and sorry for the subpar photos...

4tanks · Oct 4, 2020

Looks like a stomatella snail Google it and see hard to tell from picture

KJ · Oct 4, 2020

Nudibranch what species? hard to tell from the pic.

4tanks · Oct 4, 2020

Can see any cerata organs that's why I think looks more like a stomatella snail do you have better picture

elysics · Oct 4, 2020

Id say nudibranch too but from the looks of it not one of the coral eating ones i know. I'd be more concerned with keeping it alive than with getting rid of it, but that "problem" will probably solve itself if that is what you want.

SHNICI · Oct 4, 2020

Photos please, if possible to see it on a rock or somewhere to have a look on the top of it. That defo will help ID it. Can't see the stomatella mouth which is almost always on the surface looking to pick up something, so probably is nudi like @KJ say, but from the photo can't get more.

Creggers · Oct 6, 2020

Couldn't get a better picture and I haven't seen it since I took it. Good to hear that it's probably not a coral eating kind. The tank was set up without coral for about 30 days and seeded with 40lbs of live rock.