Is this nudi bad for coral??

[sensei]

I am quarentining some live rock and I found two of these. not sure if this are the bad nudis??

Thanks

 

[KJ]

Elysia sp. Good CUC. https://www.google.com/search?q=ely...Q_AUIBigB#safe=off&tbm=isch&q=elysia+aquarium

 

[sensei]

Thanks for your answer,
I am curing LR rock now.
my setup is a qt fishless tank with water circulation and light. temp is nice in here. I plan leaving rock in there 76 days for any fish disease cyst taht may come on rock to die.

rock is full of life. It came from sea here in central amercia. I made sure rock was never dry and came in bucket with sea water to my qt LR tank.
how can I make sure no bad hitckers are carried to my reef tank?

thi is how rock looks:

Thanks

 

[KJ]

Your live rocks are looking great, I would be concerned a little bit about the bubble algae. Look like you gonna have a lot more strange Hitchhikers pooping up soon

 

[Dsnakes]

Great diversity on that liverock for sure! I’m with @KJ on the more hitchhikers to come. Keep us posted

 

[cristata.reef]

That is some crazy nice live rock! Where'd you get it?

Also I'm semi-doubting the Elysia ID. Might be a small Aplysia species (a type of sea hare). Any chance you could find it again and post a pic with white lights on (ie shine a flashlight or something on it)

 

[sensei]

That is some crazy nice live rock! Where'd you get it?

Also I'm semi-doubting the Elysia ID. Might be a small Aplysia species (a type of sea hare). Any chance you could find it again and post a pic with white lights on (ie shine a flashlight or something on it)

The rock is from the pacific sea in EL Salvador Central America,
here are 2 photos of same critter. please let me know what you think.

Thanks

 

[KJ]

Might be a small Aplysia species

Agree with @Sonofives ! https://www.google.com/search?q=Apl...ved=0ahUKEwj8zbD5ifrfAhWPl-AKHR_WBhMQ_AUIDigB

 

[sensei]

Agree with @Sonofives ! https://www.google.com/search?q=Apl...ved=0ahUKEwj8zbD5ifrfAhWPl-AKHR_WBhMQ_AUIDigB

Is this good or bad CUC for coral?

 

[KJ]

Is this good or bad CUC for coral?

Good CUC

 

[sensei]

Good CUC

Thanks!
How can I make sure no bad Critter are carried from LR to DT?

 

[12gallonsofhex]

Thanks for your answer,
I am curing LR rock now.
my setup is a qt fishless tank with water circulation and light. temp is nice in here. I plan leaving rock in there 76 days for any fish disease cyst taht may come on rock to die.

rock is full of life. It came from sea here in central amercia. I made sure rock was never dry and came in bucket with sea water to my qt LR tank.
how can I make sure no bad hitckers are carried to my reef tank?

thi is how rock looks:

Thanks

Wow, that's some great looking live rock. I just dont see any real life on live rock at lfs anymore. Good find!

 

[jabberwock]

Thanks!
How can I make sure no bad Critter are carried from LR to DT?

I don't think you can prevent that. You can mitigate it through observation and removal. Look at night with a flashlight.

So did you just walk down to the ocean and gather those rocks yourself?

 

[cristata.reef]

Yup that's a small sea hare. Could be a juvenile or maybe one of the dwarf species. Either way, good find

 

[sensei]

I don't think you can prevent that. You can mitigate it through observation and removal. Look at night with a flashlight.

So did you just walk down to the ocean and gather those rocks yourself?

I friend knew were to find these rock, it is not in every beach, so he help me and it was hand selected from the ocean.
this is how it looks with white lights:

I started all my tanks with dry rock but I have had problems with GHA and or other kinds of algae, but this rock is so full of life and coraline that I am not sure if algae will grow easilly over it. I am not sure if I do not have the bacterial diversity needed with the dry rock I started like in the ocean and this is why nutrients are not filtered so eficiently. I am not sure if using LR from sea like this one will have benefitial effects in a reef?

I can take the crabs that I find out, since they could get a fish but I am mostly worried for other kind of pests like worms or other that could eat coral and would be difficult to sea.
I am not even sure if this pests would survive a coral less tank after the 76 days I plant to quarentine this rock? I ask becuase I know AEFW would die in the absense of acropora. I am not sure if it is the same for monti eating nudis or zoa pests, were the pest dies in the absence of the coral?

can you please give me your thoughts about all these?

 

[jabberwock]

I think your rocks are going to be amazing!

I don't really know what you should do, this kind of thing does not really happen in the US as far as I know. It is probably illegal here. Coastal areas are largely protected. The federal government has jurisdiction over them in the US.

Maybe you can run a homemade trap for awhile to see if you can remove some worms and crabs. I think careful observation and patience will go a long way.

 

[sensei]

I found this crabs. are they good or bad ones?