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I watched it climb up the side and now it’s going back down. It appears to have legs, wings, antennas and a wispy tail. It’s white with some pink or orange in the abdomen area. It’s super tiny, smaller than a grain of dry rice.

These are the best pictures I could get. My phone wouldn’t hardly focus on it. Any ideas?

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I watched it climb up the side and now it’s going back down. It appears to have legs, wings, antennas and a wispy tail. It’s white with some pink or orange in the abdomen area. It’s super tiny, smaller than a grain of dry rice.

These are the best pictures I could get. My phone wouldn’t hardly focus on it. Any ideas?

3D640ED2-6D84-40A6-9BE7-369942F9DA73.jpeg


8893F775-0927-4755-BEB5-62D80E1A2F37.jpeg


2CBBC392-3A7A-418A-B34C-6BCF388C3B69.jpeg


CB989061-196A-4BAC-BBA3-AA71BBB3E93F.jpeg


ED22F75A-E256-4EF3-831F-7F91AFDBF272.jpeg
That's a nudibranch. Do you have any zoas? Looks like the zoa eating variety
Montis too (as mentioned above)
 
I have a tank of live rock at the moment...does it eat anything else? Is that as big as it gets? Is this something people get rid of?
 
I have a tank of live rock at the moment...does it eat anything else? Is that as big as it gets? Is this something people get rid of?
No they tend to eat one thing, whether it is zoas, Montipora etc. Yes they stay really small. And yes you don't want them in your tank if you want to keep those types of corals.
 
I used to keep a strain of these as pets! Haha. The food pellets they came with were always a mystery to me, I suppose it was chunks of coral...?
 

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