What can you tell me about this beauty?
- Thread starter Bry17nyc
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- Midtown East, Manhattan
Looks like a pajama nudibranch. filter feeder. mine is good.
Not a filter feeder. Possibly Hypselodoris bullocki .
Nudibranch tend to feed on one specific type of item (not just any sponge, but species of sponge) and generally starve to death in home aquaria as it's next to impossible to provide them with the needed diet.
Nudibranch tend to feed on one specific type of item (not just any sponge, but species of sponge) and generally starve to death in home aquaria as it's next to impossible to provide them with the needed diet.
- Location
- Midtown East, Manhattan
Oh wow. Gonna return mine then. i have the chromodoris quadricolor for about 2 months and was told it was a filter feeder at the lfs. Made sense at the time when I saw the 6 nodes sticking out of its back. So much so that I didn't bother to research. I should have known better.
- Location
- Duluth, Minnesota
Made sense at the time when I saw the 6 nodes sticking out of its back.
Those are gills
They are called Branchial Plume's. The name Nudibrach means "naked/nude-gills".The horn like structures on the head are called Rhinophores, meaning "nose-bearing" and are for smelling.
You have either a Hypselodoris bullocki or Hypselodoris apolegma and looks more like the later.
Those are gills
They are called Branchial Plume's. The name Nudibrach means "naked/nude-gills".The horn like structures on the head are called Rhinophores, meaning "nose-bearing" and are for smelling.You have either a Hypselodoris bullocki or Hypselodoris apolegma and looks more like the later.
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- Location
- Duluth, Minnesota
All nudibranches are predatory animals and some are very specific to what they eat, even the species. Yours > have only been found feeding on a blue-purple dysideid sponge of the genus Euryspongia.
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