Re: Aquarium mystery
March 4, 2005
From: June A. Gritmon
Hey Doc:
Thanks for your reply. They aren't 5 inches, they're 1/2 inch. Now I just pulled off about 5-6 of these guys tonight and one this morning (one was on the same leather and the other 5-6 were on my clove polyps). What will eat these guys? I heard some wrasse will eat them, but I don't know specifically what kind. Please help!! They really crawl into the clove polyps are are hard to get out even with tweezers. Help! :(
June
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Gritmon, J., 2005 (Mar 4) Re: Aquarium mystery. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/13276Dear June,
Thanks for clarifying the length. I would have understood 0.5 inches - I guess I missed the '.'. I really can't offer a solution to your phenomenon. I am of course biased and have considerable sympathies for the slugs, which are only doing what they have evolved to do. I suspect not much will eat them. Most soft-corals have nasty chemicals in their tissues to deter animals from eating them. It is most likely that the slugs steal these chemicals and store them in their own bodies to protect them from predators. Unfortunately a fish that will eat the slugs is also likely to eat the soft-corals as well.
Sorry about that,
Bill Rudman
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