Have a bug I need ID on.

[blk822822]

I pulled a bunch of chateo out of my refuge and put it in a zip lock bag and of course saw all the critters swiming around . Then noticed what I thought at first was mini brittle stars then realized they were swinng with there legs kinda like a squid or octopus would. Are these good ,bad, or what I don't know what they are.

 

[user 26995]

:scared:
looks like a zoa eating spider.

http://www.coralrx.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13&Itemid=21

 

[blk822822]

To many legs and its a soft bodied critter. Swims too. I've seen zoa spiders and this is something else.

 

[user 26995]

Your right, too many legs. almost looks like aiptasia. I believe there are swimming aiptasia.

 

[blk822822]

Yes we have a winner.....swimming aptasia. They can swim when threatened. Heres a video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwKVzHfZwbQ

 

[crazyfish253]

majano for sure. where did it come from?

 

[Peppie]

How fast can a bergie swim?????

 

[blk822822]

They are in my sump in the rubble and chateo......alot of them. I started to see some in the display so I got a few peppermints and they took care of it. I was going to get some of those awsome bergia but I wanted some shrimp anyways. I dont know what to do about the ones in the sump, shrimp or bergie would end up in the pump or skimmer.

 

[user 26995]

Shrimp wont get into the pump. Just throw a couple shrimp in the sump and turn the rock over every couple days so they can get to the ones in between rocks.

 

[TJL]

Go with the Peppermint Shrimp, Berghia will not eat them. They are not true Aiptasia so if you have shrimp that will eat them GREAT! A friend of mine up here ended up leaving the hobby because of these pests that were introduced through a LFS and had compltely overran his 180g killing many many $'s in high-end corals. Good luck and be very careful not to spread them any further.

Cheers, Todd

 

[Derbird]

Dear lord I didn't know these little ******* could swim. I'm going to be seeing this in my nightmares :scared::frusty:

 

[senji]

berghia dont swim they are nudis/slugs

 

[N1Husker]

Holy crap Batman, just one more thing to worry about.