oddball freaky weird mini ninja turtle nidibranchsnail?

[BEELZEBOB]

so i found These weird AND CREEPY lil things today, sorry no pics my only camera is disposable.

but i can offer a thurough description.

you know the macro algae that has like lil bulbs instead of long branches or leaf like things?

yea good.

i got that, and today on my lunch break i was camped out in front of my tank. and noticed that a few of the bulbs were moving!?!?!

turns out its not the actually bulbs, (but i thinK their supposed to look like they are)

they look like a pea, with a mini nudibranch head, tiny like the size of this "O"

but the pea part is like a snail shell that the heads retract into (i poked one)

so i have a hoard of these tiny green snal/nudis with a nudi head and a mini ninja turtle body

any idea what im talking about? are they bad good or in between?

 

[class clown]

(i poked one)

If they are teenage mutant ninja turtles, you probably don't want to poke them too hard. Michaelangelo has been known to pull out the numbchucks.

 

[Herefishyfishy]

What did you say you were smoking? :lol:

They sound like little snails to me.

 

[charlesr1958]

They are most likely a slug and not a nudibranch, and given their description of matching the algae in appearance, I think its a safe bet to say that they feed soley on that species of algae. A few are not likely to be of any concern, but if they get to be too many, they could ruin your macro algae.

Sea Slugs and Nudibranch

Chuck

 

[BEELZEBOB]

things are weird.

 

[class clown]

things are weird.

whoa-very weird

 

[Herefishyfishy]

http://www.seaslugforum.net/showall.cfm?base=hamivire

 

[BEELZEBOB]

naw thats not it,

i found it. its berthelinia snail/slug/nudi? i think i have a caribbean species.

http://slugsite.us/bow/nudwk312.htm

http://rfbolland.com/okislugs/bertschl.html

see why i called it a mini ninja turtle?

 

[Herefishyfishy]

Pretty cool!

 

[NaH2O]

Awesome photo, and great ID. Interesting information on them, too. I'll be curious to how long they live, or what the impact on your caulerpa will be with the population you described. In a book I have there is a pic of Berthelinia rottnesti, which has a slightly different looking shell. The shell of the one in the book, looks more "dome-ish", and doesn't have the stripes like in the pic you posted. It is referred to as a bivalve gastropod.

 

[My2heartboys]

naw thats not it,

i found it. its berthelinia snail/slug/nudi? i think i have a caribbean species.

http://slugsite.us/bow/nudwk312.htm

http://rfbolland.com/okislugs/bertschl.html

see why i called it a mini ninja turtle?

It's cute!!!!!!!! Wish I had something like that. Enjoy watching them.

Anne