Tiny red nudi? ID Please.

[Som1else]

Has anyone seen these before? Some people have said that they look like flatworms but i dont think that they do, they appear more slug like than any FW pics ive seen. They dont have the swallow tail like a flatworm and seem to have a distinct head with feelers.
Sorry that the pics arent super clear but these are really really small like the very tip of a ball point pen so its hard to get a good pic.

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f137/dojsha/DSCN0003.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f137/dojsha/DSCN0002.jpg

[chevegan]

How neat! Here is a bump for you

[Som1else]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8951100#post8951100 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chevegan
How neat! Here is a bump for you

I hope that its just neat! They are cool looking but i like my zoos and corals better so i hope its not a bad thing.

[kass03]

Looks like a nudi (hard to say for sure from the pict.) and most are specialty feeders that they only feed on 1 thing.
Could be a zoa eating nudi. I'd look in the zoa forums on the top to see some picts and identify if it is.
Alot of zoa eating nudis take on the color of the zoa's they eat.

kass

[ACBlinky]

Looks like it could be a nudi, definitely doesn't look like most of the flatworms I've seen. Does it have anything on its back? I had pink/whitish nudis on my leather that had frilly backs, they blended into the leather perfectly.

Here's a pic of mine (they're on a plate, this was taken after removing them), not very good but maybe it'll help a bit:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a21/ACBlinky/90g%20build/nudib_cu.jpg

[LeslieH]

Some1else's animal is a rather obscure nudibranch known as Vayssierea felis. It was named for it's catlike movements (felix = cat). There's some debate as to whether there's one species or several; either way the only known food is Spirorbis polychaete worms. Although spirorbids are filter feeders & help keep tank water clean some people regard them as a nuisance since they can rapidly reproduce & cover tank walls, rocks, & sessile organisms. In the top image the nudi is crawling away from a spirorbid tube, presuming after eating the inhabitant.

[Som1else]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8951516#post8951516 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by LeslieH
Some1else's animal is a rather obscure nudibranch known as Vayssierea felis. It was named for it's catlike movements (felix = cat). There's some debate as to whether there's one species or several; either way the only known food is Spirorbis polychaete worms. Although spirorbids are filter feeders & help keep tank water clean some people regard them as a nuisance since they can rapidly reproduce & cover tank walls, rocks, & sessile organisms. In the top image the nudi is crawling away from a spirorbid tube, presuming after eating the inhabitant.

I had a ton of those worms all over my rear glass panel and now that you mention it they are mostly gone now. The nudi's are infact perched up over the worms shell. I'm just glad that they arent bad.

Here are a few more pics.

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f137/dojsha/nudi3.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f137/dojsha/Nudi2.jpg

[kittyj]

I have TONS of these things. I also have tons of Zoas, so it doesn't appear that they are eating them. I'd love to know what they are