The Weirdest Thing...
Let me start from the beginning...
The nudibranch:
I introduced a nudibranch to my tank during after moving everything over from the old tank and letting it settle.
Nudibranch was fine and happy and fat and a joy to watch. EXCEPT it liked to swiggle toward the outflow strainer on occasion. It got stuck once that I had to pull, yes pull!, it out of the strainer as it almost ready to be sucked in! Amazingly it survived and still swiggled around after being tugged. It was very squiggy...
1 month in, I went away on holiday for 5 days, everything was fine when I came back. Except no nudibranch :(
I suspected it has fallen to the deaths of the sump strainer
So to the current events, It been 1 month since having not seen the nudibranch. I was doing my weekly duty of cleaning and siphoning the dust out of the sump when I found:
----------------- A BABY NUDI-----------------
Its no bigger than 5-7mm, cant tell the colour. Is it possible that my nudi layed eggs somewhere before its timely death? or did it regenerate from a piece of its body like platyhelmithes? May there be a possibility or more nudi's in the sump?
This little thing is so cute! I have some small broken pieces of live rock in my sump, there may be some more hiding. I guess Im going to have to wait!
Weird... I did scratch my head after observing this tiny organism. :D
The nudibranch:
I introduced a nudibranch to my tank during after moving everything over from the old tank and letting it settle.
Nudibranch was fine and happy and fat and a joy to watch. EXCEPT it liked to swiggle toward the outflow strainer on occasion. It got stuck once that I had to pull, yes pull!, it out of the strainer as it almost ready to be sucked in! Amazingly it survived and still swiggled around after being tugged. It was very squiggy...
1 month in, I went away on holiday for 5 days, everything was fine when I came back. Except no nudibranch :(
I suspected it has fallen to the deaths of the sump strainer
So to the current events, It been 1 month since having not seen the nudibranch. I was doing my weekly duty of cleaning and siphoning the dust out of the sump when I found:
----------------- A BABY NUDI-----------------
Its no bigger than 5-7mm, cant tell the colour. Is it possible that my nudi layed eggs somewhere before its timely death? or did it regenerate from a piece of its body like platyhelmithes? May there be a possibility or more nudi's in the sump?
This little thing is so cute! I have some small broken pieces of live rock in my sump, there may be some more hiding. I guess Im going to have to wait!
Weird... I did scratch my head after observing this tiny organism. :D