Aquarium mystery

February 28, 2005
From: June A. Gritmon

Hi all!

If you could please ID this and let me know if it eats corals I'd REALLY appreciate it! I found it on one of my leather corals tonight after the lights went out on my reef tank.

Locality: 90 Gal reef Tank. Length: ~.5 inch. 25 February 2005
Found on Leather Coral.

June A. Gritmon

NYSharkLady@aol.com

Gritmon, J., 2005 (Feb 28) Aquarium mystery. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/13243

Dear June,
I don't know this species, but I suspect it is a species of Dermatobranchus, since that group do feed of soft corals. I am surprised at your length of 5 inches, which equals about 12 cm. Most species of Dermatobranchus are between 1 cm and 3 cm. If it is a Dermatobranchus, it probably is eating your leather coral
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2005 (Feb 28). Comment on Aquarium mystery by June A. Gritmon. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/13243

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