Keeping Hypselodoris bullocki in an aquarium
September 28, 2000
From: Patrick Champeyrol
My favorite petshop has recently received a few Hypselodoris bullocki. It's a very beautiful slug. Do know you if they accept other sponges for eating or if they die of starvation? I have read you give to them 'Angel Formula' from 'Ocean Nutrition' and my question is do they eat it?
Thanks!
Patrick Champeyrol
pacha1@club-internet.fr
Champeyrol, P., 2000 (Sep 28) Keeping Hypselodoris bullocki in an aquarium. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/3074Dear Patrick,
If you look through the other messages on this page and on Page 1, you will see others have asked the same question. I don't know of anyone having success with an artificial food. Chromodorid nudibranchs eat sponges by rasping off bits of sponge with their radula. I would think that any artificial food would need to be in a solid block so that the slugs could imitate their normal feeding action. I don't know what 'Angel Formula' is but if it a powder or flakes I can't see how the slug could eat it.
It would certainly be interesting to find some artificial food that actually worked, but my only fear would be that if such a food was found then no nudibranch would be safe from the activities of commercial collectors.
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.
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