Anyone been successful keeping Nudibranchs??

[Bob 1000]

I have a purple nudi for about 3 days now... I've read up on them and for the most part it seem's like they are not good for tanks with too many powerheads.. Or tanks that don't have a well established purple or yellow sponge tank...
If there is any other things to add to this list please feel free to let me know...
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[marrone]

It would help to know which one you have. Most of them have specific diet and eat things like sponges, anemones and zoa's. These things are usually very hard to supply to keep one alive for sometime. Most just disappear in the tank and die from starvation. The people that have been able to keep them usually have sponges in the tank and the seem to survive on them, though they usually live in the rocks and you never see them until you move a rock.

 

[Bob 1000]

diet from starvation.

Do they choose to diet from starvation or is this something that happens when the other fish talk about their weight.lol

Purple nudi I believe...

 

[marrone]

Do they choose to diet from starvation or is this something that happens when the other fish talk about their weight.lol

Purple nudi I believe...

Well when they're dieting the other fish tell them about how good they look, which makes them diet more. This eventually leads to them dying. I think the Clown fish are usually the ones that tell them to keep doing it. I guess they're trying to protect their anemone.

 

[Bob 1000]

Okay good because I don't have any clowns..lol

 

[SIReefer]

Nice Nudi Tony, Very Colorful, Good Luck!!!!

 

[NYreefNoob]

ive tried that one twice with no luck, found a place online that sells the spong and still no good, best of luck

 

[Bob 1000]

Thanks..

 

[Bob 1000]

The nudi is still going strong...

 

[HaloStalker]

good luck, i so want to try the blue velvet nudi but i don't want to release flat worms in my tank heheh.

 

[chazertis]

how long have you had it now?

 

[jejton]

Shouldnt you have read up on it before keeping one ? If you have, or this was a hitchhiker, disregard my statement.

 

[PhoenixOne]

I've tried nudibranchs for a while. My former LFS told me how easy they were to keep. Said they were filter feeders and gave me that freeze dried phyto. And guess what? Yup, they all died and/or disappeared. I then did alot of research afterwards(which I should of done from jump) and saw that they should be left in the wild and they are trying to tell people not to buy them from LFS's so they will stop selling them.

 

[Bob 1000]

how long have you had it now?

I've had the purple nudi since 3.21.08.

 

[Bob 1000]

Shouldnt you have read up on it before keeping one ? If you have, or this was a hitchhiker, disregard my statement.

Read up a little bit... But that's just me I have kept alot of difficult to keep animals and felt my system had enough sponge and the specific type of sponge this animal feeds on...

 

[tosiek]

Yeah its one of those animals people shouldn't be collecting and selling. We know nothing really about dietary needs of most of the nudi's out there or enough success in keeping them for more than a month without them dissapearing except for rare cases.

 

[Bob 1000]

I understand what your saying... But I don't know about collecting, but experience and an established tank is a must... Besides I special ordered this...lol

 

[BZOFIQ]

It will be gone before you know it. These belong to species tanks only. Everyone already said it so I'll say it too....Good Luck.