Can anyone guess what these are??

[Instar]

New arrivals at the farm. Do you know what they are?
They give new meaning to the word 'small'.

[Instar]

Hey - did you cheat? Yes, thats what they are and smaller than a tiny pea too.

[Brett Wilson]

Berghia indeed. Those would be fun to breed, but seems pretty interactive after all the reading I have done.

[Instar]

What do you mean by "pretty interactive"?

[Brett Wilson]

BTW the white one is hungry! I believe they get opaque when they need some aiptasia to eat.

[Brett Wilson]

Read this:
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-01/ac/feature/index.htm
I meant interactive by you have to pay a lot of attention and it's hard to keep them alive because you need to breed aiptasia as well. (they consume a lot)

[samiam_orami]

I bought a pair of these guys and they worked great
Only problem was that when the aiptasia disappeared, they did as well

http://www.seaslugs.com/

They are out of stock at the moment, but their prices are fairly reasonable

[Instar]

I have been breeding aiptasia for a while now in anticipation for this day. I have quite a few. I am sure that I will need more, but its a good start.

[Brett Wilson]

In the near future I might have some rock I would be able to lend you that has aiptasia, if you are in need. :)

[matt]

Way to go Larry; i guess that's what you needed the bio-assay salt for? Actually, I knew from the photo they were berghias, as I've been thinking of getting some myself. Good luck in this very worthy project!

[Instar]

I'll surely take donor aiptasias. I know I need many more gallons of them.
Yes Matt, thats what I want the salt for. From what I have read, that is the greatest chance for success in this.
I see that Premium Aquatics has the 150 gallon in a box on special closeout sale for $22.99. Is this good? I hope thats b/c they are replacing it with the mix in a bucket?

[matt]

Yeah, that's a good price. Watch out for shipping, though. I think aquatic warehouse is going to be stocking the salt soon.

Trying to frag aiptasias. That's a good one. I have a few heavily infested rocks in the 10 gallon you can borrow if you need a quick aiptasia fix. I used the "Joe's Juice" on them as an experiment before putting the stuff in my 110; as it turns out, the aiptasias are back with a vengance, and I've got a nice healthy copperband in the big tank just starting to go after the ones in there.

[Instar]

Matt, He's a worker, there won't be many left standing soon. That'll call for a celebration won't it?

I can use heavily infested rocks to start another tank of those pests up.

I asked AW about that salt and it didn't sound to me like they were interested in stocking it. Sure would be good if I was wrong about that.

I need some photographic type hand held lights to take pictues with. Camera just doens't focus in dim light, but here is proof these things eat aiptasia.

[JesterGrin_1]

If you want apatasia I have it lol. If you need them I need my rock back lol. If you like I can bring in rock to clean :). Since nothing else I have tried works maybe these little critters will take care of it. And I do not mean I have a few I have LOTS lol.

[Instar]

I am sure they would clean it, but, they have to get up to size first. I could use rocks to start up another tank for the food for them though. I may not give the rock back totally clean the first time, but, I am sure by the second round that is possible. All this is providing that these critters live and grow. I've never tried long term nudibranch keeping before, so, we will see.