Australia and Nudibranchs/Sea Slugs.

[reefsaver]

Hypothetically if you were Australian and you were struggling for months to find a distributor in your country to purchase a specific Nudibranch you have researched in depth, and it is illegal to import pretty much all marine animals in Australia without a license. And you didn't want a license but would give your dying son up to own a Nudibranch. How would you go about it?
This is all Hypothetical of course


If it means Zoo level equipment to own one I still want to know what it would require.

 

[NoahLikesFish]

You could just Ask the government fora permit And then buy one. What does that thing eat it looks cute

 

[elysics]

It's not so much about equipment, it is about the need to breed the thing that they eat. Which could be slow growing sponges, corals, tunicates, anemones, other things.

The first step is to look for ones with known diet, the second one is to get that diet animal and figure out how to breed it, the third step is to get the nudibranch

Or go for sarcoglossans instead, those eat algae and look similar

 

[NoahLikesFish]

Are sarcoglassans really hard? It says they eat like macros and stuff. I’m gonna have a calurpea bed in my tank they could eat

 

[NoahLikesFish]

I’m going to try getting lots of types of inverts like shrimp porcelain crabs arrow crabs snails hermits things like nems sea cucumber and other stuff mostly from live rock

 

[ChiCity]

I’m going to try getting lots of types of inverts like shrimp porcelain crabs arrow crabs snails hermits things like nems sea cucumber and other stuff mostly from live rock

nudis have always fascinated me….

that said, most of the critters you mentioned will probably kill your nudis.

(the last one tho… sheesh!)

 

[NoahLikesFish]

Me too. I want them for biodiversity and they are cute

 

[elysics]

Are sarcoglassans really hard? It says they eat like macros and stuff. I’m gonna have a calurpea bed in my tank they could eat

Depends on species, different species like different algae, though many like some varieties of Caulerpa and some even chaeto if I remember correctly, don't have the paper at hand
Many keep Elysia crispata, though it might look a bit plain

 

[NoahLikesFish]

Do nudibranch like lettuce sarcoglassans nuke your tank when they die? my friend says only sea apple can nuke your tank nems cucumbers and nudis dont do anything

 

[elysics]

Do nudibranch like lettuce sarcoglassans nuke your tank when they die? my friend says only sea apple can nuke your tank nems cucumbers and nudis dont do anything

I guess some might exude some toxins but I haven't heard of nuked tanks

And sacoglossans aren't nudibranches, important difference, nudibranches are pretty much all carnivores, sacoglossans herbivores

 

[NoahLikesFish]

liveaquaeia says they are not poisonous so they could work probably

 

[NoahLikesFish]

if I find nudibranch eggs on my live rock should I remove them?

 

[elysics]

if I find nudibranch eggs on my live rock should I remove them?

Depends on from which one it is, could be an awesome find and new pet or the bane of your existence when they eat your montipora, do you have an image of what laid the eggs?

 

[NoahLikesFish]

No I don’t I don’t have live rock yet. My friend said that he got nudibranch eggs in the same live rock I’m getting but he accidentally crushed them. I’m not going to keep like montipora and stuff. I want dendros softies gorgs brown zoas spongss macros and things

 

[NoahLikesFish]

I’m mostly going to keep coral that comes on the live rock

 

[NoahLikesFish]

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[NoahLikesFish]

I refuse to pay like 2/3 the cost of This for funny chalk I throw in my tank. It’s only slightly more expensive and it has everything I wantv

 

[elysics]

Well if you get nudibranches on the rock, chances are that they are eating some other stuff on the rock. That other stuff is not necessarily coral though, and not necessarily something you can easily keep long term, which reflects back on the nudibranches too

 

[Murica]

but would give your dying son up to own a Nudibranch.

Yikes

 

[elysics]

but would give your dying son up to own a Nudibranch.

Yikes

Got to have priorities in your life haha