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07/27/2006, 07:09 PM
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ID this bug Please
i have no idea what this is. is it bad. i'm pretty sure that it just feeding on the dead tissue of the acro. but i'm not sure.
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07/27/2006, 07:13 PM
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Nice pix. They are Limpets. They don't appear to be eating living coral flesh.
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07/27/2006, 07:14 PM
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it looks like a limpet to me and i think they are algae eaters, but im not too sure
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07/27/2006, 07:15 PM
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sweet, keyhole limpet!! there awesome, i have some, great grazers,
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07/27/2006, 07:16 PM
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They eat algae. The only thing bad I have read about them is that can eat coralline algae.
I have them in my nanocube. Last edited by theop; 07/27/2006 at 07:50 PM. |
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07/27/2006, 07:49 PM
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yup keyhole limpets. Algae grazers
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07/28/2006, 02:56 AM
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thanks. first time i notice them.
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