Red/Brown flat worm predators?

Lyscer · 04/17/2006, 04:40 PM

How many of you have had mandarin dragonettes eat the red/brown flatworms? I was thinking about getting a blue velvet nudibranch but I don't want my cleaner shrimp/peppermint shrimp to eat it. I have a sixline wrasse but he doesn't seem to eat them.

afishyonados · 04/17/2006, 04:46 PM

The dragonettes will occasionally eat the Planaria, but noone can eat too much at once. Picture a habanero pepper, while some humans can stand 1 or 2, there are very few who can eat a whole plate full!
Most of the smaller Coris species and Anampses species of wrasse will also eat some.
Very few animals will eat a nudibranch. Consider it a concentrated habanero!

Lyscer · 04/17/2006, 04:48 PM

so you don't think that the shrimp will eat a nudibranch if I get one? Very good analogy btw.

afishyonados · 04/17/2006, 05:08 PM

Thank you!
Mosyt likely, the shrimp will recognize the Nudibranch as toxic. Mother nature has a way of coloring the deadly ones to warn us...

Lyscer · 04/17/2006, 07:57 PM

anyone else?

04/17/2006, 04:40 PM	#1
Lyscer Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 675	Red/Brown flat worm predators? How many of you have had mandarin dragonettes eat the red/brown flatworms? I was thinking about getting a blue velvet nudibranch but I don't want my cleaner shrimp/peppermint shrimp to eat it. I have a sixline wrasse but he doesn't seem to eat them. __________________ 68 Cadlights Versa 24" x 8 ATI Dimmable Sunpower 2 x Gyre XF-130 DIY Arduino Uno Controller with temp probes and 8 outlets ran from web interface ReefOctopus Skimmer and Eheim 1262 return Current Tank Info: 68 Cadlights Versa

04/17/2006, 04:48 PM	#3
Lyscer Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 675	so you don't think that the shrimp will eat a nudibranch if I get one? Very good analogy btw. __________________ 68 Cadlights Versa 24" x 8 ATI Dimmable Sunpower 2 x Gyre XF-130 DIY Arduino Uno Controller with temp probes and 8 outlets ran from web interface ReefOctopus Skimmer and Eheim 1262 return Current Tank Info: 68 Cadlights Versa

04/17/2006, 07:57 PM	#5
Lyscer Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 675	anyone else? __________________ 68 Cadlights Versa 24" x 8 ATI Dimmable Sunpower 2 x Gyre XF-130 DIY Arduino Uno Controller with temp probes and 8 outlets ran from web interface ReefOctopus Skimmer and Eheim 1262 return Current Tank Info: 68 Cadlights Versa

04/17/2006, 04:46 PM	#2
afishyonados Registered Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Sumter, SC Posts: 459	The dragonettes will occasionally eat the Planaria, but noone can eat too much at once. Picture a habanero pepper, while some humans can stand 1 or 2, there are very few who can eat a whole plate full! Most of the smaller Coris species and Anampses species of wrasse will also eat some. Very few animals will eat a nudibranch. Consider it a concentrated habanero!

04/17/2006, 05:08 PM	#4
afishyonados Registered Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Sumter, SC Posts: 459	Thank you! Mosyt likely, the shrimp will recognize the Nudibranch as toxic. Mother nature has a way of coloring the deadly ones to warn us...