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barstoolblues · 1 year

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who is your faborite ocean girl…

thank you for asking :D I love dorid nudibranchs they are the ideal shape for animal. they look like a cartoon mouse made of jelly but their "ears" are actually rhinophores, which are kinda like what they smell with! and their tail is actually their gills! also nudis are hermaphroditic in that they have both male and female reproductive organs at all times as adults instead of being able to switch between so they are literally all nonbinary.

(species shown: monterrey dorid, blood-spot dorid, nanaimo horned dorid, cockerell's dorid, pink dorid, spotted leopard dorid)

look how squishy they are :) I have 2 sea lemons and a spotted leopard in my lab that im currently taking care of so they are dear to me :)

technically sea bunnies are dorids but there are so many more and they are so cute.

also they lay squishy eggs in spirals attached to rocks which look SO COOL

#ask #sea slugs #nudibranch #dorids #epipelagic #intertidal

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heartnosekid · 2 months

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the dotted nudibranch (jorunna funebris) | zoegetswet on ig

#stim #nudibranchs #sea slugs #sea creatures #sfw #black #white #brown #dorid nudibranchs #gastropods #molluscs #the dotted nudibranch #jorunna funebris #i think that's the name of it let me know if it's not #animals #underwater #nature #ishy gifs #postish

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briery · 1 year

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Baby sea slug, Chromodoris willani.

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birdblues · 10 months

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Variable Neon Slug

#variable neon slug #Nembrotha kubaryana #Gastropoda #Heterobranchia #Euthyneura #Nudipleura #Nudibranchia #Euctenidiacea #Doridacea #Polyceroidea #Polyceridae #Nembrothinae #Nembrotha #nudibranch #sea slug #dorid nudibranch #upl

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wikipediapictures · 4 months

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Alloiodoris lanuginata

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seekdestr0y · 5 months

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Half Moon Bay, CA

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will-bonna · 19 days

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one must imagine hunter happy :(

based on blood spot dorids

#my art #rain world #rainworld #slugcat #scug #slug #sea slug #blood spot dorid #hunter #rw hunter #rw #rw scug #i’ll probably do riv or gourmand next so stay tuned!!#i go back to school soon tho so art might slow down #or maybe i’ll sacrifice my sleep and keep going at a normal rate lol #anyways goodnight :)#feel free to draw these designs btw!!#would love to see them as well so tag or reblog or smth IDK HOW THIS APP WORKS LOL

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stingray-blast · 8 months

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trip to wikipedia

#digital art #my art #marine life #marine animals #sea lug ❤️#sea slugs #blue sea dragon #sheep slug #lettuce sea slug #chromodoris #dorid #fishblr #floydposting

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orowyrm · 9 days

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Is keeping sea slugs difficult? I love them and probably won't get them anytime soon because cats but if I ever do...

i’d say it’s pretty difficult, yeah. depends on what species you’re looking at, but all nudibranchs (and ‘things-that-get-labeled-as-nudibranchs-even-though-they-technically-aren’t, like the blue velvet slugs i just got) are very picky eaters and will often Exclusively eat one type of food down to species. the ‘easiest’ are probably lettuce slugs, as they’re algae grazers, but even then some say they’ll only eat certain species of macroalgae.

i have two species of slugs in my nano reef right now— berghia nudibranchs and the blue velvet slugs. i bought them because i have an excess of pest animals that they both prey on exclusively (aiptasia anemones for the berghia and flatworms for the velvets) and can’t control these pests via chemical means (for the safety of the other animals in my tank) or mechanical (they’re very hard to fully remove and i have hand tremors anyway), but it’s often accepted that if you don’t have a good supply of what these guys eat, they’ll starve to death pretty fast.

of the two, i’d honestly say the berghia nudis are generally easier to keep - lot of people will breed them and just keep a separate tank full of aiptasia to feed them with, since they’re very fast growing anemones. blue velvets are a bit harder because they’ve got short lifespans as-is and flatworms are hard to get ahold of except for by accident, while some people purposefully culture and sell aiptasia as feeders.

i’m taking a STRONG gamble with my slugs, and honestly i’m only doing it because i have a fair amount of confidence in my ability to maintain good water conditions, but even then it’s not bulletproof. they’re one of those things where even if you do everything “right”, they still might not thrive because we don’t really know them as well as we know, say, shrimp or corals just yet. for me this is really my only option for handling my flatworm problem, so i’m taking that risk, but it may not work out and i’m prepared for that outcome.

i’m hoping the will continue to improve when it comes to getting better at keeping and breeding these animals, though, because they’re very cool! while i can’t say i’d want to see them wild-caught in the pet trade, the ability to aquaculture them would be a huge step. and it would be wonderful to see them in aquariums more often :)

#i tend to have mixed feelings on the aquarium hobby when it comes to marine livestock #while it’s still not uncommon for people to keep unsustainable wild caught animals #i feel as though the general opinion among more experienced aquarists reefkeepers especially is a lot more mindful #but exotic pet ownership in general is suffering from the social media effect so (shrug) ethics are wobbly #however!#i wholly understand your love of sea slugs hehe ^_^ me too!!!#if there was some way to keep dorids healthy and happy that would be my dream

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colorsoutofearth · 1 month

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