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**TheOldSalt** · 03-19-2005, 08:00 PM

Don't do it.
Of the hundreds of slugs species which make it onto the market, only about 3 or 4 will actually survive.
They all have very specialized diets, and most of them only eat ONE thing.

You can get one kind that eats planarians, and another that eats algae, and another that eats glass anemones, but almost none of the others will live two weeks. There are a few which only eat other slugs, and they live okay if you can supply them, but what's the point in that?

They absolutely WON'T live in a FOWLR tank, and unless the tank is HUGE and densely filled with several hundred pounds of TOP-SHELF live rock, they won't last long in a reef either.

DON'T support the vile practice of selling these animals by buying one.

03-19-2005, 08:00 PM	#2
TheOldSalt Darth Ichthyos Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,253	Re: sea slugs Don't do it. Of the hundreds of slugs species which make it onto the market, only about 3 or 4 will actually survive. They all have very specialized diets, and most of them only eat ONE thing. You can get one kind that eats planarians, and another that eats algae, and another that eats glass anemones, but almost none of the others will live two weeks. There are a few which only eat other slugs, and they live okay if you can supply them, but what's the point in that? They absolutely WON'T live in a FOWLR tank, and unless the tank is HUGE and densely filled with several hundred pounds of TOP-SHELF live rock, they won't last long in a reef either. DON'T support the vile practice of selling these animals by buying one.