2 new hitchhikers

[S13<3]

to make a short story shorter i had to move a bunch of rock and ran into these 2, i want to know if thyre bad before they spread :/

#1
some kind of snail never seen one like it before, seems to move rather fast, i put him back into the aquarium hope its not a coral eater

#2
some kind of polyp? they seem to be growing fast and thyre foot/the base of the polyp is black with like silver metallic specs, hope they arent bad, i see what look slike new heads all over the rock

 

[noahm]

Hard to tell on the polyp, but the snail looks like a fairly common type of nassarius.

 

[S13<3]

yeah the snail isnt concerning me as much as the polyps just wanted to know what it was, i will get better pics of the polyps later my point and shoot camera doesnt really cut it lol

 

[wilsonreefs]

Not sure about the two at the top of the pic, although looks kinda like Mojano, but it looks like you've got some aiptasia growing under those two..

Carl

 

[S13<3]

the one underneath is a larger version of the two babies, ive had many many aiptasia and it looks nothing like it, that and my voracios peppermint shrimp would of eaten them by now, as far as being majano, i dont think it is as i recently had one and these look nothing like a majano

 

[S13<3]

these are the best pics i could get, u can see better how its black with shiny specs in it, especially in the last pic

 

[Alysiak00]

aiptasia!

 

[purge43]

looks like a democrat, I vote aptasia

 

[S13<3]

never seen aiptasia like these but ill take u guys word for it, i have another hitchhiker thats been around for months, they look like cone shaped worm tubes and they throw a long slimey string out that thats basically a fishing line, ive seen them succesfully catch brine shrimp all the time and they reel it in lol, its pretty cool to watch and dont think theyre bad cause i see the fishing line on my coral all the time, im just looking for a name if anybody knows, theyre little but ill try and get a picture

 

[rdlisby]

Maybe a vermetid snail.

 

[sslak]

aiptasia!

Again...it's a little darker and maybe more purple than most but aiptasia indeed.

 

[lordofthereef]

I don't think it's aiptasia. Looks like a plain old button polyp to me. When it closes up, does it look like it has disappeared or is this still a "bulb" where the polyp was. If you experience the latter, it is a simple (and safe) polyp.

 

[S13<3]

just found out what they are, according to coralpedia they are black crystal death zoas, u can see the black metallic foot in this pic, heres the link
http://www.zoaid.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=10686&g2_serialNumber=2

 

[Anemonebuff]

http://www.gastropods.com/9/Shell_4759.shtml

Possibly a coral eater.

 

[noahm]

sure looks like them. Glad you found out. Did not look like aipt with the black foot and connected mat.