Help please

[Danny91]

Can anyone tell me what this is on a green star polyp please?

 

[LeJeune981]

Does it move? Open or close? Looks pretty small comparing to the closed star polyps

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[Danny91]

Well it caught my eye today when I was looking at the tank and I seen movement around that area so that s how I spotted it.

 

[Danny91]

It looked like it opened up from the corner of my eye

 

[Danny91]

There's two of them

 

[rvareef]

try stirring up your sandbed or feeding tank and see if it shoots out some white webbs, my guess is vermetid snail

 

[Danny91]

Is that a bad thing? I'll have a read now. Thank You.

 

[rvareef]

if it turns out to be one you can sometimes take the colony out and pop them off with a screwdriver or superglue them shut

 

[Danny91]

Thank you for that I appreciate it

 

[LeJeune981]

I don't think it is a vermeted (sp) snails

Here are what mine look like.. this one is living on another snails shell

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[LeJeune981]

It looks like there could be another opening on the opposite side maybe?

Possibly some type of tunicate ?

But again.. I am the furthest thing from an expert lol

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[Sk8r]

tunicate would be my guess. It's safe. The green star polyp itself can pose a serious problem...put its rock separate from all others, over in a corner, where it can't spread until you're sure you really like it.

 

[rvareef]

did you try stirring the sandbed to see if there was a reaction? if its a vermetid mucus should come out, the bigger ones are tan/cream colored and can have a cool spiral shell.

 

[LeJeune981]

tunicate would be my guess. It's safe. The green star polyp itself can pose a serious problem...put its rock separate from all others, over in a corner, where it can't spread until you're sure you really like it.

That's where my star polyps live.. I'm hoping they grow up onto the back wall..

I have a few little red tunicates living under various rocks in my tank.... odd little critters..
Randomly I'll come across a new one

I want one like in the picture now lol



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[Danny91]

Yes I mixed my sand and nothing happened. There is one on the opposite side too.

 

[LeJeune981]

I'm gonna stick with my guess of a tunicate.. they have an inlet and outlet hole.. water and food in one side... water and poop out the other..

I can't get a picture of mine.. but these photos are the same as mine.. I think lol

Anyways..mine are in dark places.. and when I shine a light on them.. they like close up some..so to speak

I think they exhale out all the water in them...

Try lightly touching it with a turkey baister or something.. see if it will react by shrinking itself a little

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