ID PLEASE.....found this in my over flow

[machodik]

Dear All,

Kindly help me identify this creature. they stick in the glass wall of my over flow.

also have seen those white strands too. all over the glass wall too.

cheers,

 

[SpartaReef]

I found the same thing in my overflow as well... Just last night. There are so many I can't count them and they are all kinds of different sizes. At first I saw one on a piece of live rock that I thought was a white sponge, then I found one on a turbo snail shell. Now I find them all over the over flow.

Here a picture of the ones I found.

 

[SpartaReef]

Also, a bit more on the description, they appear to be wormlike, like a tubework of sorts, but no feathers. At the open end it appears like the orafice is like that of a sponge, and the body is surrounded by a spongy mass. The foot that attaches to the glass has two to three branches and looks like the foot of say a clam or anemone. Some of them have thin hair like red worms (spaghetti worms?) Around the base or under the foot. But only a few of mine have the red worms the rest are all white/cream colored or slightly brown from algae growing on the "shell"

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Scypha sponges, harmless. The long tubes are harmless little feather dusters.

 

[SpartaReef]

Found this about them... Good info
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1167570

 

[machodik]

thanks for the infor,

what about the white thread like things stick to my glass? i have found a lot of them all over the overflow and sumps.

I think I got all this after I have bought 2 new corals (hammer and torch) last 3 weeks ago. I never remember saw those creatures in the past.

hope to hear more from you guys.

cheers,

 

[SpartaReef]

Those white things are mini feather dusters... They are beneficial

 

[robotman]

thanks for the infor,

what about the white thread like things stick to my glass? i have found a lot of them all over the overflow and sumps.

I think I got all this after I have bought 2 new corals (hammer and torch) last 3 weeks ago. I never remember saw those creatures in the past.

hope to hear more from you guys.

cheers,

loks like sea squirts, I had a bunch in my overflow, when I was out of town and my friend over fed, harmless guys if im right, just reduce feeding