id please looks like a caterpillar

[sansupt]

please can someonr id this, it looks like a caterpillar, I found it stuck to my glass. hopefully my picture comes out. if so is this good or bad.

 

[Lynnmw1208]

looks almost like a sea cucumber to me but I don't know much about them. Does it have legs?

 

[bertoni]

You could try in the invertebrate forum, if you'd like. I could move this thread there.

 

[sansupt]

it has what looks like small tube legs. yes you can move it if you think it can help

 

[bertoni]

I'd guess a sea cucumber of some sort, but I'm bad at such guesses. I've moved the thread to the "other invertebrates" forum, for more views, and I left a pointer in NTTH.

 

[GerritM]

My guess is a sea mouse (polychaete worm), mayby Aphrodita aculeata or similar.

 

[LeslieH]

Yes, sea cucumber. Looks like a filter feeder. Harmless.

 

[bertoni]

You mean I got one right? Inconceivable!

 

[LeslieH]

Even a dead clock is right twice a day! :lol:

 

[bertoni]

:lol:

 

[greenbean36191]

Inconceivable!

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

 

[AJSTITAN14]

My God! He's climbing!

 

[kingfisher62]

GerritM is right .
It is a seamouse.
I just found one recently while transferring my 14g biocube livestock into a new 29g cube.The rock was 5 years old and never saw it till that day.

here is a link to my thread when I tried to ID mine.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1953834

 

[kingfisher62]

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Haha, love that movie!

 

[LeslieH]

Kingfisher - Yours was an Aphrodita or a related species but Sansupt's isn't. It really is a sea cucumber. Notice how the long appendages (which are extensions of the body) are on all the body surfaces and there's no segmentation. Aphroditids have bristles along the sides & long hairs only on the top; the body is segmented but smooth.