ID this wierd huge Worm? jelly something

[mtcoins123]

OK woke up to find this guy hanging around in my DT i have never seen it before and i have not noticed anything going missing, it is huge fully unrolled it measures about 14 inches long and about 2.5 or 3 wide what i first thought were tube like appendages i have discovered i think are just the ends rolling up and looking like appendages. i think if it was all unrolled it would be flat without any apparent openings??? so here are some pics

 

[mtcoins123]

Bump Bump

 

[jacob.morgan78]

i'm curious too! you should post in the reef discussion forum and ask...

 

[nanoreef heaven]

Maybe some kind of flat worm.

*Sent from my little corner of the reef. Nano nano!*

 

[Fretfreak13]

That is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. It just showed up? The pictures look like tunicates to me, but they don't just "show up". They don't move. o.o

 

[MARINECRITTERS]

Some sort of colonial animal, looks similar to a pyrosome ( including salps ).
Pyrosomes are cylindrical shaped colonies made up of hundreds or even thousands of individuals which are called zooids. Check this thing out at night as I am curious to see if it is bioluminescent. It does have a branchial basket from the looks of it so if you wan't to keep this harmless creature then feed it phytoplankton.
Cool creature

 

[mtcoins123]

Thanks Marinecritters I am thinking it has got to be something from that family, unfortunately I believe it finally showed itself because it was dying I do still have it in qt but it is losing its "roll up" ability more and more.


It Is a VERY COOL creature I sure wish I had seen it more, now I regret not setting up the HD video surveillance system I bought to record nighttime activity. maybe that will be this weekends project.

 

[LeslieH]

That is odd. It's not a colonial animal. The closest thing I can think of is the detached, fully extended proboscis of an echiuroid spoon worm but at that size you should have seen it before.

 

[mtcoins123]

well to google proboscis is fun :lol: lots of cousins showed up