Looks Like Feather Dusters...but They Really Are?
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Travis L. Stevens
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We're either going to need a more detailed decription or a picture. Sorry. It could just be too many things to tell.
salt e
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sorry...k...i found one that seems to be coming out of a tube...well they are VERY small...each one opens no bigger then the swab on a small Q-tip (most are even smaller)... they are white in color... and they seem to have a few AT LEAST on about EVERY peice of live rock in the tank but they seriously resemble a very small WHITE spider web and each indevisual arm/branch on the critter seems to be stripped with a dark gray which gives it the appearence of a spider web (hope this helps 
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if you say yes and its not true...i wont hold it against you
salt e
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if it looks like a feather duster...and moves like a feather duster... its a Sea Lion 
yea i know about the long nose... been researching them alot lately... im almost tempted to try... i have a thread currently running on them but i dont know if anyone has one that has lasted longer then a year or 2 at most... i think ill ask...
yea i know about the long nose... been researching them alot lately... im almost tempted to try... i have a thread currently running on them but i dont know if anyone has one that has lasted longer then a year or 2 at most... i think ill ask...
NicoleC
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With a spider like web? Almost certainly not a feather duster, but some other filter feeding organism, perhaps vermetid snails. With a good macro picture, though, it could be anything. Or, the could be mini brittle stars and only appear to live in tubes.
Filter feeding organisms need food. Most sudden population explosions occur 1) as part of a new tank settling in, or 2) because of way too many organics in the water column.
DO NOT buy some new animal to eat a problem animal. This "solution" almost always ends up with the problem going a way for a while, the aquired animal dying, and then the problem working. Nuisance control via livestock is the worst possible response.
Nutrient control is key to reducing plaque proportions of filter feeders. Since this is a very new tank, it is likely it is just one of the many population explosions that will happen while the tank settles.
After re-reading the description about the stripes, it really does sound like mini brittles.
Starfish arms:
Very common spionid or phyllochaetopterus worms (probably):
Photos of vermetid snails and an article on them:
http://www.reefs.org/hhfaq/pages/picture_pages/faq_vermetid.html
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rs/index.php
More types of tube worms:
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-05/rs/index.php
Filter feeding organisms need food. Most sudden population explosions occur 1) as part of a new tank settling in, or 2) because of way too many organics in the water column.
DO NOT buy some new animal to eat a problem animal. This "solution" almost always ends up with the problem going a way for a while, the aquired animal dying, and then the problem working. Nuisance control via livestock is the worst possible response.
Nutrient control is key to reducing plaque proportions of filter feeders. Since this is a very new tank, it is likely it is just one of the many population explosions that will happen while the tank settles.
After re-reading the description about the stripes, it really does sound like mini brittles.
Starfish arms:
Very common spionid or phyllochaetopterus worms (probably):
Photos of vermetid snails and an article on them:
http://www.reefs.org/hhfaq/pages/picture_pages/faq_vermetid.html
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rs/index.php
More types of tube worms:
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-05/rs/index.php
NicoleC
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They are not majanos nor aiptasia, but some other small anemone. They reproduced slowly (unlike majanos) and were also much more attractive. That pic is from a long time ago; I don't have them anymore, but I really liked them. Still, not something you'd want to get out of control, so I would trim the population with kalk paste periodically.
