mrcrab Doesn't matter to me. After reading those articles and a couple of threads I am going to pluck those suckers off and let them attach to some rubble...BIG experiment!
Well after reading all that stuff I decided to do surgery. I ended up cutting the rock just under each ric that I thought might make it. The rock broke apart very easily. I definitely found boring sponges as well as some worms inside a couple of the ricordia. talk abou the rock from hell! There were so many cool things on that rock it was really depressing to screw it up. I had it out of the water for about an hour so I am sure I killed all the sponges. A couple of them blew up with trapped air. I am totally bummed that I lost that yellow sponge too.
Found an SPS nub smaller than a pencil eraser and it had a full compliment of sweeper tentacles 5 times its own size in an attempt to fight off the wicked attack it was under. SO I put what I hope will be survivors in a bowl and I also put the rock back into the QT to see what happens with it. It is possible that something more will pop up that i can save. There are a bunch of tiny feathers on it too.
Interesting to note that as soon as I put the surviving polyps in the bowl they colored up to what they looked like when I bought the rock. Some very pretty brights greens, blues, & oranges, so maybe it is not a total loss.
So I did the night watch and found something swimming around in the QT...
Sorry about the photo quality.This seems to match one from melev's ID page although he used a general name to ID it. It swims quite fast by waving flagella (I believe) that are down both sides. This looks like a cross between a worm and a larvae and when first observed was very flat. In the bowl it has taken a more tube-like shape. It can really move but I doubt it can aim itself very well if at all. It apeared to be trying to get into the ricordia frag cup but couldn't make it over the lip.
I am guessing some kind of polychaete worm, but I really can't tell. The only pictures I have found of these say "unidentified". :lol: It could be even a flatworm in that the only reason I spotted it was that it was very flat and more visible.
The ric rock came from Ocean Reef Aquatics. I doubt he had any idea what was up and I talked to him today to warn him that something bad might be in his tank as a result of having this rock in it. He said he bought it on the wholesale market which I find strange since it had so many different rics and sponges on it.
I continue to see these long thin worms that are white with dark rings. They kind of look like baby brittle legs but I have yet to see them come all theway out of the rock. I pick at it with a tweezers occassionally but my guess is that the rock with ultimately turn to dust.
Found a DOB tonight. A Blue Sided Fairy Wrasse. And believe it or not I am about 95% sure it choked to death. After I retrieved him I pulled an algae & substrate sandwich from its throat. Such a shame. It was a really Beautiful fish. Not so smart though!
The same thing happened to my red velvet fairy wrasses, found it dead in the back of my friends tank (he was holding onto him for me) with a mouth full of sand, he was thuroughly wedged in too.
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