Over 260+ items identified - by picture!

[dhost]

thanks

 

[candlebizlover]

Thanks for all your hard work to catalog these animals! I am a "newbie" starting out with a 10 gallon reef setup. Since putting the LR in my tank, I have 2 "new" occupants that I needed to ID.

So far I found one, an Isopod. The other, I believe, is a soft coral and will try to ID it when I find it again, lol! It has moved a couple of times since I discovered it last night.

Hehe, finding the 2nd one was easy, it is a single palytoha. Again, thank you for the great catalog!

 

[melev]

candlebizlover (nice job, btw),

[welcome]

I'm glad it is helping you recognize stuff in your tank. Watch closely at night with a flashlight and you'll see all kinds of things in the months and years to come.

 

[ladyfsu]

I'm setting up my dad's 10-gallon for him while he's out of the country. Please help with ID on these two pistols that were on some rock. They are both very small...the striped one VERY thin too. Thx.

thx. I won't be in town when he gets home, so this is the link I'm giving him with instructions and what's in his new tank if you wanna see.

I want him to be able to click on each of the pics to find out about the animal, and I'll post a pic up soon too. dads tank

 

[fishview]

ID please.

ID please.

What is this? It is on the glass, and about 2mm long. You can compare its size with the South Down sand. It is flat, soft and moves like snail, but without the shell.

 

[melev]

Ladyfsu,

The first one looks like a Tiger pistol shrimp to me, and the second one is just like the one I found in my tank. I just referred to it as a generic pistol shrimp; yours has eggs being released in the image.

fishview,

That looks like a Stomatella to me, from that side. I'd have to see the other side to be positive.

 

[fishview]

Marc, it is the same both sides. It is flat. When I cut it in half, the head still moves.

 

[melev]

Then my guess would be a flatworm. What color is it?

 

[fishview]

Marc, it is the very dark brown to black. Thanks.

 

[Sea Ninja]

Love it! Thanks for the info!

 

[Chelito1234]

Great Inf..... Nice

 

[fallen4378]

great thread thanks

 

[ladyfsu]

Caught these 2 lil ones seining in the Gulf and they are going to my school aquariums. Any idea?

 

[melev]

Sorry, all I recognize are the background critters. :lol:

 

[ladyfsu]

LOL! that's all I had at the moment. Someone was telling me they may be spadefish.

 

[luke05]

brilliant web a lot of help

 

[chocolateblnt]

Found these suckers ... on a piece of LR with Yellow Colony Polyps. So far I have Labeled them as "creepy spiders" :lol2: I didn't know what they were so on the safe side I took them off ... there were only 3.

:eek1: They look like those things in ALIENs' when they hatch and jump on your face! :eek2:

 

[melev]

There are some sea spiders that will eat zoanthids. Did you see those on the predator list of the Zoanthid section?

 

[chocolateblnt]

No I did not see them ... I figured they look gnarly and probably don't belong in my tank! Thanks for the I.D. Melev ... always a helpful guy!

 

[jiggly75]

thanks for the site, i am always wondering what something is that comes on a rock or coral and the books i have don't always help