Pix & ID: Critters that come in your rocks: the good and the bad.

Dave.H said:
Sorry for the quality of the pic, this thing was less than 1/8 inch. It was on the glass, looked like it had some kind of hook on the head. Is it some kind of flatworm or what??
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It's Vayssierea felis. Harmless, feeds on spirorbids.

http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/vaysfeli



Don
 
Sorry for the tiny picture. It's a star. White with splotches of brown. Looks slightly bumpy all over.
Good or bad?
What is it?
 

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So on my zoa's I have spotted three spiral shaped, dotted from end to end. Too small for me to take a pic. Kind of looks like a white centipede or something insect like. They don't move and are very much attached to the stalks of the zoa's and the zoa's are tightly closed and only one or two heads have partially opened.
I'm thinking it could be the slug's egg sacs?
What is the best method to remove them? Manually?(scrape) or Dip? (FW)
 
Can anyone id this? Two different critters either one maybe in a larva stage? One of my sps seemed to be very itchy so I dipped and put under the scope. Been in the hobby for 20 yrs and I have never seen this.
Thanks

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SushiGirl said:
Hokies, the top worm looks a bit like a peanut worm, 2nd pic, no clue...especially without any kind of behavior description.

Dectr6, not all gobies are bottom dwellers. You could pore through fishbase.org for gobies, but it's time consuming. Sorry, I'm not good at fish IDs.

Morten, if you found it on zoas, it's likely a zoa-eater. Hard to tell from that pic, but it's the general shape (not that that's always something to go by).

Hogfan, always capture, then take pics, then release or destroy LOL!
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Ha! I got him!!!

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The bad news is as I was celebrating the capture I looked back and saw his twin scooting across the sand. I had him trapped in a small plastic bowl but he got blown out by the current as I was bringing him up :headwallblue:.

The Polyclad Flatworm hunt continues!
 
hreef said:
Can anyone id this? Two different critters either one maybe in a larva stage? One of my sps seemed to be very itchy so I dipped and put under the scope. Been in the hobby for 20 yrs and I have never seen this.
Thanks

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No idea, but the last pic looks like it has eggs.

Hogfan, lesson 2, put a lid on it :lmao:. Hope you catch it again! How'd you do it, scoop it up? I never caight mine.
 
I have some plastic condiment dishes (like the one in the picture above). I just scooped them and a little sand with the dish. Unfortunately I didn't think to cover the dish the second time and ended up only with water and sand. These things are unbelievably slimy!
 
i have a large amount of small white tubes with long threads coming out of them,white in color.cant get a good pic of them,there to small.they catch small stuff floating around in the tank any idea what these are? good/bad..
 
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