Pix & ID: Critters that come in your rocks: the good and the bad.
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ViktorVaughn
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Any help on these two would be helpful, I tried to do a google search but just couldn't seem to come up with a proper way to phrase this snail like creature below. Round shell that is shaped like a pyramid with a point in the center, sucks algae like a snail, and has two weird horn looking protrusions from inside his shell.
Second ID help is these white and black or possibly white and green worm looking deals that are attached to the rockwork that just sway in the flow. Really skinny and small so it is hard to get an accurate color from my crappy eyesight. I have hermits and an urchin that frequent that area but it looks like they always leave those things alone.
Second ID help is these white and black or possibly white and green worm looking deals that are attached to the rockwork that just sway in the flow. Really skinny and small so it is hard to get an accurate color from my crappy eyesight. I have hermits and an urchin that frequent that area but it looks like they always leave those things alone.
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Rob in Puyallup
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Can't help you with the snail, but those "worms" are mini brittle stars catching food. They're a good thing to have. 
Rob in Puyallup
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PS... Thinking your snail may be a limpet. Nothing wrong with it, I'm thinking.
ViktorVaughn
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Can't help you with the snail, but those "worms" are mini brittle stars catching food. They're a good thing to have.
Awesome thanks for the quick replies, glad the brittle stars are a good thing, I have quite a few on that rock and the prospect of removing them all given their small size did not seem fun. From a quick image search of limpets, that appears to be what it is, thanks! 2/2 on the unknowns being beneficial, nice.
Majano anemone. you'll want to inject it with some kalk slurry or a commercially available aiptasia killer like Joe's Juice or Aiptasia X.
ReeferKimberly
Marley & Me
Urchin? Does it come out? I mean it totally looks like an urchin from here but pics can be deceiving.
I just spotted it for the first time after I reorganized the rock, and I haven't seen it move. I thought urchin, too, but because it hasn't moved from there in 2 days I'm thinking not an urchin or dead.
cloak
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The first two pictures are of a limpet. (harmless) The third one is of micro brittle stars hidden in the rocks. (harmless)
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cloak
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If it hasn't moved at all, it might be a barnacle of some sort. That's what those white protrusions on the rocks look like at least.
ReeferKimberly
Marley & Me
I am guessing rock boring urchin....which would explain that.
http://www.calacademy.org/blogs/expedition/?p=612
New coral?
New coral?
After two months of having it running I saw something growing. Could y'all help me identify it?
No idea what it is!!!
Here's a link
http://tinypic.com/r/25a7vdl/5
New coral?
After two months of having it running I saw something growing. Could y'all help me identify it?
No idea what it is!!!
Here's a link
http://tinypic.com/r/25a7vdl/5
cloak
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It looks kind of like a majano anemone to me. (bad)
cloak
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My guess would be a couple hidden cup corals.
