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

[archangel91]

Looking to ID 3 things from this pic.

1. The white spirals on the glass, from other pics in the thread I'm thinking possibly Serpulid feather dusters?

2. Near the center of the pic there's a small black with yellow center bug looking thing, no idea on that one.

3. You can't really see them in the thumbnail, but if you go to the pic on photobucket and zoom in at the rock near where #2 is, there's little bug looking things crawling all over. They're actually all over the rocks in quite a few places.

http://s1103.photobucket.com/user/jstuart91/media/IMG_6829.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Found this before they opened this morning...anyone know what it is? And if I need to get rid of it. Thank you.

Hard to tell, might be a harmless stomatella snail. Take it out and put it into a cup of tank water and get some more pics.

put it in tupperware to take good pics. Any clue?

some kind of bivalve. Harmless filter feeder.

Looking to ID 3 things from this pic.

1. The white spirals on the glass, from other pics in the thread I'm thinking possibly Serpulid feather dusters?

2. Near the center of the pic there's a small black with yellow center bug looking thing, no idea on that one.

3. You can't really see them in the thumbnail, but if you go to the pic on photobucket and zoom in at the rock near where #2 is, there's little bug looking things crawling all over. They're actually all over the rocks in quite a few places.

http://s1103.photobucket.com/user/jstuart91/media/IMG_6829.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2

The only thing I can ID is the spirorbid worms on the glass. The rest of the pic is way too blurry to ID anything else.

 

[Herbys]

Those are harmless munnid isopods that are quite beneficial, eating detrtus

Thanks for the reply! I wonder then why is it that my Zoanthids close up tightly for weeks, and then, after a dense bath in Lugol that cleans out these isopods the Zoanthids open up again. Maybe I am killing something else that's the actual cause. There are other bugs which look somewhat similar to the isopods but maybe ten times smaller (so it is difficult to say they are similar, but they look the same shape and color) and that live intermixed with them, maybe those are the harmful ones and I am killing both species with my lugol baths.
I'll try to be more selective and see the results.

 

[Kannon50]

Maybe one of you advanced critter guys and gals can help me ID this thing. also if it is good or bad. ....

i was told it may be a cucumber but i am not sure. its several differnt shards of brown, and kind hairy or has spikes. its loacted on the leaf thing

i didnt have tweazers untill now, i cannot find him now so am not sure exactly where he is, but when i find him i will be ready to pick him out if he is a bad guy.

your advice is much appreciated.

 

[cloak]

Hydroids?

 

[Kannon50]

im talking about the "pill" shaped creature in the middle of the photo, anyone else ever seen one of these?

 

[nanoreef heaven]

im talking about the "pill" shaped creature in the middle of the photo, anyone else ever seen one of these?

oops, responded to wrong post.

 

[nanoreef heaven]

Hard to tell, might be a harmless stomatella snail. Take it out and put it into a cup of tank water and get some more pics.


some kind of bivalve. Harmless filter feeder.



The only thing I can ID is the spirorbid worms on the glass. The rest of the pic is way too blurry to ID anything else.

flatworm

 

[Hokies83]

Baby Mexican turbo?

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Baby Mexican turbo?

No, collonista snail. Harmless and breeds well in captivity.

 

[Nathonian]

IDs please! Let me know if they're pests as well!

 

[ReeferKimberly]

What kind of pods are these? You can see how small they are since there are mysid shrimp in the video as well.

 

[mrpergo]

came with coral...ID please

came with coral...ID please

this was in one of my coral that I just bought and was acclimating.
Is it a bristle worm and should I keep it out of the display tank

 

[Drakon]

was going to move all my stock from quarantine to the display this weekend till I noticed these hairs on one of my snails, any clue what they might be?

 

[cloak]

was going to move all my stock from quarantine to the display this weekend till I noticed these hairs on one of my snails, any clue what they might be?

Spionid worms would be my guess. If so, no worries IMO.

 

[cloak]

this was in one of my coral that I just bought and was acclimating.
Is it a bristle worm and should I keep it out of the display tank

It looks like a harmless bristleworm to me. They're actually a great part of your CUC. I would add it to the DT.

 

[devimik]

Spionid worms would be my guess. If so, no worries IMO.

+1 Spionid

 

[mrpergo]

It looks like a harmless bristleworm to me. They're actually a great part of your CUC. I would add it to the DT.

Thank You. I picked 6 of them out of an Eagle Eye coral I bought , and I noticed another one after I put it in the DT. Now I put the rest in the tank and the buried themselves as soon as they hit the sand........lol

 

[TankCla]

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

Any idea what these can be? I got a new frag with these on.

They were flushed but I am just curious if anyone recognize the eggs.

 

[Rob in Puyallup]

Just found a couple of these on a live rock... They look like pineapples with mini feather duster worm dusters. Any ideas?