Pix & ID: Critters that come in your rocks: the good and the bad.
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Huzie
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Just saw this come out of my rock.. sorry video not great quality it was quite zoomed in! https://youtu.be/7a05rWIXzjo
Huzie
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Cool thanks!
Mystery Hole
Mystery Hole
Ok over the course of the past few days I've read (I think) every post in this thread and I haven't found this one.
My LFS has cheap ugly frags always mixed in with their ones on frag posts. They are usually one that have migrated onto a piece of rock that they didn't want them on so they sell them as is.
After we got it home and placed in the my wife's Pico we noticed a hole pressed up against the glass that had something poking at the entrance. We rotated it around so that the hole faced up and out at a 45 degree angle so we could monitor it.
The hole is 1/8 - 1/4" in diameter and deep enough that your cannot see the critter when it is retracted. We let it settle and it slowly emerged. As it comes out it rolls a tube up the length of the hole to just above the rim then a leathery brown lid covers the hole. Eventually the lid cracks open just slightly and two antennae come out with an feathered orifice between them. The orifice seems to breath or filter seawater. We originally thought it was a Christmas tree worm but it should have come out by now.
I have waited three days now for it to come out and I have looked with lights on, twilight blues and full dark with a red flashlight I use to watch pods.
The tank is soft beginner corals only so it gets 2 part dosed and reef energy A+B only. The creature has not responded when any of this has been dosed. This tank does not get pellet or live food since it has no livestock so I was thinking of putting a mysis on the end of my tank tweasers and dangling it around it. However, I will have to say I witnessed multiple copepods of all sizes crawling around and over this thing and it didn't feed on them.
In the pictures I attached it is directly to the right of the red mushroom. I also included a picture of it through a macro lens.
Anyone else have a clue?
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Mystery Hole
Ok over the course of the past few days I've read (I think) every post in this thread and I haven't found this one.
My LFS has cheap ugly frags always mixed in with their ones on frag posts. They are usually one that have migrated onto a piece of rock that they didn't want them on so they sell them as is.
After we got it home and placed in the my wife's Pico we noticed a hole pressed up against the glass that had something poking at the entrance. We rotated it around so that the hole faced up and out at a 45 degree angle so we could monitor it.
The hole is 1/8 - 1/4" in diameter and deep enough that your cannot see the critter when it is retracted. We let it settle and it slowly emerged. As it comes out it rolls a tube up the length of the hole to just above the rim then a leathery brown lid covers the hole. Eventually the lid cracks open just slightly and two antennae come out with an feathered orifice between them. The orifice seems to breath or filter seawater. We originally thought it was a Christmas tree worm but it should have come out by now.
I have waited three days now for it to come out and I have looked with lights on, twilight blues and full dark with a red flashlight I use to watch pods.
The tank is soft beginner corals only so it gets 2 part dosed and reef energy A+B only. The creature has not responded when any of this has been dosed. This tank does not get pellet or live food since it has no livestock so I was thinking of putting a mysis on the end of my tank tweasers and dangling it around it. However, I will have to say I witnessed multiple copepods of all sizes crawling around and over this thing and it didn't feed on them.
In the pictures I attached it is directly to the right of the red mushroom. I also included a picture of it through a macro lens.
Anyone else have a clue?
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GXPKY
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That sir is a nudibranch. Not good.Hello, I have this bugs on some of my bleaching corals, they look like small flakes, ash.
Today I noticed that they move:
Are they killing coral, or it's aftermath of bleaching?
Thanks
-Dennis
AlSimmons
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Gall crab perhaps?
Thanks!
Is there anything that will "eat" that?
or manual removal only ?
Thanks again
Aram
juanmanuelsanch
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Is this crab good for my tank?
GXPKY
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I would pull that crab, doesn't look reef safe to me. If you have a sump drop it thereIs this crab good for my tank?
-Dennis
Ron Reefman
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Lack of color in the photo makes it harder to ID. What color is it?
My wife, who is quite good at this, is even iffy. Better color and a view where we can get a better view (from above) of the shape of the carapace would be more helpful.
But she is concerned that it may be a stone crab. Not a good inhabitant in a reef tank.
My wife, who is quite good at this, is even iffy. Better color and a view where we can get a better view (from above) of the shape of the carapace would be more helpful.
But she is concerned that it may be a stone crab. Not a good inhabitant in a reef tank.
Pandagobyguy
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Hard to tell can you get a better pic? Could be majano anemone? Idk it doesnt look quite like it.... it almost looks like it's a baby torch coral
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FNGsaltwater
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Id.
Id.
Four days in on my first saltwater tank cycle. That being said, as the usual Newb, I need an ID. When I took my live rock from the water bucket. After getting home from the lfs, I had seen this lil guy in the bucket. I *think* it is some type of anemone. It has a mouth and tentacles that rise up. The color in the picture isn't as brilliant as he become within the past few days. (I hope he can make it through the cycle. Unrealistic, probably) The color is an iridescent green/blue.
Id.
Four days in on my first saltwater tank cycle. That being said, as the usual Newb, I need an ID. When I took my live rock from the water bucket. After getting home from the lfs, I had seen this lil guy in the bucket. I *think* it is some type of anemone. It has a mouth and tentacles that rise up. The color in the picture isn't as brilliant as he become within the past few days. (I hope he can make it through the cycle. Unrealistic, probably) The color is an iridescent green/blue.
