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

In the third picture is a discosoma and first and second also looks like a mushroom but you should post a picture from profile too(at the second one).The second coral looks too thick to be a mushroom.There are chances they will survive ,especially the discosoma and mostly because you have an advantage by starting with good quality live rock.
 
2smokes said:
In the third picture is a discosoma and first and second also looks like a mushroom but you should post a picture from profile too(at the second one).The second coral looks too thick to be a mushroom.There are chances they will survive ,especially the discosoma and mostly because you have an advantage by starting with good quality live rock.
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I'll get to looking those up. Thanks. But in the mean time, here's a profile. This is from the night he came out of the bucket. He's actually alot healthier looking now, surprisingly. I have SO many hitchhikers. Mushrooms, sponge, bristle worms, feather dusters, allot of various colors of coraline, and a couple lovely pieces of bubble algae. There's also something in my sand making large mounded lines when its out at night. I've been studying non stop, but this lil guy had me stumped.
 

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FNGsaltwater said:
I'll get to looking those up. Thanks. But in the mean time, here's a profile. This is from the night he came out of the bucket. He's actually alot healthier looking now, surprisingly. I have SO many hitchhikers. Mushrooms, sponge, bristle worms, feather dusters, allot of various colors of coraline, and a couple lovely pieces of bubble algae. There's also something in my sand making large mounded lines when its out at night. I've been studying non stop, but this lil guy had me stumped.
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Does it have a hard skeleton around the edges?
 
AlSimmons said:
Does it have a hard skeleton around the edges?
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No. He's firm though. And when something touches him, he, for lack of better words, grabs it and pulls it in to his middle. He's on Tonga that was in a "very well established 800 gallon tank" that the lfs said they "broke down" for a client.
 
2smokes said:
In the third picture is a discosoma and first and second also looks like a mushroom but you should post a picture from profile too(at the second one).The second coral looks too thick to be a mushroom.There are chances they will survive ,especially the discosoma and mostly because you have an advantage by starting with good quality live rock.
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The 3 pics are of the same lil guy. Here's a better profile pic.
 

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You see that white area in the first picture? This is not the beginning of a hard structure? (skeleton) If everything is just slimy, tender etc, then it might just be a "mushroom" of some sort like mentioned above. Still thinking though... ;)
 
Can I get an ID on this? I noticed it before but never realized that it actually opened up to a hollow tube like this. It's on a frag and is usually closed up, somewhat pointy. I did see it retract, similar to zoas like the ones around it.
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AlSimmons said:
You see that white area in the first picture? This is not the beginning of a hard structure? (skeleton) If everything is just slimy, tender etc, then it might just be a "mushroom" of some sort like mentioned above. Still thinking though... ;)
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Now i doubt its a mushroom(discosoma).It look like it has a new polyp attached to it and somme white growth at the base.It could be a LPS head similar to caulastrea that got broken from its skeleton.Especially after he said it has tentacles.
 
2smokes said:
Now i doubt its a mushroom(discosoma).It look like it has a new polyp attached to it and somme white growth at the base.It could be a LPS head similar to caulastrea that got broken from its skeleton.Especially after he said it has tentacles.
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Here's an above shot. All the dots on top are little tentacles. There are dotted purple lines on the bottom side of the top, if that makes sense. He's getting greener and a burgundy purple.
 
Crete said:
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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Just a feather duster of some sort.


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Came back late from the pub tonight and noticed this weird wiggling work flying around the water column of the tank!

Any ideas what this is?

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