Pandagobyguy
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Hard to see. Could be aptasia, ball or mojano... is it white or brown? If brown, aptasia is my guess. If white, ball.
Pix & ID: Critters that come in your rocks: the good and the bad.
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Lots of new things!
Lots of new things!
Within the past few days I've noticed a ton of new things crawling out of my live rock. The tank is only 2 months old, but new things are popping up daily. Lately I've found a small bristle worm, as well as a few tiny little white wormlike things that keep stretching out and getting small again. Today I found a little bug looking critter that I was able to ID through this thread as a good critter. I've also had a beautiful red feather duster type creature appear, still not sure what it is. I'm a little concerned about two things. The first one looks like brown furry tentacles coming out of a hole in the rock. It looks like it retracts completely into the rock when disturbed. The other one looks clear with a bunch of tentacles that I'm worried may be aptasia. The pics are not the best, but the best I could currently do. Any help is appreciated.
The one pic isn't the brown furry thing retracted into its hole. You can also see the red fan next to the possible aptasia.
Lots of new things!
Within the past few days I've noticed a ton of new things crawling out of my live rock. The tank is only 2 months old, but new things are popping up daily. Lately I've found a small bristle worm, as well as a few tiny little white wormlike things that keep stretching out and getting small again. Today I found a little bug looking critter that I was able to ID through this thread as a good critter. I've also had a beautiful red feather duster type creature appear, still not sure what it is. I'm a little concerned about two things. The first one looks like brown furry tentacles coming out of a hole in the rock. It looks like it retracts completely into the rock when disturbed. The other one looks clear with a bunch of tentacles that I'm worried may be aptasia. The pics are not the best, but the best I could currently do. Any help is appreciated.
The one pic isn't the brown furry thing retracted into its hole. You can also see the red fan next to the possible aptasia.
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timnem70
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Do they move?Anyone know what this is?
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timnem70
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Eeek. Don't know,sorry. Are they hard scale or soft?
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joeyg4583
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I haven't felt them. I'm a little scared to [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
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Pandagobyguy
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I would be too lol
Papermonkeys
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I think you right looks like ball and had already multiplied once. I think I'm gonna pull them out before they take over
Looking for help in ID'ing this guy.
This guy came from from an order of TBS live rock, placed in my tank at the end of October and came out in the past 2 weeks. Appears like some sort of anemone but I could be wrong. It is about Pea size, mostly clear/white , with feathery/branching arms. Its currently living under a rock ledge and appears to be a filter feeder as it will randomly bring in 1 of its arms to feed the center mouth.
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Thanks!
-Eric
This guy came from from an order of TBS live rock, placed in my tank at the end of October and came out in the past 2 weeks. Appears like some sort of anemone but I could be wrong. It is about Pea size, mostly clear/white , with feathery/branching arms. Its currently living under a rock ledge and appears to be a filter feeder as it will randomly bring in 1 of its arms to feed the center mouth.
IMG_0209 by E, on FlickrThanks!
-Eric
AlSimmons
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Nah. Good guys. Here's an article on sea apples, a type of water filtering cucumber. http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2003/3/inverts
Hi All,
Recently I was fighting with cirolanid isopods. Since I'm monitoring situation closely after recent water change I have spotted little white critters. Definitely look like pods and their beloved place was a sponge of skimmer which I removed freaking out not to allow pods overtake my tank.
White critters stick to the glass and appears fish (Two clowns) go crazy about them. I have taken few macro pictures + zoom in mspaint as normally they are just white dots. Some critters are of more triangular shape towards the head others appear to have something attached to them towards the bottom. I'd love to believe these are copepods but all pictures I've seen them on appear more "round-ish" towards the head. I suspect even though they stay together maybe there's more than one species?
It's a nano, parameters are in check, 33.7ppt, 26C, 8.26ph, NH3 0, NO2 0, NO3 1, PO4 < 0.03. I run skimmer (Reef Octopus HOB) and small Aqua Medic reactor 50/50 with Carbon and PO4 remover.
Recently I was fighting with cirolanid isopods. Since I'm monitoring situation closely after recent water change I have spotted little white critters. Definitely look like pods and their beloved place was a sponge of skimmer which I removed freaking out not to allow pods overtake my tank.
White critters stick to the glass and appears fish (Two clowns) go crazy about them. I have taken few macro pictures + zoom in mspaint as normally they are just white dots. Some critters are of more triangular shape towards the head others appear to have something attached to them towards the bottom. I'd love to believe these are copepods but all pictures I've seen them on appear more "round-ish" towards the head. I suspect even though they stay together maybe there's more than one species?
It's a nano, parameters are in check, 33.7ppt, 26C, 8.26ph, NH3 0, NO2 0, NO3 1, PO4 < 0.03. I run skimmer (Reef Octopus HOB) and small Aqua Medic reactor 50/50 with Carbon and PO4 remover.
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Had apex temp probe installed just few days ago so I was cross checking temps next to it for calibration. It's a nano so no sump but I'll remove it or replace with something electronic.
So $1M question, which pod is it? Good or bad? If it's bad then the tank is full of them...
So $1M question, which pod is it? Good or bad? If it's bad then the tank is full of them...
timnem70
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Someone with more experience will have to answer that one. Never really known there to be "Bad Pods" but? Those look like what I have in my sump/tank. Fish eat them and in my experience its a sign of a healthy bio diverse system. Anyone else?
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