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

[SushiGirl]

Aiptasia for sure. The hard red things are foraminiferans & harmless.

 

[Biocubehqi]

Thanks sushigirl! I have a couple other things I've been trying to figure out, if I can get a decent picture I'll post.

 

[Biocubehqi]

Found these tubes all over one of my rocks and now it has little reddish things coming out.

Harmful or ok?

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You can also see the yellowish clear kinda mass under the rock... Still can't find out what it is?

 

[Biocubehqi]

Best way to get rid of this?
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[Biocubehqi]

Aiptasia too?

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[SushiGirl]

Tubes are harmless featherdusters.
Both of the last 2 are aiptasia. If you look around or search RC there are many ways to get rid of them.

 

[Biocubehqi]

Found this yellowish clear blob under two of our rocks... This one looks like it has the branching out characteristics of a potato... Ok or got to go?

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[tony312t4]

Pinkish thing on the bottom of the rock. Has two holes that open and close if you get near it. Any ideas?

 

[SushiGirl]

Bio, I meant to answer that earlier, it's sponge & fine. I have it too.
tony, that's a tunicatr, cool find!

 

[Biocubehqi]

Found this cool little guy today
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There are 3 of these blue/green/purple button top looking things on this one rock

 

[Biocubehqi]

And is this the same thing that tony posted?
Mine so far only has one opening....

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[SushiGirl]

Mushrooms, nice!

 

[jester1343]

thanks to all taken a lot in but learning so much to do

 

[Biocubehqi]

Thanks again sushigirl! You're awesome! I'm pretty new to this and have lots of questions, it's nice to have this to come to if I get stumped by a new hitchhiker

 

[SushiGirl]

Take a cruise through the rest of the thread, too. Lots of stuff already ID'd and a few hitchhiker links in here.

 

[rollermonkey]

I've read through this thread all the way once and Ms. Sushi is pretty amazing so far.

I have 38 pounds of rock arriving tomorrow, so I suspect that I'll be cruising this thread quite a bit for the next few weeks.

 

[mlott132]

Got a few small pieces of live rock from my lfs. After I put them in the tank I switched on the red leds and I found this moving around on one of the new pieces. What is it?

 

[SushiGirl]

Mini brittle starfish.

 

[mlott132]

Mini brittle starfish.

Do you think this will survive through my tanks cycle? I just started the tank a couple days ago.

 

[SushiGirl]

Don't know, I've never had any during a cycle. We did have to remove a rock frag rack the other day that we thought had 3 in it, so we dipped it in RO/DI. About 20 bailed out & were pretty shocked. They all recovered after a few minutes, though LOL.