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More Hitch Hikers to ID
More Hitch Hikers to ID
Ok, so it's too hard to see in the pics I took... plus my pics wouldn't open last time I tried to post them anyway.
So SushiGirl posted a pic of a Collonista snail... I think the next hitch hiker is one of these critters. Are they really small? The one in my tank is less than 1/4" diameter.
The latest hitch hiker I just saw a few minutes ago. I *think* it's a small brittle star, but can't see enough of it to tell for sure. There are two arms sweeping out into the water from inside of a hole in a rock. Very thin and about 1 1/2" length, with the bristly edges. Definitely not a pair bristleworms - I had those in my previous tank, and this is not what they look like or how they behave. If it's not a brittle star, what else could it be?
The only hitch hiker I had in my first tank was a bumble bee snail... so this time around is pretty fun... four hitch hikers so far!
More Hitch Hikers to ID
Ok, so it's too hard to see in the pics I took... plus my pics wouldn't open last time I tried to post them anyway.
So SushiGirl posted a pic of a Collonista snail... I think the next hitch hiker is one of these critters. Are they really small? The one in my tank is less than 1/4" diameter.
The latest hitch hiker I just saw a few minutes ago. I *think* it's a small brittle star, but can't see enough of it to tell for sure. There are two arms sweeping out into the water from inside of a hole in a rock. Very thin and about 1 1/2" length, with the bristly edges. Definitely not a pair bristleworms - I had those in my previous tank, and this is not what they look like or how they behave. If it's not a brittle star, what else could it be?
The only hitch hiker I had in my first tank was a bumble bee snail... so this time around is pretty fun... four hitch hikers so far!
