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

I know I've seen this on these pages before, but looking through 20+ pages, I can;t find it. Found this little guy walking the glass of my aquarium. About 1/4" long with a forked-looking "tail" (or maybe head?).

Sorry the picture is a little blurry...

Just like this one??

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ID? Found this swirling around on bottom and glued down to a frag plug...Sabae nem inside shell?

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Hi

I was playing around with taking photos of the aquarium and thought I would post some of the photos for a few reasons.

1 Can you help ID some of these and tell us if they are good or bad and
2 any additional tips on my photo skills to get better quality photos of the tank.

Thanks Pez and I are trying to do this right and we need a little hand holding and help.

Is this Brown Algae
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Color did not come through right but it is Lime green
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No clue
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Red spots everywhere
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White/Gray Sponge looking thing
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Button Polyp?
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Full tank
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Just looks like algae mostly. It's all natural in the cycle. But nice scaping I love it. Gonna look nice!

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Ok so since we're talking about nudi's, I have this pic from a while back that was showing LFS's in my area and no one knew what it was. Lille guy lives in my 20g sump in sequesterment (sp) do he can't hurt anything but it's so pretty I'd like to move it to my dt if safe.

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Yeah never found even close in the past. Been trying to find critters common to Australia and the Carribean as that's where my rock and sand are from. No luck yet ;)
 
Seaslugforum is great, but it takes a lot of time to go throug.

Huly, the red things are foraminiferans & are fine. If something looks like a sponge, it usually is LOL. The "no clue" one I'd need to know if it's soft or hard plus a better more detailed pic. On my phone, so not sure with the rest. As for pics, use the flash (external is best if you have a non-point & shoot camera), shoot straight on to the glass & close to the glass, and play with the white balance either on the camera or in a photo editing program if it still looks blue with the flash. Blue pics make ID really hard because you don't get true color. There is a photography forum here that you can read through/post in.
 
Well after going link by link thru that website, I stopped when I think I found it, could still be the Lekkar but this one looks close too

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Well after going link by link thru that website, I stopped when I think I found it, could still be the Lekkar but this one looks close too

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:thumbup::D I'm still trying to get better at id'ing like sushigirl. Lol. But wow you found it it seems. :cool:

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Never knew about that slug site, and it did take me a minute to go back and forth thru the pages I did look at, but I am glad it was posted, funny thing was, right before I found it I was gonna skip ahead a few letters and would have totally missed it ;)
 
Nudis & odd snails are hard because there's so much info it takes forever to find them & ID them properly. I'm good at the easy stuff & sometimes I get lucky if I use good search terms LOL.

Dustin, that is awesome. Did that come hidden in your rock? I wonder if it's a clam or like you think? Either way, very cool find!
 
When I have seen them they are mainly around bubble coral, that maybe a coincidence or their preferred food source.
next time I see them I will take more time to observe.
 
They're usually very specific eaters, which is why it's so hard to keep them. Some eat sponge, one type eats small flatworms, one type eats hydroids, etc.
 
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