Pix & ID: Critters that come in your rocks: the good and the bad.
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More hitchhiker photo's
More hitchhiker photo's
I'm pretty sure i've already identified these guys but there are two in here that I haven't yet.
Let me know if i'm on the right track
Bristle Worm
Hyroids?
These are red tentacles that sweep the sandbed and retract with light. No clue what they are
This is some hitchhiker red stick stuff, again I think it may be a coral but i'm not sure
More hitchhiker photo's
I'm pretty sure i've already identified these guys but there are two in here that I haven't yet.
Let me know if i'm on the right track
Bristle Worm
Hyroids?
These are red tentacles that sweep the sandbed and retract with light. No clue what they are
This is some hitchhiker red stick stuff, again I think it may be a coral but i'm not sure
SushiGirl
Premium Member
Once again there's a post in my email that's not showing up in the thread. In response to it:
Bristleworm
Ball anemones, get rid of them if you can. They've taken over my tank LOL.
Spaghetti/hair worm, harmless.
Maybe some type of algae? Don't know of any corals like that.
Bristleworm
Ball anemones, get rid of them if you can. They've taken over my tank LOL.
Spaghetti/hair worm, harmless.
Maybe some type of algae? Don't know of any corals like that.
Yeah I reported it, again... hummm.. I wonder if this thread needs to be broken apart and a new one started, or just fragged out maybe?
SushiGirl
Premium Member
Could be. It's a difficult thread. It would be easier if from the beginning people would have looked through it before posting. There's only a small handful of things that get posted that aren't already in here, but it's time consuming to go through every page looking for what you need ID'd now because it's so long. That was why I started my albums & my homepage, hoping to take a little strain off the thread, but it didn't work! LOL
Nah, it doesn't have anything to do with the thread
. Its just our spam filters at work. New members posting links tends to trigger it which just requires us to clear it manually which is done periodically through the day.
Nah, it doesn't have anything to do with the thread
Ahhh keep up the good work!
cloak
New member
This might be an algae known as "Galaxaura fastigiata."
Update on my coral eating critter: It may be a worm I found in the rock that had the mucus tube structures and the affected corals. (I took the rock out). I flushed out a normal bristleworm type critter, then another worm that was quite different. I wish I could take a pic but it got a bit mangled during the extrication procedure....it is the size of a smallish bristleworm but has no bristles anywhere. It's kind of orangey/pink color with a darker red line down the middle (looks like blood/innards). It's definitely segmented and has really small little nubs where a bristleworm has bristles. Possibly the Oenone? Anyway, it's out. We'll see if the problem occurs again, hopefully not!
A eunicid...I will google pics and compare. The head, well there was some squishing that inadvertently occured as I was chiseling bits of rock apart (determined to find the thing).
Ok, back from looking at pictures. Too bad the head got squished, now it's hard to tell. It really does look like some of those eunicids though. Not, thank goodness, like the one laid out 7feet long next to a car! Yikes!!
This is the one it looked like most: (although headless)
http://invertebrates.si.edu/palola/opt/Fig4_worm_hr.jpg
Ok, back from looking at pictures. Too bad the head got squished, now it's hard to tell. It really does look like some of those eunicids though. Not, thank goodness, like the one laid out 7feet long next to a car! Yikes!!
This is the one it looked like most: (although headless)
http://invertebrates.si.edu/palola/opt/Fig4_worm_hr.jpg
Zimmer
New member
ok so i got a couple hermitcrab ID's for someone...? the brown ones were sold to me as scarlets, which as they have gotten bigger i can see now that i don't think they are, so what are they? they are probably about.... 1/2"-3/4" big, getting bigger, eating diatoms and other substrate crud like crazy!! both claws the same size, both used for eating. so far they haven't caused any trouble but i would like to be forewarned if thats going to be the case soon lol
this little guy is TINY - like, smaller than my legit blue dwarf hermits! he came to me as a snail from the LFS, and obviously is not. its hard to see but the right claws is much larger than the left, and he only uses the left to eat with. he also is constantly digging and burying himself in the sand... normal? seems to eat algae mostly. my hubby calls him the albino lol
this little guy is TINY - like, smaller than my legit blue dwarf hermits! he came to me as a snail from the LFS, and obviously is not. its hard to see but the right claws is much larger than the left, and he only uses the left to eat with. he also is constantly digging and burying himself in the sand... normal? seems to eat algae mostly. my hubby calls him the albino lol
ReeferKimberly
Marley & Me
Did you guys decide it was indeed a eunicid? Because I had the exact same worm as the link. Where did you find that? We decided earlier in this thread it was a oenone fulgida.....so is this (what I am about to post and what is in that link) a eunicid or a oenone?
(this is the pic in that link above)
(and this was the one in my tank you guys IDed as a Oenone Fulgida, and in person looks just like that ^^^)
about 8-10 inches
SushiGirl
Premium Member
I have no idea on the hermits, I believe GerritM (not sure on the spelling of his name) is really good at hermit ID. A lot of them don't really have common names.
I'll leave worm ID to LeslieH, as she's the expert there.
Green0j0s, not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at.
I'll leave worm ID to LeslieH, as she's the expert there.
Green0j0s, not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at.
