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

[Sugar Magnolia]

I've learned so much from Don and Leslie LOL.

FTFY. :lol:

As have I. Dr Shimek was a good influence, as was Mike (greenbean).

 

[SushiGirl]

Haha, thought of that after I hit post! Get out of my head! Haven't seen her in quite a while...wonder if she's worm hunting anywhere fun?

 

[wenwillwego]

It's not an olive snail, can't remember the exact name but when I asked for an ID on them I was told by the resident snail guru - Pagojoe, that they are predatory to other very small snails. If you want an exact name you could always send a PM to Don (Pagojoe).

Never mind, found my old thread. It's a marginellid. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1597119&highlight=snail+id

Thanks for the info. A snail killer is what I was worried about (and what I had read the Olives were), so next time it shows its face I'll be pulling it out.

 

[ReeferKimberly]

Not an olive snail. At least I really really really think it's a "Little Donkey" Cowrie. I have one and he looks exactly the same. Well, looked, before he grew up a bit more.

(ok looking at pics of marginellid on google images and also that kind of cowrie they look almost exactly the same. She is probably right, more experience than me, but still not an olive snail at least)

 

[Azasb]

Hermit/ Micro Hermit crabs

Hermit/ Micro Hermit crabs

I bought some 10 hermit crabs because I thought they would be help clean the tank. I just read a post stating only micro hermits would be beneficial. I would like to know: do I have micro or regular hermit crabs. If they are just hermit and not micro, what can I do with them? I'm on my iPad so I cannot post the pic.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

The hermits will be fine.

 

[Cymonous]

Can anyone identify? I had to zoom in all the way to get a decent shot. They are very small right now. About the size of a pellet.

 

[nanoreef heaven]

Those look neat whatever they are.

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[Sugar Magnolia]

Can anyone identify? I had to zoom in all the way to get a decent shot. They are very small right now. About the size of a pellet.

Looks like some species of small featherduster worms. Might be serpulids in the rockwork. Very pretty!

 

[Ambition]

Good or bad?

 

[nanoreef heaven]

It looks similar to a pom pom crab with the marking and body shape but not the coloring. Idk.

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[Shorty Harris]

So this is a spaghetti worm?

So this is a spaghetti worm?

Several days ago you folks helped me with worms that were building sand tubes in my new tank. Here's a supermacro photo of one that was out of a tube and working it's way across the glass in the dark. After a couple minutes with the lights on it balled up and dropped off the glass and drifted back to the sand.

BTW, although slightly out of focus, can you tell me what the little bug is at about the 4 oclock position from the worm? Is it a copepod? The glass is swarming with them and another type of tiny bug with a different body shape.

Thanks again!

 

[nanoreef heaven]

That's crazy looking. Lol. And you are correct on pods. :thumbup: Good pic by the way.

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[Shorty Harris]

That's crazy looking. Lol. And you are correct on pods. :thumbup: Good pic by the way.

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Thanks! That thing would be pretty scary if that was its actual size! Photo taken with my new Olympus TG-1

 

[nanoreef heaven]

Thanks! That thing would be pretty scary if that was its actual size! Photo taken with my new Olympus TG-1

You would be correct my friend. Lol. I don't even like looking at it even if it's small. (Quivers) ewwww!

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[SushiGirl]

Specifically, the bug is a copepod with an egg sac on its butt. The others are probably either copepods without an egg sac or munnid isopods. Hair/spaghetti worms are very creepy looking!

 

[dsdaley77]

Any idea what this might be? Pointy parts look hard, not like a tentacle, and it has a base much like a zoa. Thanks in advance

 

[ReeferKimberly]

I couldn't get a pic if I tried....but picture this....the same colors and pattern of a brittle star but with the consistancy and length of a spaghetti worm.

Whole buncha striped 'legs' coming out of a hole in the rock, irritating my zoas. Way longer than a brittle stars legs and way more of them. Do spaghetti worms come in the brittle star colors and stripes? They are about 2-3 inches long, the 'legs' and came with a new rock with zoas on it, and do not appear to be moving house any time soon.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Any idea what this might be? Pointy parts look hard, not like a tentacle, and it has a base much like a zoa. Thanks in advance

First thought is mojano anemone which is a pest that you'll want to eradicate.

I couldn't get a pic if I tried....but picture this....the same colors and pattern of a brittle star but with the consistancy and length of a spaghetti worm.

Whole buncha striped 'legs' coming out of a hole in the rock, irritating my zoas. Way longer than a brittle stars legs and way more of them. Do spaghetti worms come in the brittle star colors and stripes? They are about 2-3 inches long, the 'legs' and came with a new rock with zoas on it, and do not appear to be moving house any time soon.

Definitely a terebellid worm. They have a diverse coloration and dwell in rocks and sand. Good stuff!

 

[SushiGirl]

That pic doesn't look like a majano, but it is some kind of anemone (not aiptasia either).