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

[Tristen]

It's pretty creepy in a kinda awesome sort of way, lol

 

[duyvo1124]

Unsure worm and pod?

Unsure worm and pod?

Hi, I just set up my first saltwater tank and bought few piece of live rock from a LFS I found a worm (about 2-3 inches? :worried and some kind of pod? Are these safe or I have to remove/ kill them? If I have to remove/kill them, then how can I do it?


Thanks a lot !!!

 

[Fishface1970]

I got my first combo coral rock 1 week ago, everything has been going great. Then today I spotted these freaky looking dudes on my coral rock. They look like some kind of nudibranch but I can't ID them. Please help and let me know if I need to get them out of my tank. It looks like there may be a few very tiny ones as well. The zoas have not opened fully for a few days either...

They are the frilly looking brown creepy dudes in the pics.
Dead center in this one:

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Center of this one too:

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Here is a wide shot to show their size, they are on the far left center, and far right center just left of the Xenia:

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[SushiGirl]

duyvo, they're probably fine, but hard to tell without a pic or better description.
Sekunda, I would dip that rock ASAP & keep an eye out. Nudis on corals are rarely a good thing.

 

[duyvo1124]

Unsure worm and pod?

Unsure worm and pod?

Hi, I just set up my first saltwater tank and bought few piece of live rock from a LFS I found a worm (about 2-3 inches? :worried and some kind of pod? Are these safe or I have to remove/ kill them? If I have to remove/kill them, then how can I do it?

Worm video:

http://s1138.beta.photobucket.com/user/duyvo1124/media/IMG_0382_zpsf1ae565d.mp4.html

Pod? video:

http://s1138.beta.photobucket.com/user/duyvo1124/media/IMG_0375_zpsfa14ce20.mp4.html

http://s1138.beta.photobucket.com/user/duyvo1124/media/IMG_0375_zpsfa14ce20.mp4.html





Photobucket album link (just in case):
http://s1138.beta.photobucket.com/user/duyvo1124/library/

Thanks a lot !!!

 

[Fishface1970]

Sekunda, I would dip that rock ASAP & keep an eye out. Nudis on corals are rarely a good thing.

Thanks SushiGirl. I will get some Coral Rx first thing tomorrow... I got some tweezers and pulled out the ones I could find. I will be more careful from now on... Thanks for the great thread as well, I know you spend a huge amount of time on here answering everyones questions.

:fish1:

 

[Fishface1970]

Apparently those are Zoanthid Eating Nudibranchs, I found them on the Coral RX page. Yay... my first corals... my first coral eaters. Oh... pickles.

 

[SushiGirl]

Duyvo, sandard bristleworm & a sand skater, both are fine!
Happens to the best of us, Sekunda!

 

[duyvo1124]

Duyvo, sandard bristleworm & a sand skater, both are fine!
Happens to the best of us, Sekunda!

Alright, Thank you. Was about to try to catch that worm LOL.

 

[SushiGirl]

No problem. Obviously I meant "standard" not "sandard"...darn phone keyboard! :lol:

 

[Rognin]

What's this white looking sponge/cucumber?

And it's starting to make babies

Also pretty sure this is aiptasia. It seemed on the verge of dying a week ago and now seems to be doing really well...

Thanks for the help!

 

[GeorgeMonnatJr]

First:

Scypha/Sycon/"Pineapple" Sponges

Last: majano anemone?

 

[Rognin]

So not aiptasia but majano. Is that good or bad?

 

[SushiGirl]

It's aiptasia. I tried to answer last night, but the site went down in the middle of my post LOL.

 

[jek]

Majano B_GONE

Majano B_GONE

Hi all, I've been creeping for awhile now... haven't posted much in the past, just like to do some light reading every once and awhile... "reading" a common thing relating to this hobby.

Anyway the short end of it is... I have had a Nano JBJ 28CF up and running for about 2 years now. I started with all dry/base rock, recently i acquired a new clean up crew, not gonna mention "where from tho"... about a week after introducing them, I found a "MAJANO" can someone give me a positive ID, when give me a good remedy to get rid of it.

Thanks in advance.

-Jek-

 

[Pix5c]

White flea like things

White flea like things

I only see them at night?

 

[wenwillwego]

Pix5c- Most likely harmless pods or "reef bugs."
Tons of pictures here to help id them- http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchpods.html

 

[Jendita]

I'm new to all of this; put in my cured live rock today and noticed these "tentacles" a little while later. There are a few dotted around the tank, one of them has a stalk to it.

Is it the dreaded Aiptasia?

 

[SushiGirl]

Sure looks like it. Sorry!

 

[chizleFX]

iv started a local tank with local sand and local fish n other organisms. been fine for 6 months or so. noticing now what looks like 2 worm castings, one attached to a rock about a half inch wide n 3 inches long
the other keeps building a mound that i knocked down a few times.
there are long, thin, white tentacles about 3 inches long and, like, one sixty-fourth of an inch thick that spread out and slowly retract collecting soil to build its "hill/casting".
any idea what im lookin at?