Oceanminded
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A few of the things I haven't been able to assign a definite ID to after looking through this thread and other hitch hiker indexes.
Brown and beige banded hollow-looking tubes...
I have a couple patches of these. These guys have feather-duster looking things coming out of them. I am afraid they may be colonial hydroids. Can anyone confirm if they are hydroids or feather dusters? Advice on getting rid of them (if that is what they are)?
Thoughts on this nem? I have about 15 of these little things...all nearly clear or translucent, most beige/peach in tint but some very pale pink. Ranging in size from 3 mm to 1 cm. I feel like they are corynactis or psueudocorynactis. They retract in the light and most have moved to shadowed areas after I turned the LEDs on for a couple hours.
Also a tiny brownish red protrusion with tiny white threads coming out too small to photograph. I'm guessing Foraminiferans? The protrusion is about half a centimeter out from the rock, the threads are just kind of waving around with the current.
There is also something black hiding on the ceiling of one of the larger caves in one of the rocks. It looks like it has suction cups or perhaps short stubby spines. Unfortunately it is too steep of an angle to photograph well or get a good look at. Seems to be partially in the rock and partially exposed. Any thoughts? I can see 3 cm worth of mystery creature. I'm hoping it isn't a shield slug.
Thanks to this thread and the hitchhiker index at lionfishlair.com I've been able to identify a bivalve, bryozoans, serpula feather dusters, polychaetes, ball and pineapple sponges, colonial tunicates, assorted other sponges (orange/yellow), a vermetid, and munnid isopods.
Brown and beige banded hollow-looking tubes...
I have a couple patches of these. These guys have feather-duster looking things coming out of them. I am afraid they may be colonial hydroids. Can anyone confirm if they are hydroids or feather dusters? Advice on getting rid of them (if that is what they are)?
Thoughts on this nem? I have about 15 of these little things...all nearly clear or translucent, most beige/peach in tint but some very pale pink. Ranging in size from 3 mm to 1 cm. I feel like they are corynactis or psueudocorynactis. They retract in the light and most have moved to shadowed areas after I turned the LEDs on for a couple hours.
Also a tiny brownish red protrusion with tiny white threads coming out too small to photograph. I'm guessing Foraminiferans? The protrusion is about half a centimeter out from the rock, the threads are just kind of waving around with the current.
There is also something black hiding on the ceiling of one of the larger caves in one of the rocks. It looks like it has suction cups or perhaps short stubby spines. Unfortunately it is too steep of an angle to photograph well or get a good look at. Seems to be partially in the rock and partially exposed. Any thoughts? I can see 3 cm worth of mystery creature. I'm hoping it isn't a shield slug.
Thanks to this thread and the hitchhiker index at lionfishlair.com I've been able to identify a bivalve, bryozoans, serpula feather dusters, polychaetes, ball and pineapple sponges, colonial tunicates, assorted other sponges (orange/yellow), a vermetid, and munnid isopods.

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