Pix & ID: Critters that come in your rocks: the good and the bad.
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Ptyochromis
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I know I have flatworms but im trying to figure out which kind? There has been a debate if they are the bad red kind or the algae eating white kind? If anyone has any insight into this it would be great! I added a 6 line wrasse to the tank today and started to siphon them off the glass. I have not seen them on anything other than the glass. Thanks again!
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I have those, they don't seem to bother anything. They appear to aggregate on algae growing on the glass. I only see them in my refugium, I guess my 6-line keeps them out of the DT (along with my stomatella :sad2
. The flat worms that have more of an ambiguous shape seem to be the trouble makers.
Depending on the size of your tank you may come to regret that 6 line purchase. I know I do.
Rob in Puyallup
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Is it common for (what appear to be) live and swimming Mysis shrimp to show up from nowhere? I have a ton of them in my 10 gallon reef tank, most swimming at the back of the tank around the prefilter sponges.
Ptyochromis
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Yep. Sounds like they are aggregating around food sources.
revsuicide
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Hi,
Could I have an ID please, I have done extensive research and followed this thread and have found nothing here like it.
Firstly they are the bell type things in the image, they are prob 3-5 mm wide, and they are fairly softish. I am fairly sure when my cleaner shrimp got near them to check them out, one of them drop a small ball out of the inside of the bell. i could be wrong, but i am 95% it did. i also noticed pods like to go inside the bell too.
And also just above the bells, i think it's some sort of coral. there was a skeleton on that spot for about a month, and now there are tiny tiny polyps growing on the skeleton.
Could I have an ID please, I have done extensive research and followed this thread and have found nothing here like it.
Firstly they are the bell type things in the image, they are prob 3-5 mm wide, and they are fairly softish. I am fairly sure when my cleaner shrimp got near them to check them out, one of them drop a small ball out of the inside of the bell. i could be wrong, but i am 95% it did. i also noticed pods like to go inside the bell too.
And also just above the bells, i think it's some sort of coral. there was a skeleton on that spot for about a month, and now there are tiny tiny polyps growing on the skeleton.
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hogfanreefer
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I have know idea what the bell shaped things are but they are cool looking. The coral almost looks like a cyphastrea? I bet the experts here will have an idea.
revsuicide
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Pdm2476
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I have those, they don't seem to bother anything. They appear to aggregate on algae growing on the glass. I only see them in my refugium, I guess my 6-line keeps them out of the DT (along with my stomatella :sad2
The flat worms that have more of an ambiguous shape seem to be the trouble makers.
Depending on the size of your tank you may come to regret that 6 line purchase. I know I do.
The 6 line is in my 30 he was the last one added so he has been ok ...Im upgrading in January to a 65 I may or may not add him to that we will see.
ID please
ID please
Can anyone identify these for us?
The first picture looks like a wooly bug just noticed this evening and curious what it is and if it is harmful?
The second photo, there are two parts we'd like to have identified and to know more about.
The first is on the left hand side of the image the threads which appear to be red tentacle-like, there are several and does move to one of the rocks.
The second part of the image, is the wormy looking things that are coming out of the rock on the right of the picture.
ID please
Can anyone identify these for us?
The first picture looks like a wooly bug just noticed this evening and curious what it is and if it is harmful?
The second photo, there are two parts we'd like to have identified and to know more about.
The first is on the left hand side of the image the threads which appear to be red tentacle-like, there are several and does move to one of the rocks.
The second part of the image, is the wormy looking things that are coming out of the rock on the right of the picture.
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Thanks Sushi Girl
Thanks Sushi Girl
I am taking it that the spaghetti worm is the red thread like thing...
what about the white wormy looking things coming out of the rock on the right side of the second picture?
Over the moon that the two previously identified creatures were harmless!
Thanks Sushi Girl
I am taking it that the spaghetti worm is the red thread like thing...
what about the white wormy looking things coming out of the rock on the right side of the second picture?
Over the moon that the two previously identified creatures were harmless!
Rob in Puyallup
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The white wormy looking things look like "casts" made my other worms, made out of mucous and sand.
Do people tend to have issues with limpets or do you do something to keep them in check? I see them referred to as desirable here. Both of my previous reef tanks were basically infested with some species of them.
I thought they were super cool at first, and got them in a cleanup crew kit. For whatever reason their population just exploded, and they were always extremely visible day or not. It may be coincidence, but they also seemed to line up with a reduction in my other clean up critters.
They were attractive little animals, and did clean lines in the algae films on the tank glass, but their numbers were just way too much. I pulled upwards of 50 of them out of my little 3 gallon desktop tank at one point and it didn't seem to slow the population. The 12 gallon so thick with them that I felt like I could hardly enjoy the tank.
Removal wasn't really a picnic either. They stuck so firmly that a lot of the times you ended up breaking their shell loose from the body, which always made me worry they were going to be a nitrate problem if the body got away.
Anyone else run into issues like that with them?
I thought they were super cool at first, and got them in a cleanup crew kit. For whatever reason their population just exploded, and they were always extremely visible day or not. It may be coincidence, but they also seemed to line up with a reduction in my other clean up critters.
They were attractive little animals, and did clean lines in the algae films on the tank glass, but their numbers were just way too much. I pulled upwards of 50 of them out of my little 3 gallon desktop tank at one point and it didn't seem to slow the population. The 12 gallon so thick with them that I felt like I could hardly enjoy the tank.
Removal wasn't really a picnic either. They stuck so firmly that a lot of the times you ended up breaking their shell loose from the body, which always made me worry they were going to be a nitrate problem if the body got away.
Anyone else run into issues like that with them?
JiveWalker
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Antonbarron
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Looks like a sea cucumber, if it's the type I think it is it should be reef safe. Here's a link
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=497+502+715&pcatid=715
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=497+502+715&pcatid=715
JiveWalker
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Anyone on the pic I posted?
cloak
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It's kind of hard to make out, but my guess would be some form of red macro algae. You might just have to wait for it to grow a little bit bigger before a positive id can be provided though.
JiveWalker
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Thank you. I'm hoping it's not red bubble algae. It is growing like a linear bubble though. Will let it grow and re post when it's bigger.
