Please help identify

[John07]

Would you please help identify what are on the three pictures?

 

[explorer07]

That little guy at the bottom looks like a pod
The other 2 not to sure of

 

[Mike Ordner]

First picture is mini feather dusters, a type of polychaete. Middle picture looks like the surface of Mars. Last one is an amphipod. Pictures one and three are good guys.

 

[John07]

Thank you for your help
The second picture is of sand bed and I have these tube like things on it

 

[Mike Ordner]

Tubes coming out of the sand sounds like another type of polychaete. If this is so, then it is also a good thing.

 

[cloak]

Check these out.

http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhiker/hitchhiker.shtml

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-05/rs/

HTH.

 

[John07]

Thank you for the help and links

 

[Crooked Reef]

Don't see it in pic two but if it looks like the tube is built from the sand it is probably a spionid worm. Beneficial.