Unknown vagabond... Help?

[broccoli]

Hello!
I saw this little fella roaming around the side of my tank last night, I don't know what it is. I think it looks like a slug of some kind (that's why i'm in invertebrates). But I more want to know if it's okay and not going to morph into some crazy monster and eat everything. :lol:


It's the long little gray thing on my glass:

It was moving pretty quick. Sorry for the bad pic, my camera's batteries were dead, so iPhone had to be it.


any help is appreciated! Thanks! :rollface:

 

[charlesr1958]

Sorry, would need for you to remove it from the tank and photograph it while its in a shallow, small dish of water in order to see some of the details of it.

Chuck

 

[broccoli]

I will try that, Chuck.

I just hope the little feller makes another appearance.

 

[Salamander]

Really hard to tell from that angle. Try looking up chiton and stomatella. Could be one of those but could also be something else.

 

[Guygettnby]

take a look at flatworms aswell. kinda resembles one from what i can see. just do a google search for polyclad flatworm and see if they look alike.

 

[Ludwigia73]

I thought flatworm as well, you beat me to it

 

[Superstretch18]

My first thought was a chiton, but it's hard to tell from the photo...

 

[Zire]

Looks like some sort of flatworm to me.

 

[Guygettnby]

did you ever check into the whole flatworm theory? flatworms can tend to do some damage in your tank if it is the right species. i had a giant polyclad flatworm that i cought eating my snails...

 

[broccoli]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14949422#post14949422 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Guygettnby
did you ever check into the whole flatworm theory? flatworms can tend to do some damage in your tank if it is the right species. i had a giant polyclad flatworm that i cought eating my snails...

Sorry, I went out of town for a few days, this is the first chance I've had to get back to this forum.

It hasn't made a reappearance.

I looked up pictures of all the critters named above, and I am in a toss up between flatworm and chiton.


The bottom of it looked like the chiton in this diagram:

But it kinda looked like the Cestoplanidae Flatworm (polyclad) listed in this list:

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchworms.html (the site blocked right clicking, so i can't link the pic)

I'm not sure still. But I wish it would come back out, i'll catch it and separate it so i can figure out what it is.




Thank you everyone for helping!

 

[broccoli]

on a side note, i got some assist corals and one of them got devoured, I was pretty certain that it was this little unknown creature, I was on a mission to find this thing after that.
But then I caught one of my hermit crabs in the act when it started on the second one... That little punk! lol!

 

[dudley moray]

looks like a stomatella snail to me they are really fast

 

[Elysia]

It appears that you can see light coming through the animal in the photo. That would mean that it is a flatworm, as chiton or stomatella (which it isn't) would have a shell and a thicker body that you wouldn't be able to see through. The fact that you had a coral frag disappear would also strongly suggest that this is a polyclad flatworm.

 

[broccoli]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14959817#post14959817 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Elysia
It appears that you can see light coming through the animal in the photo. That would mean that it is a flatworm, as chiton or stomatella (which it isn't) would have a shell and a thicker body that you wouldn't be able to see through. The fact that you had a coral frag disappear would also strongly suggest that this is a polyclad flatworm.

Thank you!

Now I gotta find the little bugger and extract it before it strikes my frag again!

 

[Elysia]

Best of luck!