what is this micro thin leg spider thing on sps?

[highquality]

this is a way too cropped and too zoomed in shot of this .... well, spider on my sps. can you find it?

 

[highquality]

ok , the leggs are the only thing visible, barely! it is in the center of the pic. directly beside the purple algae that is just to the left center of pic. the micro thin legs in very center of pic are not algae. they are legs from a spider like spider thing crawling like a grand daddy longleg. it is so small i need a mico lens to really get a good shot. what the heck is this?

 

[highquality]

it is just crawling over the top side of the acro.

 

[AquaReeferMan]

Yeah I am going to tag along here. I have been seeing the same thing coming out on a peice of montipora I have. It is small and only comes out at night.

 

[highquality]

yeah, i took this pic a 30 min. ago, about 1:30 a.m.

 

[highquality]

the legs are more spider like than the snake like legs of a tiny star fish

 

[highquality]

are you getting any spots on your monti?

 

[Aquabucket]

Could be a small sea spider.

Try a google image search ~ loads of pics of them.

 

[clkwrk]

Here you go . These are my pics........They are bad guys and TMPCC will kill them . Infected acros need to be treated and inspected for egss.

 

[clkwrk]

I also have had these guys eat zoanthids

 

[highquality]

thats them! what is tmpcc ? im getting ready to dose Reff Exit, will that work on them? so they eat corals you say?

 

[Sk8r]

Look like baby stick-shrimpses.

 

[goda]

creepy

 

[clkwrk]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7454269#post7454269 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by highquality
thats them! what is tmpcc ? im getting ready to dose Reff Exit, will that work on them? so they eat corals you say?

TMPCC= Tropic Marin Pro coral Cure.

Fragfarmer.com usually has some.

And yes to answer your question they eat corals and don't seem to be picky. Very hard to manually remove IME

 

[scottfarcuz]

tmpcc -Tropic Marin Pro Coral Cure

http://www.saltycritter.com/medication.htm

oops posted at the same time as clkwrk

 

[highquality]

thanks, i better get on it. the acro you see there in first pic is turning pale at the base where these guys have been seen. Do you think a dosing of flatworm exit will take them out?

 

[clkwrk]

nope but not 100% sure.

 

[SERVO]

Wow, I have never seen anything like that!

Thanks for passing on the information.

 

[Amphiprion]

It is very difficult to see, but it also may be a Caprellid shrimp (or Skeleton shrimp).

 

[clkwrk]

sorry they are sea spiders...........Look for the old rk mag article you will find it . Once upon a spider