Does the red thing go farther into the rock? If so, it is a cucumber. They're all over the rocks at my grandparents.

It is sessile, lives in the scaley red bump - definitely not a cucumber.

Awesome pics Jere! Luvin' it!

what are you currently feeding the tank?

btw: garibaldi! http://reefhotspot.com/store/product_info....roducts_id=1887

some amazing shots jeremai! i really like this tank alot!

I feed each of the Urticinas a half cube of frozen Formula One a couple times a week. The Metridium gets a shot of zooplankton mixed with powdered Cyclo-peeze, and everything else picks at the leftovers. I tried feeding mysis cubes, but they float and the 'nems have trouble holding ont o them once they start breaking up.

That garibaldi is amazing - for a few weeks, till it grows big and starts tossing things around my tank like an oscar. How odd that they would have them. Must have been collected from Baja.

Yeah, they get huge! All the pics I viewed show them not as colorful as the one in the link. Great juvenile colors.

Hey can you send me the link to the Yahoo group that you got the livestock from?

Sure, let me find it...

Edit: here.

Hey jere,
can you maybe help w/ an ID of this anemone i got... it was free.. to me it looks somewhat like a coldwater species.... pics on this page at the bottom, it is orange based, with orange and black 'tenticles':
http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?...9400&st=160

Could be an Urticina, maybe U. eques, hard to tell. Keep feeding it, see how it does. I don't know anything about tropical anemones, so I'm not sure if there are any rarely collected anemones like yours. Did you ask where the shipment originated?

no, he thought it was 'majano' and it was on a peice of caulerpa

I apologise, you were right. I got a positive ID; read here for more info.

Its a type of sea cucumber......Does the base look like a chitton?

I haven't tried to peel it off the rock to check. Already got the ID, click the link above.

Yup creeping petal......It was racking my brain earlier. Your tanks kill.

I'M UNDER ATTACK!!!





Probably over a foot long, all told.

It will be hard to sleep tonite...

Wow! Was it going after anything in particular?

My colors off. Is it a peanut worm?

Just inching around, then dug into the sand. No idea what it is.

I bet it is getting hungry. Hope you can get an id.

Ooooo, I've got something similar to that in one of my NC's,,,,
Shiney tan color, segmented, about 10"long (no, not mt tool, you perv's!), with all kinds of tentecle things around the mouth. Mine is very quick though.

I have some in my 3 gallon, only 2" long seem to travel backwards and alot lighter in colour... Awsome tank btw

The tentacles around the mouth are what made me think it might be a peanut worm. Awfully big though. I will have to research. Does seem to be missing the "peanut" though?!

I have that exact worm in my seahorse tank. Posted about it on another site and got an ID of peanut worm.

I've seen mine strech about 5 inches and some of it was still in the rock. It mostly just comes out at night and hasn't hurt anything in the tank.

Yeah, this thing has some sort of sucker-type mouth - it was sticking to the glass and I saw it quite clearly. I wouldn't be worried if I knew what it was, but it could be anything considering where the rocks came from; unfortunately a resemblance to a tropical worm species doesn't help me much.

Actually, I think it does. Though I didn't find a positive id, I still think it is a type of peanut worm. Didn't realize there were so many different ones, tropical and temperate. Here are some interesting links I found. One is a list. I didn't have time to check them all for photos. Maybe you can get the time. Anyway, hth.

ReefKeeping.com

This, I can't recall what it is, but I emailed it home so it's something If that link doesn't work, click here and choose Appendix B.

This is the list. Maybe you can google the individual worms for pics.

I appreciate it, but I'm not really that invested; if it starts killing things I'll worry, but till then, Mystery Worm it will be.

Its a Micrura verrilli. They eat crustaceans, polychaetes, and are cannibals

Phylum: Nemertea
Class: Anopla
Order: Heteronemertea
Family: Lineidae
Genus: Micrura
Species: verrilli

Awesome work nano!

lol just doing my job

What is your job? Really!

Yeah, a colleague suggested it was a Micrura, as well. Thanks for the info. Maybe he'll find his tail and eat himself.

I tried, Jere. Guess I'm just a reeftard after all

I'm a junior in HS. When I get a job, I would like to be a biologist.

Thanks for the confirmation

Woo hoo! If you'd like practice, I could use an ID on the bryozoans I posted way back on page two or something.

i was browsing one of the aquarium magazines the other day and it had an article about temperate tanks. the author stated that you really shouldn't drop your chiller down past the recommended temperature... something about busting a tube. sorry, i can't remember... expansion tube maybe?

Yeah, the expansion tube is a part of the thermostat system, I believe. Some nut told me the same thing, but Current seemed to think it won't be a problem. We'll see, but I'd like a citation so I can read the article.

I dont think I even want to attempt that one lol.

It appears I may have jumped the gun on my identification of the anemones.

What I called U. felina is actually U. crassicornis.

What I called U. crassicornis is actually U. grebelnyi; could also possibly be Cribrinopsis albopunctata. Still waiting on a definite ID for that one.

The Sanamyans are making amazing progress in correctly classifying PAcific anemones; in the past they were incorrectly lumped together with their Atlantic counterparts.

aren't you due for a full tank shot?

WOW!! I fell off this thread your tank is sweet.

I agree, need another FTS!

reefin', send me those anemones and I'll get an updated FTS.

I should be getting another shipment from my guy in WA in a couple weeks. in the mean time, I gotta make my 3 shots a month, so I'll post some more photos soon.

Last night I witnessed one of my hermit crabs snip off a tentacle from my favorite anemone and proceed to eat it.

So this morning my hermit crabs are drying out nicely on the roof of my building.

lol!!!
PICS!!!

They're pretty dead at this point - cats probably got to them shorty after I set them out.

Bastards. I never really liked em anyway; and today my anemones are all a third again larger than normal. Pfft.

Roof baked hermits, yum yum! FTS ASAP!!!

for a photographer, you don't take very many photos

Exactly!

lol at adin