Lego1602 Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Hey guys, thanks in advance for the help. I set up a Nano 14 gal. in the office more than a month ago, added live rocks two weeks after water and sand and just recently began to see things coming out of these rocks, like little feather dusters and little transparent feather look-a-like, a little crab and what looks like a clam in one of the small caves in the rocks, as well as a brittle star (i think) spiderly looking 5 leg star... Also saw what looks like a very small polyp. Please help me identify some of these critters and inhabitants. See pictures bellow. Link to comment
lobster876 Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 1 featherdusters 2 some type of lps encrusting coral 3 need better pic Link to comment
ndrobey Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 1. Feather dusters 2. Poop brown palys 3. ?? Need better pic. Link to comment
amphipod Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 Your clam is a scallop, pretty cool find. Your crab might be mithrax, I can't really see his back very well though. Your worms are sabellidae tube worms. Your polyp bunch looks like some sort of sps coral, so all in all everyone is great, except that the crab can be a little unpredictable. What's your plan for the tank? Link to comment
Lego1602 Posted November 12, 2015 Author Share Posted November 12, 2015 Awesome guys, thank you so much for your responses. Actually we identified the crab its an emerald crab, hes a little shy but ill post better pictures as soon as he steps out to explore. The scallop/clam is hidden in the cave and cant get a better picture, maybe with a gopro i can go in lol. Right now we added a Damsel and hes doing very good. We plan on making this a mix use, a reef and maybe another 2 fish. Added also some hermits and some snails. Between the hermits and the emerald crab, they are doing a very good job keeping the sand in very good conditions. Also the sps coral wasnt there when i put the rocks in the tank, apparently it either grew in a day or two or it moved there, i dont know how they grow. Link to comment
amphipod Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 Sounds like a good plan, just take things nice and easy and it should end up well. Sps corals are completely sessile, stony corals ( they have a definite skeleton which can be noticed if you touch it) , so if it is sps it couldn't have moved to the spot on its own. I'm thinking it was closed up and covered in dirt when you got it, so it wasn't noticed, then it opened up and shed the dirt when it got in your tank. Link to comment
Lego1602 Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 yeah im taking foreber and a day to get things done, i dont want to miss anything, my coworkers were going nuts as to when we could add and I quote, a 'Nemo' in the tank. lolol, oh well. About the sps, it could be, there are things in these rocks that im still just seeing for the first time, but that one by far has been the coolest, well that one and the crab, that was neat. thanks for the support, appreciate it. Link to comment
Super CatPig Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 #2 looks like porites. Could turn into something interesting Link to comment
Lego1602 Posted November 18, 2015 Author Share Posted November 18, 2015 Super, yes it does look like something like that, I read and it sayd they are some kind of hitch hiker so that could be why its growing just now in the tank. Thanks Link to comment
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