CarsonF Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 hey just curious to see what weird creatures we all have in our tanks. mine would definately be the morton bay bug show us a pic of your weird invert cheers Link to comment
supernip Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 slipper lobster? i hear they dont do well =( Link to comment
CarsonF Posted March 21, 2009 Author Share Posted March 21, 2009 slipper lobster? i hear they dont do well =( i dont think morton bay bugs are slippers but closely related because i read that slippers are only from hawaii or somthing Link to comment
micstarz Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 My stomatopods! Gonodactylellus viridis Gonodactylaceus glabrous No idea on name Odontodactylus scyllarus (RIP) Pseudosquilla ciliata Link to comment
xlzerolx Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 +1 on the mantis Here's mine it was an AWESOME red colour with yellow legs, but eventually molted into the regular green colour. I believe it was a G.Smithii. It's no longer part of this world now They are curious little critters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLItYrZ21vc Link to comment
DoubleD Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Pseudosquilla ciliata MMMM...Shrimp Quesadilla.. Link to comment
Psychosis Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 My peanut worm. Rather odd little fellow, deathly afraid of light. Ugly to boot, but I like all of the various worms and such in my tank. Link to comment
CarsonF Posted March 21, 2009 Author Share Posted March 21, 2009 mmmm nice mantis's people lookin good!!! ive got peanut worms too creepy things... the morton bug is so interesting. as soon as i turn the lights off and the moon lights on i jumps straight out of its burrow and starts foraging for food Link to comment
Koshmar Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Well, I've got three mantises that I would definately say are my coolest inverts but for the weirdest I give you my sand sifting starfish: Here it is getting down with the glass. Dorsal view. This thing is %#@$'in crazy! I can't tell you how many people have told me "OMG! It's going to starve and die and pollute your tank and then explode! Take it out! You're stupid for buying it! ect..." Apparently it takes frozen food stuffs and the like which I have been told and read is not suppose to happen... Yeah, I saw it strip the skin right off a silverside before in front of my own eyes. I've seen it attack snails, take a beating from my G. chiragra, and breakdance after falling off the tank glass. It's clung to my turkey baster I use for feeding before and I let it take a ride around the tank as it caught brineshrimp in the water column. I keep it in a twenty gallon long with my mantis (it's the only motile invert that can survive with the chiragra), I've caught hell from people telling me that the tank is too small and all that but I feed it regularly and haven't had a problem yet. No doubt someone else is going to tell me to sell it or something here as well but I doubt anyone has ever seen a sand sifter act like this before, it's crazy! Ranks right on up there with my two serial killer hermit crabs that have probably killed more snails than any of my mantis shrimps. Crazy starfish.... Note: I don't endorse keeping sand sifting stars in home aquaria so don't flame me for advocating their inclusion as pets because I'm not. Mine's just the exception and that's why it is my wierdest invert. Link to comment
FallenMonkey Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Probably my 3" Zebra Pistol Shrimp who's kill list includes 2 YWG, 1 YCG, 1 Hi-Fin Red Banded Goby, 7 Hermit Crabs, and 3 Margarita Snails. He now resides in a 3g Pico species only tank with the only thing that has ever survived his temper tantrums, an emerald crab the size of a nickel. I can also see his brain stomach moving/pulsing when I watch him from the top. Link to comment
PoopCola Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 all the things that come out at night worms and pods some things that Im not quite sure what they are Link to comment
micstarz Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Probably my 3" Zebra Pistol Shrimp who's kill list includes 2 YWG, 1 YCG, 1 Hi-Fin Red Banded Goby, 7 Hermit Crabs, and 3 Margarita Snails. He now resides in a 3g Pico species only tank with the only thing that has ever survived his temper tantrums, an emerald crab the size of a nickel. I can also see his brain stomach moving/pulsing when I watch him from the top. LMAO at "kill list"!!! Link to comment
FallenMonkey Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 LMAO at "kill list"!!! , he's a bastard, I would put money up on him against a mantis around his size. Link to comment
wombat Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Definitely one of the most uncommon and weirdest I've encountered is an echiuran: This is just the "mouth" of this animal, most of it is imbedded in the live rock where you'll never see it. It flops this forked appendage out on the rocks to mop up detritus and such. Link to comment
CarsonF Posted March 23, 2009 Author Share Posted March 23, 2009 Definitely one of the most uncommon and weirdest I've encountered is an echiuran: This is just the "mouth" of this animal, most of it is imbedded in the live rock where you'll never see it. It flops this forked appendage out on the rocks to mop up detritus and such. WOW that thing is weird!! is it yours? Link to comment
micstarz Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Wow. I don't want to have an echiuran ever then. Fallen Monkey, I think it depends on the individual mantis but if both creatures went full out it would be very very noisy... Link to comment
newbiecarlz Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 +1 on chitons! my other fave was my decorator crab Link to comment
wombat Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 WOW that thing is weird!! is it yours? It's not my picture but I had one a very long time ago. Here's another example of an echiuran. This is an "innkeeper worm" (although it's not actually a worm), they live buried in temperate mudflats. You can watch the muscular contractions as it pulls water into its body. They look and act a bit like a human colon. Very weird animals. Link to comment
dahliaheartsyou Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 cody jr. my pom pom crab... he hides under my open brain and then attempts to intimidate the hermits and snails by waving his poms about... Link to comment
CarsonF Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 ohh nice pom poms the bottom pic looks like its angry haha Link to comment
johnmaloney Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 stiff pen shell. He keeps tossing and turning in my pencil cap bed though. Ahh he is cool enough I don't care... He lives in my 72 display now. Link to comment
Hoonie778 Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 My Tuxedo Urchin His name is Colonel Spikeface He likes to pick up everything loose in the tank and wear it all as a hat! So cute! Link to comment
PBUEHH Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 my yellow sea cucumber. i don't have a good enough pic of him though. i think now that i have a good feeding strategy for him and he seems to be more acclimated, i might try to get some more... he's just too cute ps i don't actually know the sex of the 'cuke. Link to comment
Eyford01 Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 9 hole abalone and chitons, one of the Chitons is a Hitchhiker about 5 mm long and pink the other is store bought and big and black and white but the abalone is my favorite it practically jumps off the rock to grab the nori I feed him Ooh and pickle (little black hitchiker cucumber) or... The severed arm!!! Muahahaha type of linkia I believe, found it in a LFS LR tank it had 4 tiny nubs where it's growing back the other arms This thread is cool, inverts over fish any day! Link to comment
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