JohnnyMTB Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 Saw the weirdest thing in the tank tonight, going through to lock the house up after dark and noticed a "flash" in the tank. Looked almost like a firefly, it just came on and stopped in under a second. Waited about five minutes and saw it again, It had almost a bluish tint to it, turned on the lights, seemed to be coming from a hole in the LR but I couldn't be sure. BTW its Florida Keys live rock. Any clues?? Haven't heard of shrimp doing this, some kind of copopod? Wish I could take a pic, be like trying to photograph a lightning strike. Anyone have any serious ideas? Link to comment
Acoustic Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 It's the lights from your VCR flashing and reflecting onto the tank glass. Your tank is telling you to figure it out and set the time on the thing! Link to comment
monsoon Posted October 15, 2003 Share Posted October 15, 2003 Electric Flame Scallop? Link to comment
MrKrispy Posted October 15, 2003 Share Posted October 15, 2003 those things rule. Add some to a tank with those little electric jellyfish, throw in a few GI joe figures and you can play ABYSS over and over... Link to comment
enrico Posted October 15, 2003 Share Posted October 15, 2003 Johnny I read something similiar somewhere but I can't remember where... If I'm not wrong it should be some kind of copepod or similiar stuff... Search around... Sorry I'm not of much help... Link to comment
Dave ESPI Posted October 15, 2003 Share Posted October 15, 2003 There are some Tunicates that have an electrical pulseation to them, but they are very very uncommon to have in liverock and then again to have them survive trans it and being exposed to air for more than an hour. ps: Lay off the 'shrooms.... they make ya see things d00d. Link to comment
onthefly Posted October 16, 2003 Share Posted October 16, 2003 When they said try "Shrooms", they meant the ones that grow in dirt........maybe your like John Travolta character is "phenomina" and next thing you know you'll know Japanese and be able to derive Avagoadro's number standing on your head in the shower...... Link to comment
tam Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 I think its a type of bristle worm. We found a couple while we were tear down a tank @ a LFS where I work. Too bad the stores all F/W, or I'd be up to my eyeballs in tanks! Tam Link to comment
MarLooney Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 not electric flame scallop... it doesn't exactly light up bright enough to see in the dark. it's more of a color change than a light. Link to comment
Coral Dilema Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 I had lots of little flashes of light in the sump on my 40g i had several years ago. They were coming from the inside surface of the glass . . .I turned on the lights and it looked like featherdusters everywhere on the glass, very small ones, but at night they would flash occasionally, and If I tapped the glass on the sump they would all go off at once, Was pretty cool, looked like a small bluish green light . . Things like that are what make reef keeping so interesting . . new stuff poping up all the time. Link to comment
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