Auryn Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Thing #1 this little bugger has been crawling around in my tank for over a month now. I didn't buy him so Im guessing he came in on something that I put in the tank. I havent seen it harass anyone or any corals. I am just wondering what it is. When it moves you dont see any part of its body like u do when nassarius or astreas move around. Its flesh is dark-I've looked - and it has teeny tiny antennas the colors in the pic are true to life Thing #2 I spotted this thing a few days ago when I got a glimpse of the back of this rock that I had never seen before. On it used to sit the green zoos I got from a fellow local club member. I can't bring it closer to the camera for a closeup cause my clown is in a more violent mood than usual and I don't feel like fighting him off. Basically there is this little hole in the rock and out of it come these thin transparent antenna like tentacles, each with a little white bubble like tip at the end. If I touch the rock they retract into the hole far enough that it just looks like an empty hole. The pictures I could get of it are basically pretty useless cause they are all blurry and all you see of it against the rock are the little white bubble tips. I know this isnt much but its the best pic I can get at the moment Link to comment
Caesar777 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 The first is impossible to tell without a shot of the body/face. Cerith, maybe? Some nassarius species? Where's your latest stock come from? (Caribbean, Indo-pacific, etc.?) The second could be a ball-tipped anemone (I forget the common name), or a terebellid worm, or...? Link to comment
Auryn Posted September 21, 2005 Author Share Posted September 21, 2005 latest stock- some zoos- came from a fellow club member's tank- they were overpopulating his tank so he gave me some. The snail I guess must have been in my original lr cause nothing new has been put in the tank big enough to house that thing w/o going unnoticed. the snail is definately not nassarius_ i have several of those and this guy looks nothing like them. could that anemone be the reason why the zoos on that rock died? Link to comment
Caesar777 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Well, if it is a ball-tip, then it's non-photosynthetic and, in fact, hates light. Who knows. Did you try freshwater-dipping the zoo rock to check for nudis or Sundial snails? Link to comment
Auryn Posted September 21, 2005 Author Share Posted September 21, 2005 I fw dipped it for 3 minutes when I first got it thats why I am surprised it was there- maybe it was able to close up and not ge any fw in it. Link to comment
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