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10/23/2007, 08:05 PM
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Disgusting critter!!What is it!!
Soon after having turning off the light a monster has appeared in our reef tank. I tried to take a picture but if not moving it is almost invisible to eye. It is a kind of huge slug 6 inches long, a little transparent, with appendages on its body that make it look like algaes. The more strange is its head: it has the form of a jelly fish, with little tentacles on the border, it wraps the pieces of rock, sucking it, the little tentacles capturing debris and brigning it in the center...
No, I am not joking!!! Good news, it seems more interested by what grows on the rocks than by the corals! But for God's sake WHAT IS IT!!!!! |
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10/23/2007, 08:08 PM
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Moved On
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Wow knida sounds like a bristle worm but hard to tell . It may be in here.
http://www.melevsreef.com/id/ |
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10/23/2007, 08:49 PM
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sounds like it could be a nudibranch, flatworm, cucumber or medusa worm. get a picture!
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10/23/2007, 09:35 PM
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Dear Marie-France,
there are many sites that you can go to that have awesome pictures that you can identify what you have when you can't get a picture. Try this: http://home2.pacific.net.ph/%7Esweet...itchworms.html http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyu...tchhikers.html also, go through this site until you find worms! http://saltcorner.com (pm me if it gets blocked out) Later, Ralph
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10/23/2007, 09:57 PM
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Formerly mysterybox
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Sorry, but the first 2 links don't work!
Here's the homepage. It's an awesome site for ID. Save it for your future finds, too! http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyu...tchhikers.html site 2: http://saltcorner.com Later, Ralph
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10/23/2007, 10:13 PM
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Hmmmm...
http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=meliviri http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=melileon Like those? Cheers, Don |
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10/23/2007, 11:42 PM
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Sounds like a sea cucumber, one of the deposit feeders. It feeds by sticking the tentacles one by one inside the mouth to coat them with mucus then picks up particles from rocks & sand and again sticks the tentacles into the mouth to wipe off the food & recoat with more mucus.
There's info on cukes at http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-12/rs/index.php http://www.wetwebmedia.com/cukeselfaqs.htm
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10/24/2007, 06:33 AM
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Pagojoe, That's it!!! Thank you very much!!! Melibe viridis.... You have no idea how I felt when I opened the link you gave me and I saw that awful beast again... Imagine, 6 inches of that horror!!! At least it seems harmless to fishes and corals.
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10/24/2007, 07:15 AM
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 I think those are kinda cool looking.
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10/24/2007, 08:49 AM
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I surmounted my disgust to observe it eating, and I have to admit it is a fascinating creature
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