please identify this guy

saline solution · 05/06/2007, 10:27 PM

small, 6 or so legs, filters water and eats particles trapped in his legs. Showed up on florida live rock.

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...1/DSC01368.jpg

wrott · 05/06/2007, 11:45 PM

May be a basket star??

HBtank · 05/07/2007, 12:20 AM

Better description or picture needed for more than guesses.

Tang Salad · 05/07/2007, 12:58 AM

Where in the picture is it?

DSMpunk · 05/07/2007, 06:41 AM

There ya go.

alan214 · 05/07/2007, 06:52 AM

Was that picture in focus when it was on your camera? It's hard to make out anything now.

dc · 05/07/2007, 07:09 AM

It looks like a foraminiferan

Frick-n-Frags · 05/07/2007, 07:19 AM

or a colonial hydroid.

SDguy · 05/07/2007, 08:07 AM

Does it move? If yes, then it could be a white basket star of something. Otherwise, probably a foraminiferan, like mine:

saline solution · 05/07/2007, 08:34 AM

It is in the center of the picture. The white things are its legs. It moves its legs on its own. It puts them in its mouth, and then back out into the water to catch more particles in the water. It seems to stay where it is though. When it closes up it kinda looks like a pineapple shaped blob. I will get a better pic when I go home today for lunch. Are basket stars nice?

HBtank · 05/07/2007, 08:36 AM

A Sea Apple?

saline solution · 05/07/2007, 08:44 AM

I dont think it is a foraminiferan. I have had those before, and they are different. I thing you may be right with the sea apple. It doesnt really look like any of the basket star pics i can find on the internet.

SDguy · 05/07/2007, 10:22 AM

So they do move then?

05/06/2007, 10:27 PM	#1
saline solution Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Coeur D'alene, ID Posts: 142	please identify this guy small, 6 or so legs, filters water and eats particles trapped in his legs. Showed up on florida live rock. http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...1/DSC01368.jpg

05/06/2007, 11:45 PM	#2
wrott Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Alabama Posts: 2,912	May be a basket star?? __________________ OK, but where does the meat go! ------------------------------------------------ 120g SPS, 125g mix, 56g FOWLR, 20g qt

05/07/2007, 12:20 AM	#3
HBtank Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA Posts: 2,957	Better description or picture needed for more than guesses. __________________ 80g Aiptasia dominated reef tank.. with fish and now a bunch of berghia! Current Tank Info: 80g tank, re-starting a reef after a zoanthid nudibranch plauge, followed by months of steady and unstoppable STN/RTN, crashed; stayed FOWLR for a couple years, currently an aiptasia dominated reef tank with fishies and BERGHIA

05/07/2007, 12:58 AM	#4
Tang Salad Algae skeptic Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: 78702 Posts: 3,098	Where in the picture is it? __________________ Your algae is not special. Current Tank Info: TBD ADA 120-P SPS NLPS

05/07/2007, 06:41 AM	#5
DSMpunk Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Des Moines IA Posts: 1,064	There ya go. __________________ -Sean Current Tank Info: SPS Dominated 150

05/07/2007, 06:52 AM	#6
alan214 Premium Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: The Colony, TX Posts: 1,258	Was that picture in focus when it was on your camera? It's hard to make out anything now. __________________ I live really close to the airport. The other day I was walking across the living room and the stewardess told me to take my seat. Current Tank Info: 73G FOWLR

05/07/2007, 07:09 AM	#7
dc Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Wyoming Posts: 44,684	It looks like a foraminiferan __________________ Debi ~60 Cube~ Why? Because I said so of course. -Sent via Tapatalk Smoke Signals-

05/07/2007, 07:19 AM	#8
Frick-n-Frags Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: north central OH Posts: 10,740	or a colonial hydroid. __________________ Only Dead fish swim with the current. Current Tank Info: 2 50 gal tanks, sump, still BB

05/07/2007, 08:07 AM	#9
SDguy Fish heads unite! Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: San Diego Posts: 23,384	Does it move? If yes, then it could be a white basket star of something. Otherwise, probably a foraminiferan, like mine: __________________ Peter SDMAS member Marine tanks since 1989. ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º> ·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·.. ><((((º> Current Tank Info: 240g butterfly and angel FOWLR. 15g QT.

05/07/2007, 08:34 AM	#10
saline solution Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Coeur D'alene, ID Posts: 142	It is in the center of the picture. The white things are its legs. It moves its legs on its own. It puts them in its mouth, and then back out into the water to catch more particles in the water. It seems to stay where it is though. When it closes up it kinda looks like a pineapple shaped blob. I will get a better pic when I go home today for lunch. Are basket stars nice?

05/07/2007, 08:36 AM	#11
HBtank Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA Posts: 2,957	A Sea Apple?

05/07/2007, 08:44 AM	#12
saline solution Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Coeur D'alene, ID Posts: 142	I dont think it is a foraminiferan. I have had those before, and they are different. I thing you may be right with the sea apple. It doesnt really look like any of the basket star pics i can find on the internet. __________________ its a grand hobby Shaun Current Tank Info: just a glass box, and a flashlight

05/07/2007, 10:22 AM	#13
SDguy Fish heads unite! Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: San Diego Posts: 23,384	So they do move then? __________________ Peter SDMAS member Marine tanks since 1989. ><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º> ·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·.. ><((((º> Current Tank Info: 240g butterfly and angel FOWLR. 15g QT.