Pix & ID: Critters that come in your rocks: the good and the bad.

[LeslieH]

Super! Angel - the co-author of nudi books for the Caribbean & Indo-Pacific - will put it to good use. Thanks!

Are your rocks & critters most Indo-Pacific?

[Tristen]

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No idea where this guy came from... It's like a muscle but only half of one... Or a snail but only kinda ...

[nanoreef heaven]

Stomatella snail

*Sent from my little corner of the reef. Nano nano!*

[Shorty Harris]

I have just your typical beginner polyps, and a few LPS and SPS. I'm guessing its Pacific. Not sure about where the CUC stuff come from.

BTW, watch your mailbox, shipped it from the post office today.

Originally Posted by LeslieH

Super! Angel - the co-author of nudi books for the Caribbean & Indo-Pacific - will put it to good use. Thanks!

Are your rocks & critters most Indo-Pacific?

[wenwillwego]

+1 stomie, Tristen. Pretty color, too!

[Tristen]

It's pretty creepy in a kinda awesome sort of way, lol

[duyvo1124]

Hi, I just set up my first saltwater tank and bought few piece of live rock from a LFS I found a worm (about 2-3 inches? ) and some kind of pod? Are these safe or I have to remove/ kill them? If I have to remove/kill them, then how can I do it?


Thanks a lot !!!

[Sekunda]

I got my first combo coral rock 1 week ago, everything has been going great. Then today I spotted these freaky looking dudes on my coral rock. They look like some kind of nudibranch but I can't ID them. Please help and let me know if I need to get them out of my tank. It looks like there may be a few very tiny ones as well. The zoas have not opened fully for a few days either...

They are the frilly looking brown creepy dudes in the pics.
Dead center in this one:
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Center of this one too:
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Here is a wide shot to show their size, they are on the far left center, and far right center just left of the Xenia:
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[SushiGirl]

duyvo, they're probably fine, but hard to tell without a pic or better description.
Sekunda, I would dip that rock ASAP & keep an eye out. Nudis on corals are rarely a good thing.

[duyvo1124]

Hi, I just set up my first saltwater tank and bought few piece of live rock from a LFS I found a worm (about 2-3 inches? ) and some kind of pod? Are these safe or I have to remove/ kill them? If I have to remove/kill them, then how can I do it?







Worm video:

http://s1138.beta.photobucket.com/us...e565d.mp4.html

Pod? video:

http://s1138.beta.photobucket.com/us...4ce20.mp4.html

http://s1138.beta.photobucket.com/us...4ce20.mp4.html





Photobucket album link (just in case):
http://s1138.beta.photobucket.com/us...o1124/library/

Thanks a lot !!!

[Sekunda]

Originally Posted by SushiGirl

Sekunda, I would dip that rock ASAP & keep an eye out. Nudis on corals are rarely a good thing.

Thanks SushiGirl. I will get some Coral Rx first thing tomorrow... I got some tweezers and pulled out the ones I could find. I will be more careful from now on... Thanks for the great thread as well, I know you spend a huge amount of time on here answering everyones questions.

[Sekunda]

Apparently those are Zoanthid Eating Nudibranchs, I found them on the Coral RX page. Yay... my first corals... my first coral eaters. Oh... pickles.

[SushiGirl]

Duyvo, sandard bristleworm & a sand skater, both are fine!
Happens to the best of us, Sekunda!

[duyvo1124]

Originally Posted by SushiGirl

Duyvo, sandard bristleworm & a sand skater, both are fine!
Happens to the best of us, Sekunda!

Alright, Thank you. Was about to try to catch that worm LOL.

[SushiGirl]

No problem. Obviously I meant "standard" not "sandard"...darn phone keyboard!

[Rognin]

What's this white looking sponge/cucumber?



And it's starting to make babies


Also pretty sure this is aiptasia. It seemed on the verge of dying a week ago and now seems to be doing really well...


Thanks for the help!

[GeorgeMonnatJr]

First:

Scypha/Sycon/”Pineapple” Sponges



Last: majano anemone?

[Rognin]

So not aiptasia but majano. Is that good or bad?

[SushiGirl]

It's aiptasia. I tried to answer last night, but the site went down in the middle of my post LOL.

[jek]

Hi all, I've been creeping for awhile now... haven't posted much in the past, just like to do some light reading every once and awhile... "reading" a common thing relating to this hobby.

Anyway the short end of it is... I have had a Nano JBJ 28CF up and running for about 2 years now. I started with all dry/base rock, recently i acquired a new clean up crew, not gonna mention "where from tho"... about a week after introducing them, I found a "MAJANO" can someone give me a positive ID, when give me a good remedy to get rid of it.

Thanks in advance.

-Jek-

[Pix5c]

I only see them at night?

[wenwillwego]

Pix5c- Most likely harmless pods or "reef bugs."
Tons of pictures here to help id them- http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchpods.html

[Jendita]

I'm new to all of this; put in my cured live rock today and noticed these "tentacles" a little while later. There are a few dotted around the tank, one of them has a stalk to it.

Is it the dreaded Aiptasia?

[SushiGirl]

Sure looks like it. Sorry!

[chizleFX]

iv started a local tank with local sand and local fish n other organisms. been fine for 6 months or so. noticing now what looks like 2 worm castings, one attached to a rock about a half inch wide n 3 inches long
the other keeps building a mound that i knocked down a few times.
there are long, thin, white tentacles about 3 inches long and, like, one sixty-fourth of an inch thick that spread out and slowly retract collecting soil to build its "hill/casting".
any idea what im lookin at?