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Post subject: can anyone ID this strange critter on my liverock??  Posted: Jul 04, 2006 - 10:17 PM |
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| i have a small colony of these worms .they have these iridescent hairs {that shimmer blue ,green ,red and purple depending on the angle the light hits them} sticking out of a hole with two tentacles in the center at times. I believe that the tentacles are used to spread a virtually invisible mucus or web on and in between these hairs. the hairs are usually spread out a little more sort of funnel shaped. after cleaning the tank or if sediment gets kicked up at all you can see the web because everything sticks to it. then the tentacles are used to draw in all the food collected on this web. can anyone id these? |
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| Post subject: RE: can anyone ID this strange critter on my liverock?? Posted: Jul 05, 2006 - 08:12 AM |
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| cool lookin! |
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| Post subject: RE: can anyone ID this strange critter on my liverock?? Posted: Jul 05, 2006 - 06:01 PM |
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| That is definitely cool! |
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kingfish62
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| Post subject: RE: can anyone ID this strange critter on my liverock?? Posted: Jul 05, 2006 - 07:32 PM |
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| yeah, they are cool ! but what the heck are they? |
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| Post subject: RE: can anyone ID this strange critter on my liverock?? Posted: Jul 05, 2006 - 08:40 PM |
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Possibly a Spaghetti worm of some kind,
Check out this article by Ron Shimek in RK, an intersting read. |
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kingfish62
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| Post subject: RE: can anyone ID this strange critter on my liverock?? Posted: Jul 06, 2006 - 08:23 AM |
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| definiety not a spaghetti worm but i do have some! |
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Royal Gramma
tomato clown
Foxface
Yellow tailed damsel
coral banded shrimp
14g Biocube reef w/ assorted corals
yellow watchman goby
2 perc. clown
pepp. shrimp
2 emarald crabs
blue hermit crabs
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| Post subject: RE: can anyone ID this strange critter on my liverock?? Posted: Jul 06, 2006 - 05:56 PM |
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| The transclucent irridescence reminds me of a ctenaphores (comb jellyfish), which there are some benthic species. It also could possibly be a phoronid (featherless duster worm), but I haven't seen any with that irridescent look to them. |
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kingfish62
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| Post subject: Posted: Jul 13, 2006 - 06:16 AM |
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well jack-o identified this worm for me, they are flabelligerid polychaete worm. here is a pic from the internet! thanks jack-o ,good job
i always wondered what the rest of the worm looked like! the exposed part is a lot prettier than the uexposed part. |
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watching my fish is the only thing that keeps me sane!
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http://aquaria.info/modules.php?set_alb ... _album.php
55g FOWLR
Royal Gramma
tomato clown
Foxface
Yellow tailed damsel
coral banded shrimp
14g Biocube reef w/ assorted corals
yellow watchman goby
2 perc. clown
pepp. shrimp
2 emarald crabs
blue hermit crabs
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