Des Moines area Posts/Points: 49/81
 | | 11/16/2008 10:29 AM |
| On one of the great colored zoa frags, should say rock, there seems to be a feather duster or something similar, about 3 inchs long tube but don't see much in the way of rays.Just a few tiny thin waving things.Anyway..this morning all the new corals are awake and open, then this thing spits out two seperate clouds of little singular things that are tiny.They went all over the tank. any ideas anyone? is this iten breeding or pooping??LOLThe little tiny objects came out spaced evenly apart.I have had a brain coral like frag for a while do the same thing.
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Riverside Posts/Points: 690/1338
| | 11/16/2008 11:46 AM |
| Sounds like a spaghetti worm tube or perhaps a small feather duster, but probably a worm. They are beneficial scavangers that have 2 thin sweepers that come out of the tube and feel around for food. That would be my guess anyway. | |  | |
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Posts/Points: 180/236
| | 11/16/2008 12:08 PM |
| Or its an aiptasia... which you should kill asap. | | | |
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Riverside Posts/Points: 690/1338
| | 11/16/2008 12:46 PM |
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Posted By h2so4hurts on 11/16/2008 10:08 AM
Or its an aiptasia... which you should kill asap. aiptasia don't have tubes........probably not that | | | |
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Posts/Points: 180/236
| | 11/16/2008 01:33 PM |
| Aiptasia most certainly have tubes.  Link | | | |
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Des Moines area Posts/Points: 49/81
| | 11/16/2008 02:15 PM |
| H2SO EEEK! kill that thing!! LOL Not an aiptasia, the tube is not that color, more opague. Must be a worm, still only has two little feelers showing, by an aiptasia would have opened up and this would have been a BIIIIG one. :-)
I went on a rampage today and killed all the new aiptasia I could find, as soon as I see any out they go(to the next realm!!) seems like no matter where corals come from these buggers are hiding out.So I patrol regularly! :-)
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Riverside Posts/Points: 690/1338
| | 11/16/2008 03:35 PM |
| It could be a type of stationary snail that makes a hard tube. They have 2 small, short "antenna" for lack of the real term and they send out a sticky, clear "string" It then reels in whatever it catches on the sticky stuff and consumes it. Some people have a problem with them in their tanks, mostly because they become too abundant, but I've had one or two and they didn't harm anything in my tank. I suppose the sticky string could irritate a nearby coral....... if it is that, just having a nice clean tank will keep it from mutiplying. | | | |
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Riverside Posts/Points: 690/1338
| | 11/16/2008 03:38 PM |
| Does it look like THIS ? A lot of people think it's a worm, but they are immobile snails..... | | | |
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Des Moines area Posts/Points: 49/81
| | 11/16/2008 03:47 PM |
| Fawn,
thats what it is! It did send a string out and reeled it back in, then shot two batches of the little whatyamakalits! LOL
Yea! now we know what it is. I will keep an eye on it, if it looks like it will get out of hand out it will go.
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Posts/Points: 486/880
| | 11/16/2008 04:54 PM |
| An interesting animal but some people find them unsightly or find that they irritate the coral they are near.
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Des Moines area Posts/Points: 49/81
| | 11/16/2008 08:24 PM |
| Not as interesting as the other things in the tank..but hey diversity works. :-) | | | kyle c. | |
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