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01-29-2005, 08:41 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Corvallis, OR
Posts: 82
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id help please...
Is this little hitchhiker a cucumber? just showed up recently...
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01-29-2005, 08:43 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Corvallis, OR
Posts: 82
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it's soft and sways around, about 1/2" long
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01-29-2005, 09:01 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: seattle
Posts: 191
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could be a type of sponge
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01-29-2005, 10:54 PM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 1,613
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ohhh...
i've come across those occasionally too. I'm guessing some type of cesile worm. Shaun might be able to nail it. It looks like a tiny inflated bag? and retracts/contracts with stimulus?
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01-30-2005, 12:44 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Corvallis, OR
Posts: 82
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without disturbance, there is a an additional 1/2" of spongy material, like the tip of a pencil in shape, that is occasionally retracted back into the main body seen in the pic. I'm trying to get a pic of it extended...I'll see what I can come up with.
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01-30-2005, 12:57 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Corvallis, OR
Posts: 82
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extension
this is the best i've got so far showing the extended portion.
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01-30-2005, 02:45 PM
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Destroyer of Worlds
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 251
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Wow, it's kinda cool lookin'. Hope it's good to have. I think you should call it a Sea Chestnut, since it has those spiny things all over. Or Sea Hedgehog. Or something more appropriate. :-D
Mike
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01-30-2005, 03:39 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Corvallis, OR
Posts: 82
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its really soft looking, and it's attached to the lr at its base, i hope its ok to have in the tank too (I have enough nuisance stuff that i'm learning how to control already). I love the fact that I'm still finding new critters popping up on the lr several months after I started the tank. my Nitrogen parameters finally leveled to 0's, so maybe I'll start seeing some of the more sensitive stuff that wasn't so obvious, or comfortable, before
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01-30-2005, 10:03 PM
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Destroyer of Worlds
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 251
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I love finding critters I didn't know I had. A couple months ago I discovered some little worms on one of my rocks. I was told they're called hydra worms. They're about 2.5" long and grey with black stripes every 1/8" or so. Neat little things, and they don't seem to be irritating anything they touch. I've also counted 7 bivalves embedded in a Fiji zoanthid rock I got last summer. Fun stuff to find.
Mike
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01-31-2005, 01:17 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Corvallis, OR
Posts: 82
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i haven't found any bivalves on my rock, thats really cool. I thought I'd see more obvious hitchhikers than I did on my lr, though I probably just don't realize everything thats actually there. I guess I was fantasizing about some of the interesting macroflora/fauna that you always hear of others getting. other than this new thing posted here, the only big stuff I brought in on 100lbs of marshall island was a 7" bristle worm  and 11 button polyps  . |
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