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AvesSaltGuy
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Topic: Hole punched in my acan colony Posted: September 08 2010 at 5:33pm |
I have this great colony and just noticed that it has a hole (new) in it. Looks like something just took a small drill bit to it.
Any ideas? The colony is happy and healthy overall...
I have tangs, a blue jaw trigger, clowns, some wrasses...
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Michael
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Posted: September 08 2010 at 5:46pm |
Most of all the acan colonies I used to get and frag had some type of "bug" in them they have a shell that looks like a pistasio sp? Shell and when you remove them they leave a perfect round hole. It could be that maybe one of your fish picked it out of the acan. Is the hole all the way down in the skeleton? If so I am betting that is what it was
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Posted: September 08 2010 at 6:06pm |
I had this pop out of an Acan and it left a perfectly round hold too! Its pretty creepy looking!!!
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Posted: September 08 2010 at 6:09pm |
What is that? It is creepy looking!
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Posted: September 08 2010 at 6:14pm |
bugzme wrote:
What is that? It is creepy looking! |
I have no idea! As creepy as it is I figured it couldn't be good, plus it was living in a hole in my Acan so it just had to go!
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Posted: September 08 2010 at 10:00pm |
It looks like what would happen if an owl had sex with a ant who had sex with a crab.
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Posted: September 08 2010 at 10:25pm |
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Posted: September 08 2010 at 11:47pm |
that thing was in a tank? wow im just amazed of how many organism live in small ecosystem obviously its not a good thing to keep predators in small enviroment
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Posted: September 09 2010 at 10:30am |
Looks like the larvae of a crab. If it were me, I'd leave it in. Bad crabs can be easily removed when they start causing trouble, but if it was an Emerald or other kind of beneficial Crab, it would be fascinating to watch it grow.
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