A Night out on the Reef
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Topic: A Night out on the Reef
Posted By: Kevin
Subject: A Night out on the Reef
Date Posted: November 14 2003 at 6:49am
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Well, last night was a very interesting night for my reef tank. I was up late doing homework and then around 12:30 I went to add bionic to my tank before I went to bed. Of coarse if I am going to be near my tank then I better get a flash light and do some looking into my tanks night life.
The first cool thing I saw was a slug thing that I had seen about 2 weeks back. I have no clue what it is. It looks exactly like a big brown slug and seems to have an internal shell. So that was cool. As I was prusing farther I noticed one of my nasurus snails acting really weird. He was on the top of a rock standing as high as he could in the air. Then I noticed the other nasurus snail really close and when they becaue too close the one would raise up so only the back of his foot was on the ground and he would swing back and forth. I don't know exactly what was going on but it sure was funny. As I was watching my nasurus snails go crazy I suddenly noticed this worm just come wiggling across my live rock. It was probably 4 inches long and maybe a centemeter wide at its widest point. Just a long, flat, yellowish/tannish worm crawling across the top of my live rock. So, I thought it was a very interesting night and that I would share. If anyone has any idea what the worm or the slug are let me know. Anyone else see anything cool on there reef recently? |
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Posted By: mdawson8931
Date Posted: November 14 2003 at 8:22am
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Does the 'slug' your talking about have a flat shell? If so then I'd say its probably a Stomatella snail. I have hundreds of them in my tank, I'm not sure where they came from thoughbut they are everywhere in my tank. I've just recently notices worms in my tank also. I have alot of those also and they are rather large. ------------- Mike Layton, Ut. |
Posted By: Kevin
Date Posted: November 14 2003 at 8:42am
The slug doesn't have an outer shell. It is a dark muddy brown and looks like a slug (has a form of a shell but it is completly covered by skin or what ever you call it). The part that looks like a shell doesn't look flat but rounded over the slug body, much like a slug. Hmm, maybe I just had a garden slug crawl into my tank. 
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Posted By: mdawson8931
Date Posted: November 14 2003 at 12:23pm
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Possible, I had a spider cruzin my sandbed of my refugium. ------------- Mike Layton, Ut. |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: November 15 2003 at 9:54pm
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Those slugs are very common these days. They just showed up a few years ago and now they are almost everywhere. I call them slugs too! Great algae eaters. Largest one I've seen was an inch long. Anyone longer?
The Nassarius were probably mating. That's more likely than fighting. You know... make love not war 
Most worms, including Bristleworms, are very good for the tank. They eat detritus and dead animals, usually overnight! 
If you find a rare one eating coral it's easy to catch. Get some bridal veil material from the fabric store. Wrap up a piece of frozen brine shrimp, freeze dried shrimp or raw shrimp in several loose layers of bridal veil tied with fishing line that is long enough to extend out of the aquarium. Watch the bristleworm go into the material to get the food and pull it out of the tank. It will scrunch up and be caught in the material. The bristles are really irritating so don't handle the worm. Hope this helps ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member 
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