Any ideas what this is?
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Topic: Any ideas what this is?
Posted By: znoob
Subject: Any ideas what this is?
Date Posted: August 30 2012 at 5:08pm
I was blowing debris out of uncured LR with a turkey baster when this strange thing blew out from a hole. At first I thought it was an egg but the tentacle on the end moves and tries to attach to stuff. There is also something constantly moving around inside the body that you can see through the some what transparent skin. It is about half an inch long. Reminds me of something from the Alien movie.   " rel="nofollow - |
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Posted By: tfmreefs
Date Posted: August 30 2012 at 6:15pm
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If its that tiny pinkinsh whitish thing, i think its an anemone like aptasia that got blown around and ist trying to attach itself to something. All the tentacles are probably sucked in and covered up. ------------- "The early bird might get the worm, but only the second mouse gets the cheese." |
Posted By: znoob
Date Posted: August 30 2012 at 6:21pm
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It is constantly moving around like a grub with a white tentacle at the end. It is bizarre. |
Posted By: znoob
Date Posted: August 30 2012 at 6:35pm
| I have it in a clear fish container inside my tank. So we'll see if it morphs into something. |
Posted By: rambof07
Date Posted: November 19 2012 at 11:16pm
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I think it is a thin fish. I have never seen it before. It is looking interesting and good.
------------- Rambo Finch |
Posted By: wickedsnowman
Date Posted: November 19 2012 at 11:36pm
| Idk I have been in the hobby for while now and I have never seen or heard of anything like that. Very strange... Probably some type of worm. |
Posted By: Dionysus
Date Posted: November 19 2012 at 11:52pm
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Every time I see a thread like this it amazes me how much life is in our tanks.
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Posted By: aquablue
Date Posted: November 20 2012 at 12:30am
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Kind of sounds like like a type of peanut worm since you said it was crawling along with a single appendage, they can look pretty bizarre and scrunch their main body up quite a bit so that might be a possibility, I've had a few as hitchhikers. ------------- 12G Nano Cube | DIY LED Member of GCFB |
Posted By: ReefdUp
Date Posted: November 20 2012 at 5:02am
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I had something very similar years ago. It looked like a baby of something. I never figured out what it was. ------------- www.reefdup.com Diving since 2009, reefkeeping since 2007, & fishkeeping since 1987 200g, 75g, & 15g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water |
Posted By: phys
Date Posted: December 01 2012 at 12:33pm
| looks like a sponge... Is it squishy? Does it have transparent tubes coming out of it sometimes? |
Posted By: Ershaddy
Date Posted: December 22 2012 at 12:06am
| Yeah i'm also thinking is it a thin fish. |