Something a little different (maybe)

[aesop]

Freak accident with a powerhead ended this guys life (Makes me want to remove all my powerheads)

[aesop]

Just appeared on this rock after 3yrs; I think its a survivor from my ricordias which I had before. But it also looks like an anenome?

[aesop]

just a snail...

[aesop]

The back of one of my rocks, surprising what you find in the take when you take it apart.

[psiico]

Okay, call me stupid, but what is that in the first pic? Some sort of nudibranch?

[Chrismo]

You have a nice collection of oddities. what kinda snail is that?!

The little anemone looking thing might be a Pseudocorynactis. They pop up in my tank now and then too. They seem to prefer dark and retract in the light. Mine will eat just abut anything.


Chris

[Mckitrick]

I think I've got some of those Pseudocorynactis in my tank as well! I had a single one for the longest time and now there are three (including the first) but they're all really tiny.

Are they bad in any way?

[aesop]

The first pic is a nudibranch; supposedly it eats algae but I couldn't verify that since after 2days I found the intake to my Hagen. Wasn't a pretty sight. The whole head was in the intake. when I pulled it out (the 2nd half of the body) it felt like that yellow banana shaped candy I used to eat. :) - no I didn't try it

The Snail is a "scutus", a very nice addiction, it eats algae also.
http://www.seaslugforum.net/scutus.htm

[aesop]

Mini stars??

[slylie]

thats aweshum... how old was that tank?

[Fish Tank]

Originally posted by aesop
Freak accident with a powerhead ended this guys life (Makes me want to remove all my powerheads)

YUCK! Same thing happened to me with a Spanish Dancer I had - same family (nudibranch). Woke up one morning and the water was red. Painful (and cruel) mistake. I put in floss after that. It's loose enough to allow flow, but tight enough to prevent "accidents"

[Mckitrick]

Aesop - Well the hair algae sucks but those look like baby serpent stars!

[aquanut40]

Hello


First pic sea slug (nudibranch) hard to tell a genus they are many. Most don't do well in aquaria (starve to death) or as you mention they get involved in pumps way to often.

Seacond pic.. like mentioned appears to be a Pseudocorynactis. They do look alot like Anemone. Some are very sensitive to light other's are no so sensitive.

Third pic This appears to be a Limpet genus Scutus they are mainly Herbivorous but also can feed on coral tissue.

Stan

[jtremblay]

I have some sponges that look just like #4 -- very freaky looking, especially the ones poking out from a palythoa polyp colony. When they get big, I just syphon out a stalk or two and call it "nutrient export".

Some time, I'd love to get some of the tiny stars. If'n I'm not mistaken, they're great detritus eaters. I'd even trade some asterinid stars I have that seem to eat hair algae (albeit very slowly).

Jason

[aesop]

The pic of the serpent stars are from my 65g which I keep telling myself that I will tear down; but never get the time to.
The tank doesn't have any filtration other then the clump of algae which I threw in there a few months ago. 1 powerhead and 1+year old PC's on top of it. The only resident is a cardinal, and a serpent star.

Paul_BB_Guy: I don't mind the hair algae (so thats what they look like) since my tangs and snails do a very good job of eating any plant life that happens to sprout up.

It's amazing what you'll find if there are no predators. I thought I had killed off all my flatworms, but in the 65g tank there are plenty now (been quite a while since I nuked the tank with green-ex). I think my wrasse is keeping them under control in my main tank since ocassionaly I'll see a tiny one on the glass.

[psiico]

Do those tiny stars burrow in the substrate at all or just crawl around the glass and surfaces? And would you be willing to part with a half dozen or so?

[aesop]

I think the tiny stars are really baby serpent stars to be honest. they move and act like the adult versions. So they will go into cracks and creves' when its bright out (not in the 65g since there are no predators).

Yes I could part with some just give me a pm.

[psiico]

I saw on Garf's website some product called Grunge with little stars in the substrate. I was hoping they were somethinhg like that. The Grunge looked like large pebbles though, not sugar sized sand so they probably wouldn't burrow in the sand anyway.

[aesop]

My sandbed is pretty packed at the surface so I can't really tell if they purposely dig into the substrate like the ones in garf. But I do see some arms sticking out of the sandbed in odd areas. But most of them are on the glass and the algae.

This stuff??
http://www.garf.org/GRUNGEPLUS1/STRS600458.jpg

[psiico]

That's the one!