Anybody help to identify this creep?

[75reef]

This is on the mushroom rock. It does not look like any featherduster or hitchhiker anemone I have ever seen.

 

[75reef]

There is a light red halo around the object - it is directly in the center of the picture

 

[panmanmatt]

Does it retract at all? Kinda looks like a sponge to me but hard to tell from the pic.

 

[75reef]

yes, it does retract. It only has those jagged arms to it. Actually, what you see in the pic is all that is there.

 

[kathywithbirds]

Is it a barnacle? Are there, like, whiskery things that kinda catch the light?

 

[AQTCJAK]

can you get a closer pic?

 

[75reef]

I would say that catch the light... There is no tube, when it retracts, you cannot even tell where it came from - I guess it retracts right into the rock.

 

[75reef]

sorry, I would say that it doesn't catch the light

 

[AQTCJAK]

glass anenome?

 

[75reef]

here is a closer pic

 

[AQTCJAK]

appears to be some type of worm

 

[75reef]

yeah, I guess it would have to be.... of all the pictures and searching I have done on the net, I have never seen one like this.

 

[BigAl07]

I have that SAME thing in my tank here at home. It's on the back of a rock and only feeds now and again. It's got a number of Tree Branch like arms that extend out. Then one at a time it "rolls" one up and extends another. Just the other day a local reefer was asking me about a strange "critter" and he described the same thing. Mine has grown considerably since I first saw it and I have seen other much smaller ones scattered around my life rock.

Allen

 

[75reef]

thanks allen. At least I know I am not the only one that has one of these. Let me know if you ever figure out what it is!

 

[aquaman3680]

Looks like a peanut worm!

 

[caitrina]

I have them also,