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[Gumby]

hey all,

last night, i went to check on my tank at 3am (put in a new overflow and was worried water would be on my carpet) and i saw something realy odd in my tank.


it looked like a brown/orange zoo, but moved quickly under a rock it rotated in a counter clockwise motion as it was darting under the rock as soon as i turned on the lights.


any ideas?

 

[EdgeKrusher]

No Clue, but I'm going to tag along to see what's found.

EK

 

[wooddood]

sounds weird, im taggin too.

 

[Gumby]

i'm going to try to get a picture tonight. i can't make any promises though, they (there were 2 of them) are real quick.

 

[ScottT1980]

Sounds like something out of Aliens...Are you sure it wasn't just a small feather duster or an anemone?

Did the thing actually swim/crawl or was it stationary? It sounds crazy to me, I can't wait for a picture...

Perhaps these things are responsible for the pod depletion (I say it in jest but hey, you never know)...

Take er easy
Scott T.

 

[Gumby]

it crawled (at least that's what it looked like through 3am blurry eyes) in a counter clockwise motion back under the rock.

 

[ReefLady]

My first thought without a pic would be a medusa worm that was actually inside the rock, sticking out that ugly old mouth.

Without a picture, this is just a wild guess.

Travis

 

[ScottT1980]

Originally posted by Travis
My first thought without a pic would be a medusa worm that was actually inside the rock, sticking out that ugly old mouth.

Without a picture, this is just a wild guess.

Travis

Thats kind of what I am thinking, or a peanut worm (although they don't look all that much like a polyp)...

Crazy, hopefully you can snap a picture...

 

[Dennis7]

Same here on a worm, but hard to say without a picture.

 

[Gumby]

sorry all, i had some other issue come up so the picture is on the back burner until this weekend.

 

[NaH2O]

Originally posted by Travis
My first thought without a pic would be a medusa worm that was actually inside the rock, sticking out that ugly old mouth.

Without a picture, this is just a wild guess.

Travis

I thought this, too. I'll try and find a link to one and you can compare it to what you saw. I thought RL had a pic of one somewhere? RL?

 

[ReefLady]

Medusa worm? Not offhand, though I'm sure I can dig one up.

 

[ReefLady]

Here are a couple pics of Synapta sp. (Medusa worms) from reefimages.com:

http://www.reefimages.com/cgi-reefimages/page.cgi?list=Seastars&slide=91.jpg

http://www.reefimages.com/cgi-reefimages/page.cgi?list=Seastars&slide=92.jpg

http://www.reefimages.com/cgi-reefimages/page.cgi?list=Seastars&slide=94.jpg

Sorry, you can't link directly to the pics.

Medusas are usually pretty large though, I'm not 100% sure this is what it might be.

HTH,

 

[Gumby]

update on this thing. i know what rock it is under or in, i just haven't seen it since that night.

little does it know.......i am a very paitent man and i can wait until it shows itself again.