Cloudburst2000
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Okay, I bought a fully established system about 1 1/2 mths ago. The system had several corals and other inverts in it. No fish. I have yet to add any other livestock except for expanding the CUC. Anyhoo, I just moved my rocks around yesterday to change the rockwork, and something appeared out of the blue. It's not exactly a hitchhiker because it has apparently been in the tank since I got it, I just didn't know it. I'm assuming it was on the back of the rockwork where I could not see it. Yesterday, it floated to several pieces of rock before finally settling down on the same rock as my hammer coral.
Here is a brief description of the thing. It is round and flat and roughly the size of a quarter. It has alternating brown and whitish/green stripes radiating out from the mouth at the center. The thing is grooved with the brown thicker stripes being deeper and the thinner whitish/green stripes being raised higher. It has a foot that it attaches to the rock with. I fed it some mysis shrimp last night and it curled into a ball around the food. It seems mildly aggressive. The shrimp tried to steal it's food and it was having none of that. It would jerk and perhaps try to sting the shrimp every time the shrimp would try to get it's food. Also, since it chose that location on it's own, should I leave it alone or should I prod it to move again? Since it is obviously capable of relocating itself, would it move on it's own if the hammer coral was bothering it? I have posted a pic of the thing below. And this pic was taken right when the lights came on so the hammer coral hasn't yet expanded it's tentacles. It's tentacles do get very close to this thing when fully expanded.
Here is a brief description of the thing. It is round and flat and roughly the size of a quarter. It has alternating brown and whitish/green stripes radiating out from the mouth at the center. The thing is grooved with the brown thicker stripes being deeper and the thinner whitish/green stripes being raised higher. It has a foot that it attaches to the rock with. I fed it some mysis shrimp last night and it curled into a ball around the food. It seems mildly aggressive. The shrimp tried to steal it's food and it was having none of that. It would jerk and perhaps try to sting the shrimp every time the shrimp would try to get it's food. Also, since it chose that location on it's own, should I leave it alone or should I prod it to move again? Since it is obviously capable of relocating itself, would it move on it's own if the hammer coral was bothering it? I have posted a pic of the thing below. And this pic was taken right when the lights came on so the hammer coral hasn't yet expanded it's tentacles. It's tentacles do get very close to this thing when fully expanded.