Sea Squirts

[maffu]

Hi all... basic question... purchased some mushrooms on a rock which came with sea squirts I was later to discover....

Any hints on specialist care they may or may not need? or just leave them to get on with it!

Thanks

Matt

 

[Gina]

We have one roaming around on our rock and do nothing out of the ordinary for it.

 

[Crakeur]

Some squirts are light averse, some have very short life spans.

I have a pair of squirts like the ones pictured here:

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=23&pCatId=1150

I got mine for far less than that ridiculous price and the squirt is happy in a shaded area.

 

[maffu]

hmmm interesting call... my 'sea squirt' is far from being as exotic as that.... its the blackish blue round thing!

or is it now a sea squirt?!

 

[Crakeur]

that actually looks like one of your shrooms closing in on a piece of food.

 

[Boomer]

Matt

Any hints on specialist care they may or may not need? or just leave them to get on with it!

Not really, unless you want to target feed it. They are filter feeders

Gina

We have one roaming around on our rock

That would be a first They are sessile

 

[maffu]

Dont think it is a shroom... its too 'solid' as it were...

thanks Boomer.... I will squirt it with some brine shrimp or something everynow and again.... see what happens.

Cheers guys

Matt

 

[Boomer]

Matt

It is hard to really tell if this is a squirt or not from the pic. There are squirts that look like this. If it is indeed a squirt look for two openings. Here are somemore pics to go by.

http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/ascidiacea.html

http://www.marinbi.com/ascidiacea/

Something like this