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Hey everyone,
I was just looking around my tank for any new life that may have been in hiding since I set the cube up a week or so ago... Found this little guy. Sorry that the photo isn't better, maybe I should try a different lens next time... My only guess (and its just based on photos i've seen before elsewhere) would be that it's a baby featherduster... what's everyone else think? I'm sure they're fairly common as there were tubes all over my live rock... the first image here is just for a size reference (the thing is on the left side of the image), the second one is cropped (and enhanced) just to show the creature in question...   Last edited by redeclipse6049; 02-08-2010 at 11:33 PM.. Reason: added info |
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02-08-2010, 11:36 PM
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Looks like a feather duster without the worm inside it!
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02-08-2010, 11:37 PM
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I think that is pretty normal you will also see them all over ur rock, but not alway like that!
Then yes it's a feather duster like dusty said! Last edited by chefb_5; 02-08-2010 at 11:43 PM.. |
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well there's SOMETHING in there... it's the only one i've seen so far with little striped feathery looking things sticking out. I'll see if i can get a better picture... give me a few minutes
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02-08-2010, 11:43 PM
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not a whole lot better but...
 so is that a featherduster then? sorry for the messy images... I'm battling some water spots on the inside of the glass (still not entirely sure why those didn't dissolve after i added water...) , f/2.8, and not having a true macro lens... |
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02-08-2010, 11:44 PM
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Yup!
They're pretty.
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02-08-2010, 11:44 PM
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Checkmate baby!!!!!!
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Yep feather duster - nothing to worry about
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02-08-2010, 11:48 PM
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So ummmmm......yea
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i concur!
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02-08-2010, 11:48 PM
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Good filter feeders, not as cool looking as the larger ones, but definitely nothing bad.
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02-08-2010, 11:49 PM
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cool cool! I've seen quite a few of their tubes on the rock, but this one might be the only survivor... I'll have to keep looking though. I bought some live rock last week with a snail or crab of some sort on it,although I haven't seen it since then, so i'm not sure what happened to it..
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02-08-2010, 11:50 PM
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one last question. Do these ones get any bigger, or do they stay that size?
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02-08-2010, 11:51 PM
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they might get to quarter size or so, thats all the bigger mine have gotten
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02-09-2010, 11:00 AM
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I have two and they are the size of a golfball when fully extended. They are beautiful when open.
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02-09-2010, 05:31 PM
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These little ones usually stay pretty small and drab in color, unlike the cool looking feather duster/worms you can buy. I take these as another sign that your tank is matureing and water is good. after a whie you will see a ton of the little white tubes usual on the underside of things and in your overflow.
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02-09-2010, 06:23 PM
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alright everyone, thanks for playing! Up next, we have something I found growing on a dead (but very fresh looking) piece of coral rubble. Whatever could it be? Baby corals? Anenomes? something that will eventually devour everything in my tank? Oh the possibilities... My guess would be coral, but I don't know how common that is when buying live rock... size is about the same (a little bigger, maybe twice the diameter) as the last sea creature. First one to answer gets a free copepod!
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02-09-2010, 06:29 PM
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almost looks like galaxia coral just starting...
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02-09-2010, 06:31 PM
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alright, I'll ship your copepod out in the morning.
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02-09-2010, 06:32 PM
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So ummmmm......yea
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it looks like the start of a hammer coral head, i have 3 of them on one of my frags
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02-09-2010, 06:35 PM
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it'll be nice when i don't have to use a macro lens (found my 2x teleconverter, by the way, forgot I even had it) to take pictures of everything in my tank...
 what worries me now though, is that i'll end up killing these things (if they're coral) before they get a chance to grow any bigger. I haven't started testing my water for all the stuff corals need, and i'm not even sure if the initial cycling is done with yet... everything's happening so fast! |
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