Hi folks, I have had the most awesome couple of days watching my reef tank. Yesterday, my Coral Banded Shrimp (Bandit) molted for the first time since I've had him (about 2 1/2 months). Now this evening I've discovered a new creature and I have no idea what it is. I hope you can help identify it by my description because I can't get a picture of it. It has a pinkish tube (body) that is attached to the rock. It's about the size of a dime, and looks like a circle of eyelashes about 3/8 of an inch long. The center is translucent and the tips are white. Kinda looks like the "feather" part of a feather duster. It also pops in and out like a feather duster does when it's spooked. It just appeared out of nowhere! Hope it's nothing bad 'cause it looks so cool. Any suggestions on what it could be?
Strange New Creature In My Tank!
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Waddi
Shenanigans?
Sounds like a vermetid snails too me. Google it.
Bifferwine
I am a girl
Google aiptasia and majano. It sounds like one of those to me, and both are bad guys -- pest anemones. :(
Waddi
Shenanigans?
Sure you cant get a picture?? Im really intrigued! Is it what Biff said?? You both posted at the same time!! :D
AmberSunrise
Reef enthusiast
Is it a barnacle? I just got a ton of them on my new rocks they are cool
look like this ?
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbUc4u-veZE[/ame]
look like this ?
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbUc4u-veZE[/ame]
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From the pictures I've found of the aiptasia and majano it doesn't look like that's what it is. It looks more like the barnacles AmberSunrise posted but it doesn't pop in and out constantly like those. It opens and stays open for awhile then when it closes it pops in quickly. All the "eyelashes' are connected to the base and don't wave around individually. I'll try to get a picture but since it's translucent except for the tips I haven't been able to get one. It just doesn't show up well enough to see it.
Waddi
Shenanigans?
Hmm maybe a Scallop??
Bifferwine
I am a girl
No, the Aiptasia X will harm whatever it is directly applied to. But it's really easy to aim and get it where you want, so you apply it only to the aiptasia.
Bifferwine
I am a girl
You dose in the tank. The Aiptasia X is pretty thick stuff. It comes with an application syringe, and you just squirt the aiptasia.
I found this video on youtube:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo3DZYdAD2Y"]YouTube - Red Sea Aiptasia-X[/ame]
I've been dealing with these guys almost every other week because of a rock that came in with them. But, it's not to bad with this stuff.
I hit a mushroom that was sitting below an aiptasia and it didn't much like it, it almost had a steam rising from the spot it hit and shrivelled up. But, a few days later it was just fine.
Also hit a polyp it took a couple of weeks but it came back as well. I think I could have killed them had I introduced to much. But, I think because it was a fairly small amount they were fine. Just be careful around the things you do want to keep. :D
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo3DZYdAD2Y"]YouTube - Red Sea Aiptasia-X[/ame]
I've been dealing with these guys almost every other week because of a rock that came in with them. But, it's not to bad with this stuff.
I hit a mushroom that was sitting below an aiptasia and it didn't much like it, it almost had a steam rising from the spot it hit and shrivelled up. But, a few days later it was just fine.
Also hit a polyp it took a couple of weeks but it came back as well. I think I could have killed them had I introduced to much. But, I think because it was a fairly small amount they were fine. Just be careful around the things you do want to keep. :D
Smitty
Reef pro
Sounds like a ball anemone...look it up and see if it resembles that.
Bifferwine
I am a girl
Other methods (boiling water, lemon juice, vinegar) did not do anything against my pest anemones, although some people say the methods have worked for them.
ErinCahir
Sausage Wrangler
I tried both boiling water and lemon juice, and they didn't do anything to mine, either.
Waddi
Shenanigans?
My lemon juice worked..... just saying.
But that was only because i bathed the area (it was in a crevice), i basically filled up the basin in the rock where it was, and the deed was done. But i also took it out the water.
I would suggest chemical.
But that was only because i bathed the area (it was in a crevice), i basically filled up the basin in the rock where it was, and the deed was done. But i also took it out the water.
I would suggest chemical.
DAvis
Reefer Madness
If it is convenient (and it almost never is!), you could remove the rock w/Aptasia to a smaller vessel with tank water and light overhead. dose it there, and return to the tank after the allotted time. THis way you don't have to worry about turning off all your pumps and worry about the chemical getting off target. I've done this for another problem, the dreaded red turf algae...
