In my 10 gal I have a Pistol and Goby combo, so when I hear these snapping sounds I always assumed it was the Pistol Shrimp. So today I was looking at my Zoas to check for Nudi's and I saw this thing reach down from inside of one of the Zoa colonies and snap at a Hermit crab. And this was followed by that snapping sound.

Since the Pistol was right there sifting some sand, I thought I might have a Mantis shrimp inside that colony and did a FW dip on it.

The zoa colony is submerged in fresh water, all kinds of crazy popping sounds started immediately(think high voltage electricity) and then I see this worm flopping about and I captured him with a turkey baster, but no sign of a Mantis.

Later when I looked into the rock after lights out, I see a small shrimp still moving around inside the zoas, so will have to try another method of forced evacuation.


So what in the world is this ugly MOFO(Sorry for pic quality)

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And this thing also, it's some sort of anemone.

Closed


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Opened

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looks like it is just a bristle worm.

It is a bristleworm, a clearer shot of the head will help identify as friend or foe.

I wish I had it guys. It's nasty and it hairy on both ends and it's surfing the turd down a dark tunnels now.

:)

your"anemone" looks an awful lot like a Tubastrea to me, altho i've never seen one that color...

Anemone looks to me like palythoa, I think the sand grains incorporated within its tissues gives it away, unless there are other similar inverts which do this as well.

Howdy guys.

I finally caught the snapper! It was a small pistol shrimp, now living in my friends tank.


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As for the anemone, I like the little guy, and he loves mysis shrimp when the cleaner cant take it away from him.

im thinking the worm is a Nereid of some kind. if so they may eat some pods, but they are mostly scavengers. (i think) :)