Hitchhiker ID

zedx6

zedx6

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Hard to tell from the photo, check out the thread at the top of this forum on hitchhikers.
 
sin

sin

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Here's a better pic
1st pic: is from underneath where you see the legs better which look like sharp thorn
2nd pic: is a better pic from the top where you can see the legs.
When i poke it with something it puts up the sharp legs from the side as a defense :notsure:

 
sin

sin

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Originally Posted by Farmboy
Baby bristleworm?
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/show...54&postcount=1
Is this good or bad. By the way i am sorry that i am taking long to send you ur sand but i was out of town for thanksgiving holiday i just got back this morning and tryed to make it to the post office but got there late sorry. I will get it out this week.
 
fishieness

fishieness

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bristle worms can be good or bad. most of the time they are benificial scavengers and very few will harm fish, but they will eat clams.
however, i doubt it is a bristleworm. It appears to have an exoskeleton and it looks like legs go all the way around it. A bristleworm (or the most commonly referty to type, a fireworm) does have these characteristics.
it looks like some type of isopod.
 
farmboy

farmboy

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I had some that looked like this when first introduced to an acclimating container(bucket). They soon stretched out and resembled the pics more closely. THis is the stressed position, I think.
 
sin

sin

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fishieness said:
bristle worms can be good or bad. most of the time they are benificial scavengers and very few will harm fish, but they will eat clams.
however, i doubt it is a bristleworm. It appears to have an exoskeleton and it looks like legs go all the way around it. A bristleworm (or the most commonly referty to type, a fireworm) does have these characteristics.
it looks like some type of isopod.[
The legs don't go all the way around
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fishieness

fishieness

Active Member
Originally Posted by sin
The legs don't go all the way around
it looks kinda like they do
:notsure: ... oh well.... does it have an exoskeleton though?
 
sin

sin

Member
Originally Posted by fishieness
it looks kinda like they do
:notsure: ... oh well.... does it have an exoskeleton though?
UH!!!!!!!! :notsure:
 
krazyk

krazyk

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its some sort of nudibranch...
They lay white squiggly eggs...
they EAT anemones from the base...
I just removed 2 of those from my 37 gallon, they killed my pink tip anemone...
get em out !!!
 
sin

sin

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Originally Posted by KrazyK
its some sort of nudibranch...
They lay white squiggly eggs...
they EAT anemones from the base...
I just removed 2 of those from my 37 gallon, they killed my pink tip anemone...
get em out !!!
Are you sure. I am confused
 
sin

sin

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Do you have any other pics because it is hard to tell from that pic. The pic that i show it have's sharp thorn like legs that are white
 
krazyk

krazyk

Member
Originally Posted by sin
I think it is not the same thing mine don't look like a slug
need to see a more close up better picture....
 
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