What's this corncob-looking thing?

cranberry

cranberry

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Originally Posted by saltn00b
http:///forum/post/2820560
it looks like it's from EARTH?!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Originally Posted by scrombus2
http:///forum/post/2821329
Terrestrial= from earth, land. As opposed to aquatic= from water, from the sea.
Oh, I missed this. Yes, you are right scrombus.... it wasn't a typo. It reminds me of a land type seedling that is not suppose to be in the water... but something that just found it's way there.
The "hole" changed my mind.
 
mx#28

mx#28

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Originally Posted by SueAndHerZoo
http:///forum/post/2813213
It came attached to a piece of live rock. I'm pretty sure it's dead, but any idea what it was? It's about 3 inches long.
Sue
It looks like an oyster. Is there a place where you can see a mantle opening? It might be a big zig-zag shape like "///".
 
sueandherzoo

sueandherzoo

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Originally Posted by MX#28
http:///forum/post/2821462
It looks like an oyster. Is there a place where you can see a mantle opening? It might be a big zig-zag shape like "///".
No, not an oyster, but a good guess. I do have an oyster with that jagged mantle opening elsewhere, but this thing is actually shaped like a corn cob....long and narrow.
 
novahobbies

novahobbies

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Originally Posted by SueAndHerZoo
http:///forum/post/2820834
I sure hope this isn't the proverbial "probe" we always hear about in alien abductions!

Remember the egg capsules the facehuggers came out of from the movie "Alien?" Looks kinda like that, eh?
 
sueandherzoo

sueandherzoo

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Today I get the feeling that this "thing" is alive so it's become more urgent for me to find out what it is so I will know what to do for it, if anything. The reason I now think it's alive is because it changed..... when I got up this morning and turned on the aquarium lights, it was very shriveled/skinny looking, where as before it looked full and plump. I don't know if it's starving to death or if it plumps up once the lights are on but it has definitely changed. If it's a living thing that I need to care for, I better figure it out fast. There's not that much info out there on sea squirts and tunicates, at least not in my searches yet.
Sue
 
bang guy

bang guy

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A sea Squirt that size will eat a lot of food. Foods are typically bacteria, cilliates, and other types of small plankton they can filter out of the water.
Just my opinion, but if you attempt to provide enough food to keep it alive long term you may degrade your water quality.
 
sueandherzoo

sueandherzoo

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Two changes to this "alien pod" since this morning: It's now plumped up again (no longer shriveled and sunken) and there is a bunch of brown "stuff" around it's side opening (second photo). This brown stuff was NOT there yesterday and I don't know if it's stuff going IN or stuff coming OUT. Also, while staring at the tank I noticed what is probably another one, but much smaller. The original one in question is about 4 inches long, but the other one I just found (third photo) is 1" to 2" inches. And behind the smaller one is another strange looking thing, and it DOES look like it has two spouts, but doesn't look like the other alien pods. (insert Twilight Zone music here).
Sue



 
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