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Old 08-24-2007, 01:41 PM
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Attached is a photo of a new creature just discovered on my LR. As a little background, the LR cames "fresh" from Fiji, and has been cycling for 21 days. I added snails and hermit crabs last week and they on flourishing on green algae. I spotted a few of these things on one section of the LR down near or on the sand bed.
At first we thought it was an aiptasia, but now not so sure...

Name that creature?!

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tiny feather duster. not a bad thing at all.
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tiny feather duster. not a bad thing at all.
aiptasia bad; feather duster good...i have a little colony of them (a half dozen or so spotted so far)

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keep an eye out though, the one aiptasia I've had in my tank showed up on the same rock that came with 8-10 tiny featherdusters on it.

Don't worry about it, just keep your eyes open.
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Old 08-28-2007, 08:55 PM
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keep an eye out though, the one aiptasia I've had in my tank showed up on the same rock that came with 8-10 tiny featherdusters on it.

Don't worry about it, just keep your eyes open.
Thanks for the tip. I have now counted a dozen of these little guys scattered around on the LR. My thanks to Fiji for sharing...

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Yep, I got some Fiji LR 3 months ago, and it has around 25 feather dusters...some open up to the size of a nickel.
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Old 08-31-2007, 05:24 PM
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Yep, I got some Fiji LR 3 months ago, and it has around 25 feather dusters...some open up to the size of a nickel.
As a bonus, I've also found some small mollusks, a peanut worm, a couple of small polyps and some type of little crab that is hiding out in a hole in the LR. All I have seen of the crab so far is a tiny little claw reaching outside the hole for some nutrients off the rock... I can't identify him because his entire body is hidden inside the hole...

So far nothing bad in the house...

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