gene4567 Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 Hello, I've just set up my first marine tank and added some live rock yesterday and so far have found some interesting things. Snails, a crab, a clam, what I think is a featherduster worm (to hard to get a photo of to have someone confirm) and another worm like thing that I'm not sure of. I spent a bit of time on Google looking at aiptasia an i don't think that's it but I could be wrong. If anyone can have a look a look and maybe identify if it's good or bad that would be great, it frightens easy and disappears quickly. I've seen it in 2 other spots of the live rock so far ( could be the same one or multiple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
african-cichlids Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 I'm saying Feather duster mate Good filter feeders! So short term BENEFICIAL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene4567 Posted August 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 3 minutes ago, african-cichlids said: I'm saying Feather duster mate Good filter feeders! So short term BENEFICIAL Yeah I thought it was a worm as well just looks a bit different from the other one in there. I found a bristle star today when I got home. That was a freak creature to remove. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
african-cichlids Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 you mean brittle star? Thay are good scavengers mate I'd leave them in your tank. As long as it's not the green ones which are known once decent size to take down fish. Google green brittle star Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
african-cichlids Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 Feather dusters come in heaps of different colours. If your board on a weekend take a trip to pet city at mt Gravatt and have a look at there Christmas tree rock. Covered in feather dusters with heaps of variations of colours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene4567 Posted August 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 8 hours ago, african-cichlids said: Feather dusters come in heaps of different colours. If your board on a weekend take a trip to pet city at mt Gravatt and have a look at there Christmas tree rock. Covered in feather dusters with heaps of variations of colours Well luckily I was already planning a sneaky trip to pet city on Friday. But yeah I will do. Might help me identify the one I already think is a feather duster. I've also got a crab in the live rock. He is tiny but from the looks of him he's not a gorilla crab, not 100% sure of that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingerbeer Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 Things that just appear are the best fun with live rock. ageofaquariums 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene4567 Posted August 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 2 hours ago, gingerbeer said: Things that just appear are the best fun with live rock. Yeah I've been glued to it everytime I get home from work. I like scaring the clam and the worm so the go back hiding and then watching them re appear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidg Posted August 24, 2016 Report Share Posted August 24, 2016 17 hours ago, gene4567 said: Hello, I've just set up my first marine tank and added some live rock yesterday and so far have found some interesting things. Snails, a crab, a clam, what I think is a featherduster worm (to hard to get a photo of to have someone confirm) and another worm like thing that I'm not sure of. I spent a bit of time on Google looking at aiptasia an i don't think that's it but I could be wrong. If anyone can have a look a look and maybe identify if it's good or bad that would be great, it frightens easy and disappears quickly. I've seen it in 2 other spots of the live rock so far ( could be the same one or multiple. Looks like a tubeworm to me and all tube worms bar the cocos multiply Asexually quite quickly. Many a time I have seen 40 to 60 from one tube worm, the most ever I have gotten is a mass of 92 from one rock off one tube worm, large masses of the soft tubed polychaeta is cool to see and quite common! There are fan worms, cocos, several types of calcium tubed worms including xmas tree worms, soft tubed worms which is possibly yours and so on, put something near it quickly, if it retracts quickly it is a tube worm if it bends to retract semi slowly, it is a feather sea star. I did up a long thread on these guys years back. These are few of mine up high of maybe 35 or so now and increasing, lol, the speckled ones are the fast breeders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidg Posted August 24, 2016 Report Share Posted August 24, 2016 These are cool of the calcium tube variations, though they get a bit out of hand if they are happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene4567 Posted August 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2016 16 hours ago, liquidg said: Looks like a tubeworm to me and all tube worms bar the cocos multiply Asexually quite quickly. Many a time I have seen 40 to 60 from one tube worm, the most ever I have gotten is a mass of 92 from one rock off one tube worm, large masses of the soft tubed polychaeta is cool to see and quite common! There are fan worms, cocos, several types of calcium tubed worms including xmas tree worms, soft tubed worms which is possibly yours and so on, put something near it quickly, if it retracts quickly it is a tube worm if it bends to retract semi slowly, it is a feather sea star. I did up a long thread on these guys years back. These are few of mine up high of maybe 35 or so now and increasing, lol, the speckled ones are the fast breeders. They are some awesome photos. The ones in my tank retract quickly as soon as you look at them pretty much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene4567 Posted August 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Thought I would share a progress of my tank. A friend of mine needed to make room in his reef tank so I scored a couple free corals. Slipshodman and Aqua Addict 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ageofaquariums Posted September 1, 2016 Report Share Posted September 1, 2016 Nice green hammer! I would give that the premium spot on the rock! gene4567 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
