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    Posted: March 20 2005 at 11:52pm

Hello everyone,

Still playing around with my camera, any advice would be appreciated.

 

 

 

This stupid worm wouldn't stay in the scrapped area like I told it to.

 

Thanks,

Chris



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New toys are cool! 

Great pics Chris!
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Those are some cool pics! Very nice.
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Wow, very nice.

Looks like good(?) planeria around that red feather duster worm!

How many eggs are in an Astrea snail egg case?

Is there a worm living and depositing detritus within the structure of that sponge?

Did those tiny spiral feather dusters get buried or did they grow underground?
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Hello everyone,

Thanks for the compliments everyone

Originally posted by Mark Peterson Mark Peterson wrote:

Looks like good(?) planeria around that red feather duster worm!

Actually they're crustaceans, more specifically isopods. Typically they're referred to as sand skaters. From what I've read, they're a beneficial critter that basically feeds on detrius. Addtionally, from what I understand they're not very common in home aquaria. IMO this likely due to the predators that are regularly kept with them.

Just below the FDWs tube you can see another smaller but similar critter. So far I've been assuming they're skater babies.

I've been trying to get a shot of my Munnid isopods but they're not cooperating so far...

Originally posted by Mark Peterson Mark Peterson wrote:

How many eggs are in an Astrea snail egg case?

Is that actually an Astrea egg? I thought they were long string-like things? I was guessing they were nassarius or nerite. I'm not sure how stomas reproduce, but that was an idea as well.

Originally posted by Mark Peterson Mark Peterson wrote:

Is there a worm living and depositing detritus within the structure of that sponge?

Nope, no worm in there. The sponges seem to catch, store and I'm guessing eat the stuff?

Originally posted by Mark Peterson Mark Peterson wrote:

Did those tiny spiral feather dusters get buried or did they grow underground?

I think they were burried but I'm not sure. Regardless, I do have a bunch of FDWs that live in the sand. In that shot you can spot a few of them as red blurs in the background.

Thanks again,

Chris
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