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Topic: Sea Spider
Posted By: SGH360
Subject: Sea Spider
Date Posted: November 02 2010 at 1:23pm
well i just got a frag today, and spotted a sea spider as big as a zoa polyp, it was white i manage to squish it and die, i was wondering what are the problems this guys can cause? do they reproduce asexually?



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Posted By: CapnMorgan
Date Posted: November 02 2010 at 1:29pm
No they don't reproduce asexually. Sea spiders almost always end up eating corals, fish, or inverts you want to keep alive. So in short, if you have one kill it.

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Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 12:54am
Could it have been a Shrimp Larvae?

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Posted By: SGH360
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 2:41am
nope it was a sea spider it looked like a daddy long leg, but micro size, i thought aiptasia was the only thing to worry about when i picked up the frag


Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 9:21am
Do you have a Wrasse in this tank?

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Posted By: SGH360
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 11:38am
i do have a sixline wrasse, i never see him eating anything when it times to eat but its healthy


Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 6:10pm
The Six-line would have had that Spider for lunch.

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Posted By: Shane H
Date Posted: November 03 2010 at 11:09pm
I was hoping to see a picture of an arrow crab.   My wife calls those sea spiders!  (she is not a fan!)


Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 8:20am
I would not be surprised to learn that a larval Arrow Crab could be easily mistaken for a Sea Spider. This is why I only kill the known pests. Everything but known pests are allowed to live in my systems. Out of dozens of my own tanks and hundreds of other peoples tanks I've cared for over the years, you could probably make the list of common pests I found it necessary to eliminate. Smile
Here is an example. I found this in a Pocillipora. What do you think it could be?




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Posted By: Lewy
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 11:13am
I would say a shrimp larva of some kind.

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Posted By: SGH360
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 12:39pm
mine did not look like that it was just a dot with eight legs, isnt that a peppermint larva?


Posted By: CapnMorgan
Date Posted: November 04 2010 at 1:23pm
Originally posted by Mark Peterson Mark Peterson wrote:

 



I have a ton of those in my tank. I always see them at about 6am when I get home from work.


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Steve
http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40637&PID=356246" rel="nofollow - My Old 180G Mixed Reef
Currently:
120G Wavefront Mixed
29G Seahorse & Softies
Running ReefAngel Plus x2
435-8


Posted By: dave huish
Date Posted: February 02 2011 at 12:30am
Certain Sea Spiders can be very nasty. Sounds like you had one.

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