Invert eye candy
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Topic: Invert eye candy
Posted By: Simple
Subject: Invert eye candy
Date Posted: March 20 2005 at 11:52pm
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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 ------------- Ascult� tot, dar nu crede tot. Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see. |
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Posted By: coreyk
Date Posted: March 20 2005 at 11:59pm
New toys are cool!  Great pics Chris! |
Posted By: pmpt
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 8:52am
| Those are some cool pics! Very nice. |
Posted By: jfinch
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 9:09am
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Very nice pictures! ------------- Jon https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6y_EzjI_ljbIwf2n5uNzTw" rel="nofollow - What I've been doing... |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 2:27pm
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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? ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member 
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Posted By: Simple
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 4:08pm
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Hello everyone, Thanks for the compliments everyone
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...
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.
Nope, no worm in there. The sponges seem to catch, store and I'm guessing eat the stuff?
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 ------------- Ascult� tot, dar nu crede tot. Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see. |
Mark Peterson wrote: