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Purifire
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New Hitch Hikers?

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Noticed some new life forms on the glass in my tank tonight. They are small white spheroids with 10-15 "arms" on them, maybe 5x the size of a grain of sand. So far they appear to be sessile, I can't tell if the "arms" move or if it's the current. I know pics would help but I don't have a camera with manual focus... Any input?
29 Gallon Marine tank, with refugium, skimmer. Base rock, coral skeletons. Stock: Baby Ocellaurus Clown, young Saddled Toby, 3 Hermit crabs,one 2 inch Bristle Worm, hitch hiking starfish.

10g Biotope. 3 C. Travancoricus (Dwarf Puffer) Some Ghost shrimp, gravel/sand substrate, heavily planted with Swords and Java Moss.

10g LR Culture Tank. 10+ pounds fiji LR / base rock. Assorted hitch hiking inverts

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Look up asterina and see if they look like yours.
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Purifire
Figure 8 Puffer
Posts: 188
Joined: Fri May 13, 2011 3:13 am
Gender: Male
My Puffers: 2 Dwarf Puffers (C. Travancoricus) , 1 male 1 female.

Saddled Toby (C. Vallintini)

Have kept GSPs
Location (country): United States, Lompoc CA

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I'm sure I have full grown ones ( If Aphrodite hasn't eaten them all yet ) But these are TINY. Maybe embryonic versions... IDK. I almost hope so, that would point toward a renewable food chain for her, lol.
29 Gallon Marine tank, with refugium, skimmer. Base rock, coral skeletons. Stock: Baby Ocellaurus Clown, young Saddled Toby, 3 Hermit crabs,one 2 inch Bristle Worm, hitch hiking starfish.

10g Biotope. 3 C. Travancoricus (Dwarf Puffer) Some Ghost shrimp, gravel/sand substrate, heavily planted with Swords and Java Moss.

10g LR Culture Tank. 10+ pounds fiji LR / base rock. Assorted hitch hiking inverts

Some FW tanks.

In My Experience, Fishkeeping is like Cooking. Five or ten basics will keep anyone from getting sick. But to be truly magnificent... You have to know the right Recipies.
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Re: New Hitch Hikers?

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There are millions of different creatures living in our LR. I remember once a chance spotting of something long corkscrewing across my tank once. Very cool. I was told it was come kind of juvenile sessile worm that moves in that manner at that age. Just happened to catch it with the flashlight at the right time at night.
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