Can you ID this thing?

Solowkoe · 09-22-2006, 07:13 PM

I bought a stick with some coral from my LFS. when i woke up the next morning, there was a orange thing that look like a fat, small orange worm thingy, but it doesnt move. I think it came out of the middle of the hollow stick. its kinda ugly. Then when i woke up the morning after that, the orange thing had a cloud of mukis surrounding it, but thats after i did a 30%water change. can you tell me what it is and whats surrounding it? is it ok to have?

i actually dont even know what kind of coral it was i bought, it was on sell, so i bought it. i think its a brown blasto or zoo, can you tell me. i will try to post pictures with this post.

JustPhish · 09-22-2006, 07:43 PM

The coral is a type of zoanthid. Blastomussas are hard corals. I am curious if the worm is a vermetid snail that lost it's tube and is currently building a new one.

The head of it certainly looks like a vermetid. See if the stuff around it hardens and if it sends out a mucous net that it sucks back into it's tube from time to time.

Reef Lover · 09-22-2006, 07:43 PM

Is the small orange spot flat and moves around? It might be flat worms.

Solowkoe · 09-22-2006, 08:42 PM

no, its not flat, its like the size of my pinky round.

m_lacom99 · 09-22-2006, 09:22 PM

+1 on the vermetid

90_Berlin_joe · 09-23-2006, 05:05 AM

bouraganes · 09-24-2006, 05:07 PM

BE careful I've had some bad expieriences with worm recently!

Solowkoe · 09-24-2006, 10:26 PM

it kinda looks like that, but without a shell. anyways, it died and so he went to the big toilet in the sky. i am guessing thats what the mucis was from.