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10-26-2004, 06:24 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
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|  How Big will this get
Just found this in my tank.actually i found 2 of them slithering around.they are very very small.i took the picture with it placed in a shot glass. http://www.3reef.com/cgi-bin/album.p...s/DSCF0241.JPG
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[img ]http://www.3reef.com/uploads/Birdsig.jpg[/img]&&75Gal,Jebo 180 skimmer,20Gal Sump/Refuge,cascade 1000 filter filled with cured liverock.&&2clowns,1yellow tang,1 niger trigger,1firefish,1scarlet cleaner,1 emerald crab,,3feather dusters,8green?????,3 blue legged hermit crabs,30 Yellow polyps and one Striped mushroom.30lbs Of live rock so far.
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10-26-2004, 06:36 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
Posts: 6,358
 
| Re: How Big will this get
That's a mini brittle star and they don't get much larger than that  | |
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10-26-2004, 06:44 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Troy, MI,Michigan
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| Re: How Big will this get
That looks like a Brittle Star. I had on that was 10 inchs from tip to tip.
Jay has a pic as an example: http://www.3reef.com/cgi-bin/yabb/Ya...0686;start=4#4
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100 gal. Glass Tank, 100 lbs of LR, 100 lbs of LS, 1x400w MH 13K(8hrs), 3xVHO (11hrs), Venturi Potein skimmer, 20 gal sump, 1xIwalki MD-30RLXT, 2x400 gal hr powerheads.&&Sal 1.022 @ 81deg,NH3 = 0,PO4 = .1,NO2 = 0,NO3 = 2.5,PH = 8.2, CA = 450.
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10-26-2004, 09:08 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
Posts: 999
  | Re: How Big will this get
amcarrig is right.. I have a couple in my tank. they are micro bristle stars. Keep them they'll clean your sand pretty good.
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20Gal, 45 lbs LR, 65W PC 10 000K + 65W PC 20 000K + 10Gal sump/fuge
Livestock :hermit and snails, Green star polyps, Button polyps, Finger leather, Xenia, Zoanthids, Mushrooms, Yellow polyps, montipora digitata, acropora, ?mistery polyps?, mistery crab, six line wrasse | |
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10-27-2004, 05:09 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
Posts: 173
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| Re: How Big will this get
Thanx guys and gals | |
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10-27-2004, 06:19 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
Posts: 999
| Re: How Big will this get
Hey John, just for my info, how did you catch that thing? i see mine once maybe every month if im lucky and looking at the right spot at the right time... | |
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10-27-2004, 07:23 AM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Erie, PA,Pennsylvania
Posts: 173
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| Re: How Big will this get
I seen it moving on the bottom,got an airline,held my thumb over one end and stuck it in the tank right next to it,lifted my thumb off and it got sucked up.They can move pretty quick for what they are. | |
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10-27-2004, 07:28 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
Posts: 999
| Re: How Big will this get
cool John.. thanks... good idea
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11-15-2004, 12:26 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
Posts: 3,451
| Re: How Big will this get
O i know those once i got a rock...and like 30 of them were there lol ever since my sand is so nice and they have parties at night... _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1 x 54w Fiji Purple T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w Super Actinic Blue T5 HO Flourescent
1 x 54w 14000K AquaBlue 75/25 T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
Hard Stuff:
100+ lb. Fiji Live Rock
65+ lb. Live sand
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11-15-2004, 12:37 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Vancouver, WA,Washington Age: 21
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| Re: How Big will this get
yeah those are defentily micro stars. i have like 2 of them but i want to get more. They are very good at cleaning your sand and your detrius. | |
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