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09-24-2005, 02:41 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Downriver, Michigan
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 |  Identification
3reefers...I need your helppppp. I am sorry about having no photo of the critter, but my camera is being mean with me and won't connect. Well here goes my best description of the critter, which I believe to be either a)cucumber, or b)slug of some sort.
Right now, it is roughly 1" long, a tannish brown color, with many little tentacles sticking out of its body. Each tentacle is basically like a caterpillar foot, with stickies on the end. Each sticky is a black color, and it can latch onto things such as plastic and glass and crawl up. One end is thinner than the other. I think it is a cuke, but I want to be sure before I add him to my tank.
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09-24-2005, 02:47 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Downriver, Michigan
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| Re: Identification
That is the closest I can find to what I have. The one I have right now has less spines and is tan. | |
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09-24-2005, 05:24 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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| Re: Identification
Hmm, don't know that I can really help, but I did not think cucumbers had tentacle like appendages...I am not certain. Perhaps it is and echinoderm?(sp?) Let me see what I can find....brb _________  I Love My Sig By John Hawkins!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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09-24-2005, 05:26 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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| Re: Identification
Well, it appears the cucumbers are in that family, and can be venomous... http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic158.htm
let's see if we can narrow the field down a bit... | |
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09-24-2005, 05:46 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Downriver, Michigan
Posts: 81
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| Re: Identification
Thanks. I don't really know what to call them. I will just say caterpillar feet, because basically, they are just sticky pads that it moves with, clinging to glass and such. | |
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09-24-2005, 06:01 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Downriver, Michigan
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| Re: Identification
Nope not the one. I will see if I can draw a rough sketch. 
Just consider one end is thinner then the other. | |
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09-24-2005, 06:04 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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| Re: Identification
Verbal/written communication is so overrated!
Are the feet thingies just out to the sides and bottom? Or on the top as well?
I can admit defeat! I don't know! LOL!!! But from what I have read, cucumbers have little suction cup feet things just like starfish and urchins. | |
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09-24-2005, 06:08 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Downriver, Michigan
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| Re: Identification
Ya. It is so hard to explain this kind of thing, and have people understand. I thought it was a cuke. But yes, the legs are on all sides. The legs are all parallel and run down the length of its body,, each with a black tip that I suppose is a sticky foot. It has, by my guestimate, about 7-8 rows of these legs, each leg roughly 1-2 mm apart, each row of legs roughly 2-3 mm apart. | |
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09-24-2005, 06:15 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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| Re: Identification
Ok, so we got , radial symmetry, sticky feet, and a soft body? Sounds like Echinoderm family and I would venture to say, a cucumber. But I am at a loss to help you narrow it down any more.
Perhaps when you get the pic on your computer and uploaded here, maybe Gresham can help with the ID. He is good at that stuff!  | |
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