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03-07-2007, 10:48 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Miami
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|  a shrimp?!?
ok, i know that this might sound weird, or maybe not, maybe its something normal. is it possible for a shrimp to grow on a rock? let me explain: on one of my rocks, in the front, besides all the furry algae, i have this clear shrimp looking creature. it seems to be stuck onto the rock by its dorsal. honestly, it looks like a shrimp. it has the scaley back, croutched up in the front, with all this antennaes or something coming out of the front. this was never there, i saw it yesterday, for the first time. what do you guys think it is?  its weird... _________ since 2/16/07: 14Gal. biocube with 10lb of LR, 15lb of LS. 48 watts PC's 2 firefish, 10 hermits, sand sifting star | 
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03-07-2007, 11:16 AM
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| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Jan 2007
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A shrimp should not be connected to a rock. Unless he is stuck there for some reason. They do not grow on rocks. Post a picture of it if you can. May be someone can ID it for you. | |
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03-07-2007, 11:55 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 43
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May be a pod! Can you post a picture like pshootr implied? _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
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03-07-2007, 12:09 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Miami,Florida Age: 20
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I think ita also a pod, her tank is full of them. Maybe she has a really big pod!!! _________ *Since 12/2002 40 gal. 85 lbs live rock. 3" fiji Live sand.wet dry filter and prizm protein skimmer. 192 power compacts
*Since 10/2006 125 gal. Built in Overflows x2, 3" LS(165 lb fiji pink) 175 lb of LR, 2x 36" aquatinics T5 HO fixtures(10x39W bulbs 2 gliesman aquablue+1 gliesman actinic+2 ATI aquablue special), mag 18 return pump, PM R30fuge. AquaC EV 180 skimmer.
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03-08-2007, 04:48 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Miami
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its approximately 2 centimeters. if its a pod, why is it stuck on to the rock? its not moving... | |
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03-08-2007, 11:35 PM
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| | Bristle Worm
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No picture of it? | |
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03-10-2007, 08:43 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Rensselaer, Indiana
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could be a molt
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55 gal. tall
45lbs sand
70 lbs live rock
aqualife 95x2 pc
penguin biowheel filter
2 power heads
aqua c skimmer hob
1 percula clown
1 damsel
2 bta
1 cleaner shrimp
mess of snails
large col of sun polyps
25 blue hermit crabs
1 sandsifting star
xenia
brown and orange zo's
several blue mushrooms
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03-12-2007, 05:08 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Miami
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i tried to take a picture of it, but it simply came out blurry. sorry! however, its been a few days and i think i put two and two together. i think that it WAS a pod. i think that it got stuck or something and died, because its been a couple of days and it has progressively turned yellow, as if decomposing or something. its pretty nasty! oh well, if i could of showed you guys a picture, everyone would have said it looked like a shrimp, it looked identical. then again, as everyone told me, in the process of reef keeping you learn a lot by experiencing it and then feeling pretty stupid. well, there is a possiblity that one day another newbie will ask the same question, and ill be able to tell them its a pod. hehe  | |
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03-12-2007, 05:41 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Miami,Florida Age: 20
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Youve come to a good conclusion. Good conclusion, you learn from experience and your experience will help others later.
But we still need a picture of that thing so that we can correctly identify it. If you cant take a pic, look for a pic in google or something thatt can more accurately match the one in your tank and let us see, so we can verify its a pod, or a shrimp molt, or whatever. | |
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03-12-2007, 05:48 AM
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#10 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Miami
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oh no! what's a shrimp molt? | |
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