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The biggest ones live in the Antarctic; they're about as long & as wide as an american football & about 2 inches thick. Temperate & tropical species...
Thanks Curt, although I'm not really sure I want that name stuck in my head whenever I see one of these in the future! :D I much prefer the common...
Stuff & nonsense! :) It's a normal event that takes place once or a couple times a year in certain species, as normal as coral spawning. The worms...
:laugh3: Why am I not surprised? :laugh3:
I'm really glad to see the results. Just a few years ago the response would have been overwhelmingly "kill the suckers!" Fortunately the old myths...
Nope, you still have lots & lots of eunicids. :) An epitoke can be either the whole animal that's modified or the modified hind end which has broken...
Epitoke is right. They're the sexually modified rear ends of eunicid polychaetes.
Gabby - they're reef safe and the spines won't hurt anything Incognito -- Nope, no names. If the images are supposed to enlarge when clicked that...
My sincere apologies for giving offense Incognito, as I didn't mean to imply that you had used the photos without permission, just that the credits...
Not exactly. Gabby, thanks for emailing me. Your creature & the picture on the left in Incognito's link are not barnacles. They are polychaete...
It's a solitary tunicate AKA sea squirt. I can see both the incurrent & outcurrent siphons even though the picture is blurry. It's a filter feeder...
The first one is probably a polychaete in the family Spionidae. 2 feeding tentacles come off the head to pick up food particles. Some species in...
Ah, now that's a interesting "animal" for a change. It's a naked (as opposed to shelled) branching foraminiferan, a single-cell organism. They're...
Sorry, it appears to be a species of Dermatobranchus. The whole family are specialized predators on soft corals and gorgonians. Here's a similar...
This is an easy crab to id because of the distinctive color pattern on its carapace. Atergatis floridus, the egg crab (because the shell is smooth &...
That first one is a great link because it shows the worm in an aquarium just like in the original poster's image.
Baby swimming crab in the family Portunidae. It is an aggressive predator.
It's just a harmless peanut worm, phylum Sipuncula. It's a detritus feeder that picks up food particles with a ring of short tentacles.
It doesn't appear to be any of the images on that page. The colors of the legs, the antennae, the mouthparts, and the eyes are all diagnostic...
All crabs start small & grow and there are thousands of species. Without a crisp, well focused image it's impossible to say what it is, sorry.
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