What is this?

This just came in with my 2 cucumber worms(hitchiker). Anybody wanna take a guess?? It does have a head, eyes and mouth. I'll get better pics when I get the cucumbers out of the bag.

 

does it have legs or fins?

 

doesn't appear to

 

it looks like a pipefish... but not sure caue in one pi it looks like it could be a shrimp.

 

I took a closer look yes it does

 

Being in GA, you probally got carribean cucumbers so more then likely its a pipefish.

 

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more pics is it safe for my tank? this stuff came reeftopia(key west)

 

Not a pipe...too big of head...

Anybody ?

 

It's a fish that lives in your cucumber's.....uuuhhh....tuckus. I kid you not. Pearl fish.

Symbiosis: Parasitism

On another forum, this fish has been dubbed the "Gonad Eating Butt Fish"

 

OMG funny you should say that!!!! I JUST saw the fish slip up it's tuckus(as you so eloquintly put it)!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMGGGGGGGGG I wasn't sure which end was up LOL I thought the worm may have eaten it OHHHH that is so gross! is it ok for that thing to be in my tank....oh that is just nasty I'm scarred for life!