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  1. LeslieH
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    Mole crabs

    Got a picture? The mole crabs sold in LFS are usually temperate water sand beach animals. They live half-buried in the highly-oxygenated swash zone...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 24, 2010 in forum: Inverts
  2. LeslieH
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    Resolved ID this please. (some sort of starfish maybe?)

    Gresh's cavalry is here. ;) It appears to be an asterinid star which means it belongs to the family Asterinidae. They are extremely difficult to...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 23, 2010 in forum: ID This!
  3. LeslieH
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    Some sort of tube worm? (I hope)

    Not at all. The worst that can happen is that you'll have lots more spionids to join your clean-up crew.
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 22, 2010 in forum: ID This!
  4. LeslieH
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    Some sort of tube worm? (I hope)

    Yes. The bubble is an egg mass. Inwall made a good guess when he said spionid. If it isn't a spionid it's at least something related. Would you...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 22, 2010 in forum: ID This!
  5. LeslieH
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    Good or Bad?

    If it really looks like that it's most likely a sphaeromatid. Did you catch them? See if they can roll up into balls. If so they are sphaeros...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 11, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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    Anyone have experience with Strawberry Hawaiin Crabs or possible crab disease/fungus?

    Crabs often have things like algae, sponges, bryozoans, tunicates growing on them. Since your crab is missing a couple of legs it's probably having...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 10, 2010 in forum: Inverts
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    Resolved Help IDing the crab please New Pic 2-20-12

    The thing about web id sites and even the published guides is that they all have mistakes. The best only have a few but some sites are so bad it's...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 8, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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    Resolved Help IDing the crab please New Pic 2-20-12

    Hi 2in10 - got your message. It sure isn't an emerald. There are a lot of families that have been split off the Xanthidae in recent years and your...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 7, 2010 in forum: ID This!
  9. LeslieH
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    HUGE worm?

    Flatworms don't build tubes like that and flatworms are....well, they're flat! This isn't. If you let it move around a bit it should drop the sand....
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 7, 2010 in forum: ID This!
  10. LeslieH
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    What is this?

    Glad you found it. This will give you some more information The Grazing Snails, Part II - Abalones, Limpets and Nerites by Ronald L. Shimek, Ph.D. -...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 6, 2010 in forum: ID This!
  11. LeslieH
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    feather dusters everywhere?

    Great place to live except when it's hot & hazy like today! :cheesy:
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 6, 2010 in forum: ID This!
  12. LeslieH
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    feather dusters everywhere?

    You probably will have to scrape them off once in a while. While they're great for removing particles from the water they can form layers an inch or...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 6, 2010 in forum: ID This!
  13. LeslieH
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    Worm ID.....

    Some eunicids - even some big ones - are vegetarians & detritus feeders. The problem is that it's really hard to get good information on who eats...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 6, 2010 in forum: Inverts
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    Unresolved Hitchhiker star

    It would be more accurate to call it an asterinid which means it belongs to the family Asterinidae. Asterina is just one genus in this family....
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 6, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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    Worm ID.....

    Was it actually feeding on the duster or just moving it? Eunicids are big landscapers. They camouflage the opening of their burrows or build...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 5, 2010 in forum: Inverts
  16. LeslieH
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    really weird thing!?

    Yeah, it's hard at first but after the first 500 or so you get an eye for them LOL
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 4, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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    really weird thing!?

    Sure it was that particular one? There are probably a couple of hundred species in each family.... :) But you're right, they are very cool animals!
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 4, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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    really weird thing!?

    Ah...er...ahem....sorry..... It's easy to be fooled with these guys. It's not a spagetti worm. Those are in the polychaete family Terebellidae....
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 4, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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    Please ID

    Aiptasia reproduces very rapidly by splitting off clones - that's what makes it a devastating pest in reef tanks. They also seem to be able to...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 4, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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    Nudibranch ID Help!

    It seems to be Dendrodoris fumata which is common in the Indo-Pacific. There's a very similiar one called Dendrodoris nigra. Both have quite...
    Post by: LeslieH, Jun 2, 2010 in forum: ID This!
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