2 new IDs, help please :)

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  1. 71sbeetle

    71sbeetle Fire Shrimp

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    Alright, so I was looking around in my tank and found this thing, it looked like little algaes, but turns out they are some kind of tentacles, they started retracting (rolling up actually) when I left the light on them for a few seconds, and when I took the light away they'd come back out.

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    And I never really knew what this was (hitch hiker on LR I got a long time ago):

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  2. Siddique

    Siddique Dragon Wrasse

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    I have no idea... I'm anxious to see what others think.
    The last pic. Does it move around the tank?
     
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  3. 71sbeetle

    71sbeetle Fire Shrimp

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    no, it's a stony coral of some type
     
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  4. charlesr1958

    charlesr1958 Flamingo Tongue

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    The first one is probably the feeding appendages of a sea cucumber species and the coral is most likely a Favites spp.

    Stony Coral Genus Groups

    Chuck
     
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  5. phoenixhieghts

    phoenixhieghts Panda Puffer

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    as said above the first two look like the appendages of a sea cucumber. The third pic looks like a dead galaxy. Not sure tho
     
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  6. kloak

    kloak Astrea Snail

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    agreed my buddys tank had the same looking thing and sure enough cucumber, no idea on the coral though. sorry :-/
     
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  7. whippy

    whippy Sailfin Tang

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  8. lunatik_69

    lunatik_69 Giant Squid

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    I agree on the second pic, but I dont think its dead, more like retreated. Luna
     
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  9. charlesr1958

    charlesr1958 Flamingo Tongue

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    I would have thought the same except it was described as being able to curl back, not something a foraminiferan can do.

    Chuck
     
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  10. 71sbeetle

    71sbeetle Fire Shrimp

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    cool thanks guys, yeah the coral definitely isn't dead, it was late at night after the lights were off so it looks a little less "excited" than normal. As for the other one, wouldn't a sea cucumber (we call them rori in Tahiti) move around in the tank ? and it would be on the sand more right ? this is on the LR towards the top of the tank, and it's at the same spot still.
    thanks again for the help !
     
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