Comes out at dawn to pull in what it can

I started a new timing scheme where the actinic lights are on 2 hours before and after the halides are on and im loving the new coral and fish behavior due to it, and it seems to have pulled out a new hitchiker from one of my rocks, i couldnt get a good enough picture of it I'm still playing with my new camera but i did get a decent video:

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It has seven? arms that resemble plant roots, black and white and seems to have a black mouth. and is pulling food from the water into its mouth, any ideas?


-Dan

 

sorry for the crazy link

 

I think maybe it's a brittle sea star? I have really bad eyes, so I can't see it that well!

 

yea im thinking its something like this :

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/EchinodermPIX/Ophiuroids/Astrophyton_muricatumStLNgt2.jpg

from a link on another id thread

 

I am pretty sure that is a cucumber. Usually stays in one place.

Edit:

Look through here....
http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/seacucumberphotos/ig/Sea-Cucumber-Pictures/

 

Yes! I definitely think that looks like what's in your video.

 

yup i agree with jonjon here. really looks like a sea cucumber. cool hitchiker by the way.

 

Maybe something like this??

http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01819/Images/Sea%20Cucumber_jpg.jpg

Maybe when it outgrows the rock it will reveal its true identity, i could agree to the cucumber due to the way it behaves, it just dosed some reef bugs im going to continue to search for new creepy's ! anyone else wanna guess at it?

 

Nah, I vote for brittle star, they have a tendency to stay hidden when they are small.

 

still looks like this to me from looking at the video.

http://www.elasmodiver.com/BCMarinelife/images/Peppered-sea-cucumber.jpg

i sourced the pic from this site. look to the bottom of the page.

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