Help - Dangerous critter?

This is a strange situation, hope you can catch it.

 

it’s like the hunt for Elves... but we all know he is in the basement of the NSA building but thats a different story...

hope you catch it too. I would love to see a good pic of it

And Welcome to 3reef.
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lol this has definitely added some excitement around here, we call it the "sea monster". Have had no luck in seeing it again, we did a night feeding hoping to see it come out but alias, no luck.

 

Well, hopefully it will show itself again (or be a species that only eats algae).

 

Been diligently trying to catch this thing on image., no luck. Have been given the advice to flush the rock out with carbonated water but not sure if this would harm the rock at all, or how long I would have to dip it for, any suggestion on such a procedure?

Weve got more LR on the way and hoping to get rid of it before finishing the aquascape.

 

If you dip the whole rock, you'll definitely harm much of the beneficial bacteria. Some people put a rack or eggcrate over a bucket and pour seltzer water into the holes. The critters will jump out of the rock into the bucket (filled with saltwater). Then you can pick out the critters you want to keep and put them back into your tank.

 

I hope you are able to ID it before you get rid of it!! This sounds really interesting and very perplexing... plz give us updates!!