ID and advice needed for unusual creature

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  1. ChicagoReefOne

    ChicagoReefOne Flamingo Tongue

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    Alright 3reefers, I need your brainy help on this one. The picture is in the attachment, I hope people can see it well enough. It's some worm-like creature that lives in the LR, it's got antennae and a red, round mouth. I hope that that helps describe the pic a little more. The thing I need advice with is it seems to spread some sort of mucus-like net over the LR, I saw it sucking in these strands last night. I have a pocillopora near it that hasn't extended its polyps as much recently and looks burnt/dead on one side and I haven't been able to figure out why until I found this guy. Could it be the reason? :confused:

    All input very welcome! Thanks in advance.
     

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  2. jonjonwells

    jonjonwells Great Blue Whale

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    Verminted Snail. They are know to irritate corals.
     
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  3. blumoon reefers

    blumoon reefers Millepora

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    Vermteid snail?
     
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  4. ChicagoReefOne

    ChicagoReefOne Flamingo Tongue

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    hmmm I bet that is it, can anyone find a better pic online? I have been looking but can't find a pic to make a totally positive id.
     
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  5. blumoon reefers

    blumoon reefers Millepora

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  6. horkn

    horkn Giant Squid

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    yep, vermetid snail. I had one annoy a nice maxima clam to death. I nuke them now.
     
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  7. Jacwil

    Jacwil Coral Banded Shrimp

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    Interesting...my wife noticed a string of mucus-like stuff hanging off our crocea. I will have to investigate.
     
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  8. horkn

    horkn Giant Squid

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    IME, killing that offending vermetid is cheap insurance for your clam.

    The one I had annoy my last maxima was on the clam's shell.
     
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  9. missionsix

    missionsix Super Moderator Staff Member

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    Can someone show me where the vermetid snail is in the pic? And a vermetid snail isn't going to pester a coral anymore than any other algae destroying snail. This is the first I have heard of destroying a perfectly good part of a cuc.........
     
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    missionsix Super Moderator Staff Member

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    If a "brown-like" "stringy stuff", maybe expelling zooxanthellae algae?
     
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