Jelly? Hydroid?

In all the years I've never seen anything like this in any of my systems. I'm thinking hydroid but after looking through my library and looking on line I found a photo of a critter just like it.







Video of the swim action. Much like a jelly would use propulsion.

And finally a pic I stole from an ID thread on another forum. These look exactly like what I found. The ID was unanimously jellyfish. But I thought I'd ask you all.

 

Certainly looks like a jellyfish swimming. Not sure otherwise. For some reason I think it is something else but have no idea what or why I feel that way. LOL

Very cool Mike.

 

I have no clue either.

I added 2 pounds of sand that was collected in 30 feet of water to my fuge about 2 months ago. And yes it was collected legally within the confines of a LR mariculture facility off the Coast of Florida in the gulf. It was special request granted by a friend because I wanted to see what life would come out of it and look at some under a microscope. I don't know if that is where these came from because I've added frags from numerous systems over the last couple months and algae from the Pacific side of FL.

 

Wow the Pacific side of Florida!!???!!! Must be pretty rare algae!!!! All joking aside I agree on jellyfish!

 

Yeah it's NEW florida. AKA Baja.

Jeez I meant the Atlantic. :-[

 

thats so awesome! what r you going to do with it?

 

There are three that I found. I flushed them

 

Hydroid jellyfish. I've had them before. I had to get mine ID'd by Ron Shimek to find out what it was back then because no one knew what they were!

Hydroid stage
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Jelly getting ready to release
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Jelly
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