SunFlower Seed

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  1. crank2211

    crank2211 Purple Spiny Lobster

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    I noticed a few of these residing in holes in my LR. They all were dead looking, crusty and broken open a month or two ago. Today I come home from work to find 2 of these "Sunflower" looking seeds on the substrate open, green and with hairs on the edges. Kinds of looks like a sunflower seed / venus fly trap. They're not dead at all like the bottom pics. Rather they look ripe. :confused:

    Any Ideas?

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    crank2211, Mar 9, 2009
    crank2211, Mar 9, 2009
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  2. cuttingras

    cuttingras Starving Artist :)

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    Not real sure what they are! Crazy looking though! Do the ones in the rocks move around? Do the recently opened ones move? How about pods from a mangrove tree? seeds maybe?
     
    cuttingras, Mar 9, 2009
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  3. crank2211

    crank2211 Purple Spiny Lobster

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    Nope, nothing moving around... The ones in the rock look like empty shells. On the sand, they look like a seed of some sort
     
    crank2211, Mar 9, 2009
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  4. jonjonwells

    jonjonwells Great Blue Whale

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    I have several throughout my rockwork. Good filter feeders.

    Perhaps you had one die and fall out.
     
    jonjonwells, Mar 9, 2009
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