Need an I.D!

[shift_9k]

What is this? It seems like a three headed something its bright red, almost magenta colored. Growing near the top of the rock. Still very small.

The other thing is this, there are like three of them that I can see. Also i found something very small brownish in color that resembles a ghost shrimp messing around near the bottom of that same rock.


All of these things are on this rock.

The water reads

1.023 sg

0.0 Nitrite/ate

1.0 ppm Ammonia (was at .25 last night)

temp 77-84 having trouble holdin it.

 

[shift_9k]

Also the tank has been up and running for about two days.

 

[CoolWaters]

isnt the red thing in the first pic just coral line....i have like a thousand of thos in my tank....

not sure about the 3rd pic too blurry.

i got a few of thos brown crustly things on the last pic...was wondering what they were for a while now....

lost my digi cam but will upload pics of mine later.

 

[shift_9k]

Kinda looks like a clam.....and i think i also saw an amphipod.... but dont know what it does, or what to do about it.

 

[JeLeAk]

i duno what the first is, but the 2nd looks like a clam shell

 

[eva]

The red things are foraminiferans...they are filter feeders and completely harmless...the second pic I can't really make it what it is

 

[CoolWaters]

The red things are foraminiferans...they are filter feeders and completely harmless...the second pic I can't really make it what it is

really? i thought they were incrusted coral line...

hey i have a clam thing stuck in my LR too. to me it looks like a common cleaner clam nothing big like maximas.

 

[Katie217]

I have the same things on my LR peices as the first pic. they look pretty cool actually

 

[Joe Fish]

I have a few of those clam shell things. I don't think anything are in mine.

 

[ram man]

I seriously have no idea how people are making these id's. The pics are too blurry for me to tell what they are. For the first pic, can you get a shot of the whole thing? All I can make out are blurry red sticks. The last pics look lik empty clam shells to me, I had a few in my old ten gallon.

 

[shift_9k]

If they're dead wont they cause a spike in parameters? Im thinkin of pullin em just in case.

 

[CoolWaters]

its more like fossils now. lol

they shouldnt unless they just died.

 

[shift_9k]

Just checked parameters today,

Nirtrate- 20ppm

Nitrite- 1.0ppm

Ammonia- .25ppm

Salinity- 1.023

Temp holding constant at 81.3


The tank has been up for 4 days with "cured" LR.


Is everything gravey or should I do something?

 

[Lorna]

just wait, be patient....4 days is nothing.......even a quick cycle is over a week.

 

[CoolWaters]

oh its being cured right now...

i think mine was instant cured because i bought mine precured in my LFS. but i still didnt add livestock until a month later.

 

[shift_9k]

Oh im in no rush, i just wanted to see if that was normal or not.

 

[Lotus]

Yes, it's normal. There's no need to do a water change until your ammonia and nitrites are at zero.

 

[dbacksrat]

As for the first thing, eva's right on that one. Nothing but a foram. As far as everything else goes...I dunno.

 

[shift_9k]

Figured I'd bring this one back from the dead instead of posting a new one. Saw some things last night, so I took some shots.

I'll group them, the first pictures you will see are of a worm, what kind I have no idea, reef safe? I have no idea. Take a look:

 

[shift_9k]

The next one is this worm, much slimmer and much smalled, was picking at my ricordia frag rock, not at the coral just at the rock. Should I be worried? Also these things seem be crawling out on to the sand....dead? That was the first one I saw moving it would peak its head out, stretch towards the rock and then pull back.

dead crap on sand