Hey all,
I'm nailing my hitchhiker ID's left and right..but I've got three that have stumped me. And since the guys in #reefs are getting annoyed with my queries...I'll try the board out. Here goes:
Mystery Guest #1: A snail. Smooth (not crusty like turbos, astreas, et al), spiraled (like a freshwater snail almost..think Ramshorn) shell. Nocturnal only...see them with the flashlight at night and only at night..but the morning they're in hiding. They have a tiger-striped shell patern that alternates between brown and cream-coloured. They graze on the LR and rarely venture down to the sand..from what I've seen at least. Anything?
Mystery Guest #2: Piles of sand. I'm currently having my first diatom bloom and it was getting bad. This morning however, I awoke to find several "ant hills" of sand in the sand bed with all of the diatoms around the sand hills eaten. Little circles of clear sand in the diatom field. Whoever these guys are..I'd like to thank them. Anything?
Mystery Guest #3: Anemones. A pair of these guys came on LR. They have a very thick whitish trunk and short-medium length tentacles that are brown/red. I thought they were polyps at first until they started to get up and move...one migrated all the way down the rock face to hide in a patch of hair algae...the other picked up and floated off and is now on the back face of the rock. They're about 1/2" in diameter. They don't look anything like aptaisia (aptaisia being skinny and more elongate, I've got them too..eradicating where and when I can) Anything?
Thanks in advance guys...
I'm nailing my hitchhiker ID's left and right..but I've got three that have stumped me. And since the guys in #reefs are getting annoyed with my queries...I'll try the board out. Here goes:
Mystery Guest #1: A snail. Smooth (not crusty like turbos, astreas, et al), spiraled (like a freshwater snail almost..think Ramshorn) shell. Nocturnal only...see them with the flashlight at night and only at night..but the morning they're in hiding. They have a tiger-striped shell patern that alternates between brown and cream-coloured. They graze on the LR and rarely venture down to the sand..from what I've seen at least. Anything?
Mystery Guest #2: Piles of sand. I'm currently having my first diatom bloom and it was getting bad. This morning however, I awoke to find several "ant hills" of sand in the sand bed with all of the diatoms around the sand hills eaten. Little circles of clear sand in the diatom field. Whoever these guys are..I'd like to thank them. Anything?
Mystery Guest #3: Anemones. A pair of these guys came on LR. They have a very thick whitish trunk and short-medium length tentacles that are brown/red. I thought they were polyps at first until they started to get up and move...one migrated all the way down the rock face to hide in a patch of hair algae...the other picked up and floated off and is now on the back face of the rock. They're about 1/2" in diameter. They don't look anything like aptaisia (aptaisia being skinny and more elongate, I've got them too..eradicating where and when I can) Anything?
Thanks in advance guys...