Recent content by OddFish

May I add more images, only not all are identified? Another group of pictures for the FAQ is waiting for identification in the Multiple ID for HitchFAQ thread.

No interest in the topic or unrecognizable? :D I thought, it will be nice to expand the illustrated HitchFAQ...

28,29. Red kelp-like algae, colder color, glossier, less feathery. Cheilosporum sp? http://www.com.univ-mrs.fr/IRD/atollpol/ecorecat/ukalgesp.htm 30. Green stiff algae, not chaeto and longer than valonia.

25. Red turf algae? Wire-like. 26, 27. Red turf algae? Short wider leaves.

22. Hair-thin green algae. 23. Short fan-like green algae. 24. Ulva-looking algae, only long folded shape.

Algae: 19. Red forking algae, Rhodopeltis or Galaxaura? http://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/eng/47/2091/Rhodopeltis/sp.%20.htm http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/results.asp?ebg=zM&search=true 20, 21. Sargassum?

16, 17. Feather dusters, another kind. 18. Flabelligerid (iridescent) and the barnacle above it (ducking movements), right? On the same Christmas tree rock.

13. Red slime - cyanobacteria? 14. Worm-like, attached. 15. Small feather duster in cone-shaped tube.

Thank you! Continue: 10, 11. Hydroids? 12. Top view of already posted mollusk.

7. Brown mushroom-like mass - could be Lobophora? http://www.marinelifephotography.com/marine/seaweeds/brown-seaweeds.htm 8. Yellow encrusting sponge? 9. Crab inside Christmas tree rock. Long antennae. Will continue later.

4. Some kind of very thin worm. 5. Pink encrusting something. No central or multiple openings. 6. Orange, thanslucent encrusting base, with kind of protruding feather dusters.

Can you identify the following hitchhikers (pictures will be submitted for Hitchhikers FAQ)? Thank you! 1. Unknown.jpg - tube with colorless tectacles, not octocorallia or aiptasia. 2. Colonial turnicates? White dots on red background. 3. Some kind of mollusk.

Small vermetids, with and without strands of mucus. Spirobranchus, or Christmas tree worm, under hairy mushroom.

Chaetomorpha, in short - Chaeto. One of the best algae for refugium. Non-invasive. Iridescent blue-green staghorn algae - Dictiota, possibly Dictyota friabilis. Links: http://biodiv.upf.pf/base/taxon.php?id=1066, different dictiotas...

Flatworm, could be the red planaria. Foraminiferans, the red could be Homotrema rubrum. Links: http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-07/rs/index.php, http://www.recif-france.com/Database/119.htm Majano anemone. Multiplies too fast.