I bought a gorgeous torch coral today, and its been in the tank now about 4 hours and still not opened up. while in this state I see what looks like a clam stuck between 2 of the corals ‘heads’ or ‘stalks, or ‘polyps’ whatever you call them. I did not see this at the LFS because the coral was in full bloom and ginormous.

Not sure how to upload photos yet, but it doesn’t look like a coral kind of clam. Maybe I should not call it a clam. It’s a 2 part shell thingee that is closed and turned away from me so i can only see the spine. The little of the mouth I can see appears to have some hair sticking out of it. can someone message me their email addy and I’ll send you a photo?

not sure if its alive or dead or a parasite or what. and its fairly big, its probably 2 inches.

thanks

ps: my clowns seem to have a crush on the torch. so happy!

I recently saw a thing that is living and is attached to my blue damsel, I dont know if it is hurting the damsel because he seems to be acting fine and the Ufo has been attached to him for about 4 days. What should I do?

The UFO is attached on the dorsal side of my fish. Looking close at the thing it looks to have two black eyes and At the other end of it there are two triangular "tails". Thanks for any help or advice. My computer will not allow me to upload my pictures. Very sorry I will try to get them up here.

I recently saw a thing that is living and is attached to my blue damsel, I dont know if it is hurting the damsel because he seems to be acting fine and the Ufo has been attached to him for about 4 days. What should I do?

The UFO is attached on the dorsal side of my fish. Looking close at the thing it looks to have two black eyes and At the other end of it there are two triangular "tails". Thanks for any help or advice. My computer will not allow me to upload my pictures. Very sorry I will try to get them up here.

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I have found these up to two inches long under my LR They are bright pink with white bristles are they anything i should be seriously worried about i have some Mushrooms are they in danger?

I am just starting a tank, just 4 weeks into it, just live rock and live sand in tank. and now i have dark red tree like things growing on the live rock, can some one tell me what it is. and i could use some help on what to do next in the tank, the pet store around me is not much help and the tanks they have look bad,
thank you

I have no idea what this thing is.
It is attached to a piece of live rock I have had for over a year.
I have no idea why I haven’t noticed it before.

It is about 2" long and kinda looks like a bugle…you know, the snack, bugles.

The end of it appears to release spiderweb looking stuff that I first thought was hair algae.
Then I noticed it was coming from this bugle-looking thing.
Upon further inspection, I swear I can see 2 antenae coming out of the end of this thing.
When I put something in front of it, the antenae retract.

Attempts at a picture were not too successful

Any ideas?

Hi so i have 2 unknown slugs in my biocube. I wass able to finally get pica but cant post them yet but ill try to describe them. They look whitish with tan Marks ( kinds like a normal slug) but then has a hard plate on the back that looks like a light brick red. These slugs aren’t vibrant at all. I’ll post picks later today but are slugs good? Should I take them out? Or wait to see if someone knows what they are? I’ve tries to look and can find anything like them.

Thanks

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just turned on the lights and this is what i found on my coral frag

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well these brown thing went from 15-40 in 2 weeks there popping up everywhere
im thinking there a kind of Aiptasia Anemone,i thought they where brown buttons at first
any help i would appreciate
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I recently got a new piece of live rock and it is starting to come alive and things are moving. I would like to know what the yellow circle is surrounding and the blue circle is surrounded a pile of "dust" from within the rock. Something seems to be burrowing in it and it looks to have tentacles that remind me of spider web fibers. Any suggestions would help and photos of what they can turn into or be. Thank-you