Transparent Ghost Shape Creature Eating our Copepods
Yesterday, in the refuguim, I noticed these "creatures" attacking all of the copepods… These ghost shaped things when moving at the copepods to eat – lift their upper portion of their body like a balloon and catch the copepods. They look just like a cartoon ghost [or a Pepperidge Farm goldfish cracker] when eating as they slide on the glass — they move at quite a quick rate eating one copepod per second!
When not eating, they look long or circular with the two "points" of the tail end still clearly visible. These things are approximately 3/16" long and 1/16" when not in their eating movement frenzy.
They look white in the pic, but under close look or magnification, they are quite transparent, with a yellow-orange center [must be the stomach - and full of our copepods!
].
When not eating, they look long or circular with the two "points" of the tail end still clearly visible. These things are approximately 3/16" long and 1/16" when not in their eating movement frenzy.
They look white in the pic, but under close look or magnification, they are quite transparent, with a yellow-orange center [must be the stomach - and full of our copepods!
].
I used a turkey baster and sucked about 22 of these things out… put them in the vase and took the pic this morning…
Any help to identify this alien ghost worm/jelly/thing will be greatly appreciated.
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Transparent Ghost Shape Creature Eating our Copepods