b-towndoc
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
After almost 6 weeks of my LR being in there I would of thought I had seem most mobile organisms, but there are some new things today when I got home from work! Can anyone help me out with these:
Top left is actually two things:
1), one is the small snails attached to my snail there. Are these the parasitic Pyramid snails that I need to be worried about? Any ideas of what to do to get rid of them?
2) Just to the right of the snail is another snail looking organism with a very flat shell. Is this a chiton or some type of limpet? Odd that it has been in the tank for 6 weeks and this is the first time I have seen it! It is pretty dang good at munching on algae tho.
Top right:
The thing attached to the rock, I thought initially this was a dead sponge but it never fell off and actually is growing. Is this still a sponge or some sort of macro algae? Not the prettiest thing in the world, but if it is beneficial I am fine with it.
Bottom left:
This is just some starfish. I think they are astrea, but only reason I am asking now is b/c I seem to suddenly have about 30 of them everywhere. The have stayed off the zoas/ric/macro algae so far but if this is right, what are your thoughts on them?
Thanks!
Top left is actually two things:
1), one is the small snails attached to my snail there. Are these the parasitic Pyramid snails that I need to be worried about? Any ideas of what to do to get rid of them?
2) Just to the right of the snail is another snail looking organism with a very flat shell. Is this a chiton or some type of limpet? Odd that it has been in the tank for 6 weeks and this is the first time I have seen it! It is pretty dang good at munching on algae tho.
Top right:
The thing attached to the rock, I thought initially this was a dead sponge but it never fell off and actually is growing. Is this still a sponge or some sort of macro algae? Not the prettiest thing in the world, but if it is beneficial I am fine with it.
Bottom left:
This is just some starfish. I think they are astrea, but only reason I am asking now is b/c I seem to suddenly have about 30 of them everywhere. The have stayed off the zoas/ric/macro algae so far but if this is right, what are your thoughts on them?
Thanks!