Interesting Egg ID - with cilia??

[MayerKT]

i have pretty good handle on what snail eggs look like - I've seen them in various forms....but never quite like this. On the front glass - 3 inches from the top. It is definitely an egg-ish sack, but with irregular edges, and two very distinct cilia extending from one side. These two cilia measure 3-4 inches, and blow freely in the current. In return each string has many cilia.

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Any ideas? I'm intrigued.

No fish or corals yet - inhabitants are peppermint srimp, minthrax crab, cerith, nerite, nassarius, dwarf cerith, stomatella & various hermits, with live rock.

[joejoe1055]

it might be some sort of jellyfish
thats just a guess and i'm wondering as well

[MARINECRITTERS]

Ctenophore?

[MARINECRITTERS]

Here is a pic

[SushiGirl]

Ctenophore?

Yep. Never seen the rest of one before!

[MayerKT]

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS!!! Wicked awesome. Even more wicked awesome to learn something new :). I was watching it this evening and thought I saw a tentacle retract.....so I blew some detritus off of the live rock and lo and behold - it was pulling stuff in like crazy!

Thank you everyone!

[SushiGirl]

It's funny, someone else was asking what it was the other day, but of course they only saw the cilia. I should find that thread & show them this :lmao:.