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11/22/2015, 03:12 PM | #1 |
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Possibly tiny octopus?!?
I noticed about four or so of these little guys on my front glass. I couldn't get a good enough pic from the font but there are eight tentacles each with their own tentacle that has a small "ball" at the end. Will somebody please identify this for me?
This pic is from the side panel looking at the front panel of glass. |
11/22/2015, 05:41 PM | #2 |
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Or is it a Jelly?
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11/23/2015, 09:24 AM | #3 | |
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11/23/2015, 09:29 AM | #4 |
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I think realistically it is probably somewhere between a hydroid and a standard jellyfish. Never seen anything like that however.
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I got the rock from the guy I purchased the tank from, the rock is approximately 7 months old and it has a ton of organisms on it. For size comparison all of the little white dots around it are copepods. |
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11/23/2015, 05:59 PM | #6 |
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Well then that eliminates the octopus idea since it's not fresh out of the open ocean. That's a type of hydroid IMO. They eat copepods, scrape those buggers off the glass everytime you see em. They'll probably go away on their own/not be an issue though.
If the population explodes you may have to do something but I think that's rare. I had some in my frag tank and they went away within a month probably. Had another type in my display that also went away quickly. An octopus would've been cooler! |
11/24/2015, 02:22 AM | #7 |
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Not entirely true. There was another guy on here that had an octopus come in on a frag he picked up from his LFS. Unlikely, but totally possible.
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