Anyone help me identify this critter?

[Tieg]

He doesn't do anything bad...just sort of hangs out there. We got him as a hitchiker when we were first setting up the tank.

 

[120gallons]

Is it flat or like a flower?

 

[ret25yo]

wow stumped me...

 

[Boomer]

Are you talking about the thing in the middle, that resembles an anemone. reminds me of a Telactis sp We need a better pic

Telmactis
http://www.pbase.com/imagine/image/55143131

 

[Boomer]

This in the middle

 

[Tieg]

Its flat up against the rock...and fast when you shine a light on it at night.

 

[Boomer]

Oh crap, I think I see now MAYBE what you mean kinda. And you said it moves fast. Sounds like a sea spider.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=sea+spider&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

I forgot a Pycnogonida

 

[Tieg]

Except its attached to the rock....I mean fast as in it sucks in sometimes into the rock but then gradually comes out. It hasn't moved from the same spot on the rock in 3 months since we first noticed it.

 

[Boomer]

:lol: You keep changing things on us Tieg. Get us a better pic

 

[Sparks]

http://www.rvgould.uconn.edu/week2_files/image033.jpg
sea spiders are scary.

 

[Herefishyfishy]

No way a spider since it shows 12 legs, Arachnids have 8. It is a cnidarian of some sort as in coral polyp type creature, or a worm. I have no idea other than that.

 

[sihaya]

No way a spider since it shows 12 legs, Arachnids have 8. It is a cnidarian of some sort as in coral polyp type creature, or a worm. I have no idea other than that.

Ditto.. or some kind of anemone. What happens when you poke it?

 

[Boomer]

Yup , I never thought to count the "legs". So, we are back to sqaure 1

 

[Tieg]

Let me get home and I'll see what I can do about a better pic

 

[Sparks]

Baby Beaded Anemone?

 

[krisfal]

What happens when you poke it?

ROFLMAO, this question made me picture a couple young boys squatting down looking at a bug. First boy "What happens when you poke it?" Second boy "I'm not going to poke it, you poke it".

Sorry my sense of humor is likely frozen, I've been up here in Canada for 3 days now, boy it is cold, eh.

 

[sihaya]

ROFLMAO, this question made me picture a couple young boys squatting down looking at a bug. First boy "What happens when you poke it?" Second boy "I'm not going to poke it, you poke it".

LOL... reminds me of that Far Side cartoon with the two alien kids holding a jar with two astronauts in it saying "shake it and see if they'll fight."

 

[Tieg]

Ok...here is the best pic I can get:

As for poking it....no thanks

 

[Boomer]

Well, that is an anemone, as in Aiptasia. We kill those things :lol:

 

[Herefishyfishy]

Need to get one of those Aiptasia eating spiders:badgrin: