Something on my rock...

[canyoubelieveit]

I was looking at my LR and I noticed something as it was opening up, really neat to watch. I am cycling my tank right now. I have 10 pounds of LR in my tank for 2 weeks now and this is my second ten pounds. I am just getting a little LR at a time so I don't raise the ammonia level to high as to kill my rock.

I noticed something on my new piece and here is the best pic I could get... it's really small. I only have fluorescent lighting and I was told that now corals would grow... but this looks like it might be a polyp of some sort... I wish I could get a clearer picture!

It looked like a stick and then it opened like a flower.

 

[Evanish]

bad picture but could be a feather duster.

 

[jflowers]

Sounds (and blurily looks ) like a tube worm, my LR had loads when I first got it, now has even more! I also have a new addition (after having the LR for four months, don't you just love LR) that looks like a crab claw, very small (2-3mm) and opens and closes.

Jon

 

[canyoubelieveit]

I've looked around at liveaquaria.com and it is indeed a feather duster... it's about 1/4" tall...very small.

 

[sammydee]

Try using the manual focus on your digital camera... looks to me as if your camera is focusing on the glass of the tank so everything in it looks fuzzy.

 

[Eelzor]

fro the blurry picture it definatly seems to be a feather duster. From your description it seems to be one. See this photo of a feather duster on live rock - is it like this one?

HTH

 

[canyoubelieveit]

That's the one! Thanks for providing a clearer picture... in the mean time, I'll try to work out my camera problems
I don't have any fish in my tank yet... anything I should do to help the feather duster?