Cant ID these worms?

Kronk · #1 01-02-2009, 12:44 AM

Its definately not aiptasia I have had a few of those pop up over the past couple years and joes juice them. These dont grow like aiptasia and the tentacles are rigid.

chandigz · #2 01-02-2009, 02:25 AM

might be a type of "worm cucumber"

o.c.d. · #3 01-03-2009, 03:04 AM

For it to definitely not be aiptasia, it sure looks like one. Maybe it's a worm that ate a aiptasia, liked it and now disguises itself as one. Some type of ambush predator

I now I'm awful, really though more than one type of aiptasia

Kronk · #4 01-03-2009, 06:03 AM

Well at first i thought it was some kind of Sandworm straight out of Dune after my damn spice...
I didnt realize there was more than one type of aiptasia? It isnt like any I have ever seen. And the fact that they only come out at night or in dark spots. I always thought aiptasia required light which is why they can be "cooked" by depriving them of it?

o.c.d. · #5 01-03-2009, 03:48 PM

These little guys are very resilant they can live in deprived conditions. The one you have is mabe Bartholomea annulata (Fam:Aiptasiidae) even that type has many different shape and they change color throughout the year. http://www.poppe-images.com/expediti...id=1123&max=51

Kronk · #6 01-03-2009, 04:26 PM

Thanks for the link, that looks really similar. So it appears I have noctural glass anemones hahaha.