Bacteria atbp.? Please Identify
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:26 pmit's breathing... it's alive!
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Bacteria atbp.? Please Identify
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:26 pmPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:29 pmPahabol... hermit ba? OK ba ito?
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:59 pmHi jomer,
The first two pictures above are both examples of colonial tunicates. These are common hitchikers on live rock. They are filter-feeders, subsisting on plankton and even on bacteria in the water column. These are among the common cryptic creatures growing in and under live rock, which help a lot in keeping your water clean. (You would be amazed at how much water turnover they actually perform. Because of that, a famous US aquarist Steve Tyree uses these types of creatures for "cryptic filtration" as part of a very-philosophically-different three-zone natural filtration system.)
Not too sure about the third picture. It could also be some form of Ascidian or Sea Tunicate or Sea Squirt (they all belong to the subphylum Urochordata, but these names are used interchangeably, depending on genus, without any logic
). Or they could be the beginnings of some soft coral?
Phil
The first two pictures above are both examples of colonial tunicates. These are common hitchikers on live rock. They are filter-feeders, subsisting on plankton and even on bacteria in the water column. These are among the common cryptic creatures growing in and under live rock, which help a lot in keeping your water clean. (You would be amazed at how much water turnover they actually perform. Because of that, a famous US aquarist Steve Tyree uses these types of creatures for "cryptic filtration" as part of a very-philosophically-different three-zone natural filtration system.)
Not too sure about the third picture. It could also be some form of Ascidian or Sea Tunicate or Sea Squirt (they all belong to the subphylum Urochordata, but these names are used interchangeably, depending on genus, without any logic
). Or they could be the beginnings of some soft coral?
Phil
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:13 pmPosted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:45 pmPosted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:56 pmRe: Bacteria atbp.? Please Identify
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