Hi, thought I'ld share this with you, sorry if I ramble.
My tank is a 75 oceanic. Its been up for slightly more than 4 years. The first 3 years, I ran it as a FOWLR, but with only reef friendly inhabitants. In the last year with a lighting upgrade I've started to convert to a reef. There are now two BTA's, some ricordea, polyps, zooanthids, montipora etc. Lighting is a T5 fixture. Scopas tang, Flame Hawk, & Maroon Clown are the primary fish residents. There are some crabs (hermits and green), and some snails (turbo, cerith etc.) as well. It is mostly bare glass under the live rock, with some crushed aragonite substrate out in front of the rock structure.
With the exception of some polyp rock, I've added no new live rock since the tank was started. It was originally started with a mixture of about 100lbs of premium asian rock (tonga branch, fijii, kaelin etc.)
So any way, I decide to dose the tank with some bionic at 2:30am. Being slightly out of at, the measuring cup goes flying out of my hand into or behind the tank. Now I'm looking around for the liitle clear cup when I notice this new rock on the bottom of my tank. Upon closer inspection, the rock is slowly moving like a catepillar. It is brownish in color though thats hard to really tell with the lights out. It has some spikey things coming out of it - kinda of like the skin of a 'chocolate chip star'. It is up too two inches thick, and the visible portion about four inches long.
I grab the camera and start flahing away, and put on some actinics. to help. It starts retreating, and most of the pictures didn't come out clear, but I'll post a couple. I suspect it is some type of sea cucumber.
The surprising thing though is how something this large goes undetected this long. And I've done plenty of surprise night time viewing inspections in the past. But then again i'm starting to hear clicking sounds after lights out, but that will be another story.....
In the pictures, the unidentified crawling thing is the brownish finger looking things sticking out from the rocks in the bottom center. I think its a cuke, any comments are appreciated.
My tank is a 75 oceanic. Its been up for slightly more than 4 years. The first 3 years, I ran it as a FOWLR, but with only reef friendly inhabitants. In the last year with a lighting upgrade I've started to convert to a reef. There are now two BTA's, some ricordea, polyps, zooanthids, montipora etc. Lighting is a T5 fixture. Scopas tang, Flame Hawk, & Maroon Clown are the primary fish residents. There are some crabs (hermits and green), and some snails (turbo, cerith etc.) as well. It is mostly bare glass under the live rock, with some crushed aragonite substrate out in front of the rock structure.
With the exception of some polyp rock, I've added no new live rock since the tank was started. It was originally started with a mixture of about 100lbs of premium asian rock (tonga branch, fijii, kaelin etc.)
So any way, I decide to dose the tank with some bionic at 2:30am. Being slightly out of at, the measuring cup goes flying out of my hand into or behind the tank. Now I'm looking around for the liitle clear cup when I notice this new rock on the bottom of my tank. Upon closer inspection, the rock is slowly moving like a catepillar. It is brownish in color though thats hard to really tell with the lights out. It has some spikey things coming out of it - kinda of like the skin of a 'chocolate chip star'. It is up too two inches thick, and the visible portion about four inches long.
I grab the camera and start flahing away, and put on some actinics. to help. It starts retreating, and most of the pictures didn't come out clear, but I'll post a couple. I suspect it is some type of sea cucumber.
The surprising thing though is how something this large goes undetected this long. And I've done plenty of surprise night time viewing inspections in the past. But then again i'm starting to hear clicking sounds after lights out, but that will be another story.....
In the pictures, the unidentified crawling thing is the brownish finger looking things sticking out from the rocks in the bottom center. I think its a cuke, any comments are appreciated.
