Hi all,
Last night, as I was observing my tank during lights out after a Devil's Lettuce sesh, I saw what I considered...some creepy critter sucking the life out of one of my snails.
Hold on snail...Mommy's coming to save you!
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Suspected Critter as seen in the awesome Critter ID thread here on R2R
"what the heck is that ?!!!"
"Get away from my snail!" - In hindsight, a wee bit of an overreaction
Timelapse of the worm drilling back into the sandbed
A little regretful that I f'd with it. But, it looks like it was healthy enough to drill back into the sandbed.
This morning, I couldn't see it anymore in that spot. But that could be because the tank is in its daytime cycle.
Any competing theories as to the critter ID as a Spaghetti Worm?
Cheers,
Kim
BTW, looks like I'll be doing some work for a researcher on Sponges and how they might be a linchpin species in water clarity. Maybe they are kind of like the "Beavers of the Estuaries"?
Anyways, anything other than looking at mammalian cells tends to be out of my area of expertise, but my kung fu in this instance is the technology used to look at sponge influent and effluent. Good times in my book.
Last night, as I was observing my tank during lights out after a Devil's Lettuce sesh, I saw what I considered...some creepy critter sucking the life out of one of my snails.
Hold on snail...Mommy's coming to save you!
{{{set up a quick video the tank session
}}}Suspected Critter as seen in the awesome Critter ID thread here on R2R
"what the heck is that ?!!!"
"Get away from my snail!" - In hindsight, a wee bit of an overreaction
Timelapse of the worm drilling back into the sandbed
A little regretful that I f'd with it. But, it looks like it was healthy enough to drill back into the sandbed.
This morning, I couldn't see it anymore in that spot. But that could be because the tank is in its daytime cycle.
Any competing theories as to the critter ID as a Spaghetti Worm?
Cheers,
Kim
BTW, looks like I'll be doing some work for a researcher on Sponges and how they might be a linchpin species in water clarity. Maybe they are kind of like the "Beavers of the Estuaries"?
Anyways, anything other than looking at mammalian cells tends to be out of my area of expertise, but my kung fu in this instance is the technology used to look at sponge influent and effluent. Good times in my book.
