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nfrench2100 · Mar 14, 2018

While I have seen quite a few different feather dusters, I have never seen one quite like this...

Smack dab in the middle, is a long (tentacle) with a white ball on it...

Any help on specific ID would be much appreciated!

TIA!

Robink · Mar 14, 2018

Me neither and I have tons of them. following.

Gareth elliott · Mar 15, 2018

Are the cilia on the bottom the base?

Gareth elliott · Mar 15, 2018

Stalked crinoid or sea lily?

nfrench2100 · Mar 15, 2018

Gareth elliott said:
Are the cilia on the bottom the base?

They are all the way around it. They kind of meet at a point at the top.

nfrench2100 · Mar 15, 2018

Here’s a couple shots I just got with the lights on

nfrench2100 · Mar 15, 2018

Any other thoughts guys?? I’m dying to know what this is

nfrench2100 · Mar 15, 2018

Here’s a video too [emoji6]

Someone’s gotta know what this is

nfrench2100 · Mar 16, 2018

norfolkgarden · Mar 17, 2018

nfrench2100 said:
BUMP

No idea from the pic.

It's definitely not an aptasia, zoa/paly, mini white feather duster ??

Following. [emoji848]

norfolkgarden · Mar 17, 2018

norfolkgarden said:
No idea from the pic.

It's definitely not an aptasia, zoa/paly, mini white feather duster ??

Following. [emoji848]

Or baby rock anemone??

nfrench2100 · Mar 17, 2018

norfolkgarden said:
No idea from the pic.

It's definitely not an aptasia, zoa/paly, mini white feather duster ??

Following. [emoji848]

Thanks for your reply norfolk. It’s definitely got all the traits of a feather duster. But somethings just, different. It’s killing me that my post has had literally 150 or so views, yet no one knows....

Idk if I posted it in the wrong section/forum, or if people are just plain stumped [emoji848]

nfrench2100 · Mar 20, 2018

#mods can you move this thread to the Hitchhiker thread?

Just left my LFS, and not even the owners knew what it was...

I need help being guided in the right direction

SAPPER · Mar 20, 2018

I think its a sabellid tube worm. And that tube with the ball could be an operculum. So look closely at it and put something near it so it closes up. Then see if that ball covers the opening of its tube when it goes in.

SAPPER · Mar 20, 2018

I seen a pink one ages ago and its operculum was shaped like a cone.

Maggie321 · Mar 20, 2018

It's the male. The females will occasionally have a jelly bag around the tube opening full of white dots. That's the egg mass.

reef lover · Mar 21, 2018

Hmmm...fonda have to do some research there..I always thought as @SAPPER said it was like a snails operculum and closed the tube behind it.....

nfrench2100 · Mar 21, 2018

SAPPER said:
I think its a sabellid tube worm. And that tube with the ball could be an operculum. So look closely at it and put something near it so it closes up. Then see if that ball covers the opening of its tube when it goes in.

That looks strikingly close! But I’m still not convinced. I did take another video last night, and did what you recommended..

Thoughts?