Interesting things you found in your Reef Tank

[J1a]

How about this?

 

[Costareefer]

Dwarf octopus

 

[Alaeriel]

A Jellyfish.
Made a thread about the little blue beastie hoping to identify him XD

 

[Kristy0813]

Found this cool Cowrie one night while watching my tank. Had no idea what he was or that I even had it. Super cool to watch.

 

[FruiTee]

A Jellyfish.
Made a thread about the little blue beastie hoping to identify him XD

Looks like a Cassiopea "upside down jelly fish" I see them a lot by our aquarium here in South Africa. Do you use NSW (Natural Sea Water)?

 

[FruiTee]

Found this cool Cowrie one night while watching my tank. Had no idea what he was or that I even had it. Super cool to watch.

I'd freak out if I see a shiny butt sticking out my live rock

 

[thesticklady]

Colonial tunicates living under a chalice. I was pretty amazed.

 

[Hans-Werner]

The strangest things I have found in reef aquaria where microorganisms.

This is most likely a labyrinthulomycete, a colony of spindle shaped protists. Sometimes also other reef aquarists have observed or photographed similar organisms on their aquarium windows. For size comparison see the small copepods in the first image.

These are microscopic images of a strange protist which I cannont relate to anything I know. Very small heliozoa like cells transformed into amoeboid cells with a flagellum and swam away with incredible speed.

If you know anyone who might have an idea ... maybe a protistologist ...

 

[Paul B]

 

[Hans-Werner]

Another strange protist that does not compare to anything I have previously seen in freshwater

Condylostoma, a ciliate which reminded me of a whale filterfeeding on plankton

 

[brandon429]

@90's reefer

i tend to look at background details in pics posted as much or more than the focal point of the pic

for you to have that system running long enough to produce that coral from its tiny spec and not have algae whiskers on the rocks, or cyano pockets in the corner of the tank (actually quite clean details) and the rocks are just reef pigment colors like coral and coralline with zero algae dotting around is impressive. You have maintained oligotrophic clean high feed reef water there and corals love it and I can’t see a speck of bad algae. Said in the style of boomhauer: that dang reef might clean man look like dang good reef off the Internet click click click dot good reef

 

[thesticklady]

 

[AlgaeBarn]

Not something i found, but something I found out, was how long a mouth could be from this snail.


when it was feeding time they came up and I fed them by hand.

was amazing

 

[jpil]

I have a 3 of these mini sea hares, they don’t seem to multiply, same three have been around for going on 6 months since I noticed them. Only way in was from a small piece of live rock from Tropicorium.

 

[Paul B]

 

[Subsea]

Paul,
Is the fish marveling at what it laid?

 

[Paul B]

Yes Sub, I think it was the clown gobi.

 

[AltitudeAquarium]

After much research and help from another reefer. This is a scutus that showed up from an alien hitchhiker. Ha ha. Paul B. At least it was not a hammer coral.

 

[FruiTee]

How did a chicken get into your tank to even lay an egg assuming it's a chicken egg, what came first the fish or the egg

 

[TnFishwater98]

Forgot the name of it. But I’ll look it up again.