Killing my torch

[chubbyhubby]

Hi can anyone help my torch has been doing really well but today one head come out of the bone . After looking I found this in the side of the bone . Did this cause if to come out

 

[Lionfish Lair]

It's a Flabelligeridae. That shouldn't be damaging anything.

 

[chubbyhubby]

Do you have any idear why the torch would drop a head

 

[pickupman66]

I have recently learned the hard way. they just freaking do that.

 

[chubbyhubby]

I have put the head on a hole on lr and in the last half hour it has opened up . Will it live ??????

 

[Myka]

Hi can anyone help my torch has been doing really well but today one head come out of the bone . After looking I found this in the side of the bone . Did this cause if to come out

Do those filaments retreat ever? Do the filaments ever open and close? I ask because it looks more like a barnacle to me, which there are lots of species. Cirripedia sp has lots of photos to look at if you Google it.

Euphyllia blowing heads off is usually an alkalinity issue.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

You can see in the pictures that there is that psychedelic reflective look, that belongs to the Flabelligeridae.

 

[chubbyhubby]

Hi my kaya my alkalinity is reading 8.2wich is what it always seems to be between 8.1 and 8.4. I was thinking it may be my clowns seem to of started hosting my torch the last couple of months.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Yes, I agree.... hosting clowns could definitely the cause.

 

[chubbyhubby]

Thinking of getting an anemone but not much room in tank and not shore what type

 

[Lionfish Lair]

I don't know anything about anemones.

 

[Myka]

You can see in the pictures that there is that psychedelic reflective look, that belongs to the Flabelligeridae.

Some species of barnacles show that iridescent sheen as well. In the photo it almost looks like there is the beak-shaped opening of a barnacle. Plus, Flabelligeridae typically look like a single tuft rather than the split crown like a barnacle to give a flower-type shape.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Some species of barnacles show that iridescent sheen as well. In the photo it almost looks like there is the beak-shaped opening of a barnacle. Plus, Flabelligeridae typically look like a single tuft rather than the split crown like a barnacle to give a flower-type shape.

then it would have a shell that opens and closes and and actively fan the current for food if it were a barnacle.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

They don't look to be to be arranged they way they are with most barnacles. Usually barnies are weighted more heavily on one side or the other verses being arranged in a symmetrical circle.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

They don't look to be to be arranged they way they are with most barnacles. Usually barnies are weighted more heavily on one side or the other verses being arranged in a symmetrical circle.

like knuckles that retract as they grab food and pull it in. different mouth i assume, more like a clam kinda. the Flajuebduskderhdu are more like a tube worm no?.

what scientist made up that name> DRtoomanysaltinesandnowater?

 

[Lionfish Lair]

LOL!!!!

Flabs are more "hole worms" as they don't make a tube, but live in holes and crevices and under things.... they do move in and out a little and adjust themselves a little.

You look at a bunch of different things to come to a conclusion....

Do they have a psychedelic filaments?
Is the thing beating rhythmically (it's hard to get a picture with the filaments (cirri) extended with with a regular camera.... especially twice as above)
Is it arranged like a scoop or symmetrically round?
Is there an operculum?

That sort of thing...

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

LOL!!!!

Flabs are more "hole worms" as they don't make a tube, but live in holes and crevices and under things.... they do move in and out a little and adjust themselves a little.

You look at a bunch of different things to come to a conclusion....

Do they have a psychedelic filaments?
Is the thing beating rhythmically (it's hard to get a picture with the filaments (cirri) extended with with a regular camera.... especially twice as above)
Is it arranged like a scoop or perfectly round?
Is there an operculum?

That sort of thing...

Yup

 

[chubbyhubby]

Ok I've tryed to get better pictures but looks like it's in a tube

 

[Myka]

Ok I've tryed to get better pictures but looks like it's in a tube

Poke it so it retracts and then take a pic. That would EASILY identify it as a barnacle or something else. You can take a pic further away and crop it after and maybe get better focus.

 

[chubbyhubby]

Only trouble is I cand get to it unless I move rocks and stuff