MORE CRITTERS????

[mah0031]

Identify please one just about center other couple tubes sticking up retract if touched ,other left hand side of the screen
Thanks

 

[Lionfish Lair]

That's a tunicate.

 

[mah0031]

All of them ? the ones to the side look different or are they juveniles and good or bad?? Thanks

 

[Lionfish Lair]

This is the tunicate.

 

[mah0031]

Ok on the right hand side of the photo between the rock and the coral I have something else going on? Is tunicate good or bad

 

[Lionfish Lair]

I believe that to be a different type of tunicate.

Tunicates in our tanks are fantastic. Well, they don't become a nuisance and typically die.... if one would call that fantastic. LOL! Some are simply gorgeous and you just enjoy them until they disappear.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

The ones to the right are the "Colonial Tunicates". They have this little common community going on. They all can look crazy different from each other.

Then there's the "Solitary Tunicates", like the one to the left.

http://www.scienceisart.com/B_Tunicates/xSolitary/Ciona-1.jpg

 

[mah0031]

Thank you so much!

 

[Lionfish Lair]

 

[Maritimer]

Tunicates are sometimes called "sea grapes" or "sea squirts". There are free-floating, planktonic ones as well as the colonial and solitary ones you have. Fascinating creatures, partly because unlike most inverts ... they're chordates.

Weird.

~Bruce

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Check out this guy's. That's just art. http://reef2reef.com/threads/tunicate-eggish-shaped-growing-around-zoas.254971/