My Wife Thinks It Is A Popcorn Kernel

[ccombs]

Ok,

My wife and I don't really like popcorn too much and don't have it in the house, that was more of a joke. I am colorblind so this ID was difficult for me. I have gotten really familiar with the standard hitchhikers, but I am struggling with this one. From a distance it appears to be bubble algae kind of. I pulled it out of the tank and you will see that it splits open and has a little seed thing inside, almost like an egg. Any ideas?

 

[Ron Reefman]

I don't know what it is. Hows that for an honest answer?

But I have questions:
was it soft and slimy or did it have a 'skin' like bubble algae?
Did it ever move in the tank (other than being blown around by the water flow)?

And lets try to get some help: #ReefSquad

 

[Flippers4pups]

Could be a sand grain inside a bubble algae.

 

[Big G]

@KJ

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

Is it flat? Does it move?

 

[ccombs]

I don't know what it is. Hows that for an honest answer?

But I have questions:
was it soft and slimy or did it have a 'skin' like bubble algae?
Did it ever move in the tank (other than being blown around by the water flow)?

And lets try to get some help: #ReefSquad

It was hard, like a popcorn kernel and had a skin that peeled off. The skin was kind of like when you crack open a peanut and there is still that skin around it that you pull off.

I never saw it move, it just appeared.

 

[ccombs]

Is it flat? Does it move?

It is egg shaped, does not move.

 

[fish farmer]

It looks like it came apart in two pieces....like a bivalve.

 

[ccombs]

It looks like it came apart in two pieces....like a bivalve.

I cracked to open lol. It was one hard piece and I poked at it with my glass scraper.

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

Do you have any snails in the tank? It could possibly be a snail egg if it's small.

 

[ccombs]

Do you have any snails in the tank? It could possibly be a snail egg if it's small.

No snails in tank. I recently got some Chaeto from someone and it could have come in with theirs.

 

[Hemmdog]

I’m confused by the skin part. Are you sure it wasn’t just some algae or something on a baby oyster? “Seed” could be the start of a pearl? Have I been watching to many Disney movies?

 

[reef lover]

Im thinking a bivalve as well...

 

[samnaz]

I agree, tiny bivalve. I have tons of em.

 

[DSC reef]

Could be a sand grain inside a bubble algae.

I agree with this, I don't think it's a bivalve. It has a perfect center.

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

I agree, bubble algae was my next thought after ruling out the snails.

 

[samnaz]

When I get home this evening I’ll get photos of the tiny bivalves in my tank that look identical to the ones in your photos.

Here’s a photo of one from lionfishlair.com hitchhiker guide.

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

A bivalve usually has two symmetrical halves of the valve which I'm not seeing in the OPs pictures. We have had quite a few bivalves come in on live rock which lived and grew in our tanks over the years.

 

[Mastiffsrule]

I know, I know,

But, You didn’t drop anything in there or someone else in house , pistachio? You eat those, try tasting it;Joyful

 

[reef lover]

If yoy look closely at this pic you can see when he broke it he didnt break it between the halves making 2 equal sides he broke only part of one side. I stick with bivalve...