Reef safe??

[lopez052308]

Hey everyone learning all the hitchhikers slowly. Are these guys reef safe? Or helpful?
sorry about the pictures there both really small.

thank you

 

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One is a bristle star, reef safe the other not so sure

 

[MERKEY]

1st one could be a few different things...how large is it?

2nd is a brittle star...good cuc

 

[Tired]

Can you get a clearer photo of the first critter? Alternately, try looking up "cirolanid isopod" and "sphaeromatidae isopod", see if either one looks right.

 

[lopez052308]

1st one could be a few different things...how large is it?

2nd is a brittle star...good cuc

 

[Tired]

Another possibility: sand skaters. There's a good up-close photo in the second post of this thread.

Very flat isopods (sphaeromatidae?), and is this one of the OK asterina-types?

Check out what came off a new frag I just got. There were also a couple dozen of those reddish-brown flatworms that can overpopulate and blot out the light for your corals, but I sucked all the flatworms out and coral dipped the frag. Most of these guys came off from some vigorous pipetting with...

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[MERKEY]

Like @Tired Said possibly some sort of isopod.

 

[lopez052308]

got him under a small microscope

 

[lopez052308]

Any idea?

 

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got him under a small microscope

Yeah that looks just like the sand skater that @Tired shared

 

[lopez052308]

Ok thank you guys

 

[lopez052308]

So I should put him back in correct?

 

[Tired]

Oh, yep- that's one of the scavenging isopods. It's basically an aquatic pillbug/roly-poly, or, really, pillbugs are the land version of these. Pop him back in the tank.