Unidentified Creature in my live rock

wntsom4 · Nov 15, 2016

posted to all my local channels no one can identify this.

Described as a crescent roll shaped shell that splits wide wise not long wise like a clam. Appears to have what looks like a shrimp inside it. 2 white eyes and little legs like what's on a cleaner shrimp

It's back inside a creves so lighting is hard to see have photos and video.

Let me know if you have any idea what this is. I have another picture but won't let me upload it yet working on it

wntsom4 · Nov 15, 2016

Heres soem details

wntsom4 · Nov 15, 2016

Lionfish Lair · Nov 15, 2016

I can't see the video, but doesn't that sort of "shut/react" when you disturb it?

I need to dig around in my PM a ways back, but I have a video you're going to like.....

Don't worry, it's nothing bad..... I didn't think I would get the chance to see this again...cool.... brb.

wntsom4 · Nov 15, 2016

wntsom4 · Nov 15, 2016

Lionfish Lair said:
I can't see the video, but doesn't that sort of "shut/react" when you disturb it?

I need to dig around in my PM a ways back, but I have a video you're going to like.....

Don't worry, it's nothing bad..... I didn't think I would get the chance to see this again...cool.... brb.

yes it closes like a clam would getting to close to it but just in the opposite direction you would normally see a shell close.

I posted the youtube link for the video maybe you can see it now??

Lionfish Lair · Nov 15, 2016

Oh sorry, it's my device that hates video... I should have said that...

Take a peak and see if it looks familiar....

wntsom4 · Nov 15, 2016

it loos like that but's not that fast... when it closed it looks like the shell outline... is there a name for it?

Lionfish Lair · Nov 15, 2016

Yup, I know what your look at there. It's a feather duster worm and those aren't eyes, but a reflection of some structures. I'm digging around to find it in my stuff.

Go ahead and touch it... I promise it's safe.

It may take me a bit to find the information I'm looking for, but I assure you, it's nothing to worry about. I KNOW it looks nothing like a feather duster in those pictures and you may think I'm nuts, but by this time tomorrow I'll have to convinced.

ReefQueen · Nov 16, 2016

Following along because I wanna hear how Renee is going to convince us it is a feather duster lol. That thing is crazy looking!

Lionfish Lair · Nov 16, 2016

Go touch it....

LetItReef · Nov 16, 2016

Freaky. Looks like Bat.

Lionfish Lair · Nov 16, 2016

The little center structures that kind of look like a mantis shrimp or a coral hermit, that's actually the mouth and tentacles...

*cough*go touch it*cough*

wntsom4 · Nov 16, 2016

Its not in a spot I can get too at all to try to touch... Our tank is built in and it's viewable from 2 sides....

wntsom4 · Nov 16, 2016

Living Room Side, it's actually in the hole you see in the rock in front of the urchin... This photo is 4 years old... The rock is much more cultured now