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Worm Spawning 2/9/04
Good evening Anthony?
<and to you
Morgan :)>
Hope your life is salty and wet. ;]
<Oh, so many
wonder responses to that open door comment.>
I wrote about my
flame scallop a while back, I've had it for a year now and its still
happy and growing.
<good to hear... any ideas why that you
might share with us?>
So I bought a big white one to keep it
company.
<ughhh... you know, they say that lightning never
strikes the same place twice>
hehehe Its a good thing I'm an
experienced reefer eh? lol
<ahhh... or the other side of that
coin is "even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes">
Well this
evening I turned the lights back on after about two hours to finish
fragging an Acropora and clean the glass. After an hour or so I
noticed white cloudy stuff coming from the area of my Anacropora. I
lifted up the colony and found that my rock boring worm? was
spawning.
<very cool>
Pretty darn sure, it didn't look like
rock dust and the worm went at it for a long time. I always figured
I had some sort of worm in the rock because it would leave tube-like
stuff (like thin feather duster tubing) around the holes and
underneath other rocks. I tried to id it on the web but I couldn't
find anything close to what it is. So here I am... ;]
If you
look at the close up picture you can see a hole with xenia close by,
you can see 2 tentacles that are banded brown and white. Well I
hope you can see them...
<not clear in the <1% of the image
that they occupy <G>. A closer/full-frame shot would help if
possible>
Anyway, this guy has 5 brown and white banded tentacles
surrounding a mouth?, like a calcareous tube worm mouth. I figure
this is some type of Serpulid? worm, but I've never seen one with 5
tentacles. Hope you enjoy the sexy pictures. ;] Sweet dreams!
Morgan Mok
<the event is really neat. And much appreciation for
sharing the pics and report. I wish I could be of more help with the
ID, but it would be nothing more than a guess at this point. Do send
a better photo is possible and I'll give it the old college try :)
Anthony> | |  |
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