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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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