Jawfish, Shrimp/Goby Pairs, and Picture ID       1/25/19
Good Morning Bob,
Please see attached photos but I was wondering if the sand in the tank was too coarse for either a shrimp/goby pair or for Jawfish.
<It is not too coarse. Should work fine w/ the rubble et al. here>
The sand is fine overall but with a lot of rubble and broken sea shells.
Also one of the pictures has some type of tiny shrimp I was hoping you could help identify.
<Not from this pic, no>
Kind of looks like a tiny Mantis shrimp and there are three of them in the tank.
<Do keep your eyes open... IF you're starting to miss other livestock, trapping may be in order... (See WWM), or at the worst, systematically dismantling your rock work, tank to remove them... IF they are Stomatopods; start causing trouble.>
In the picture of the sand I was wondering if you knew what those black stick things are on the right side of the picture. They are hollow and looks like some type of tube.
<Yes; appear to be some type/species of Featherduster, tubeworm>
The green algae on the left is in one of those tubes. Do you know of any type of organism from the Gulf of Mexico that would have green tentacles like that as I assume it's some type of algae growing from the tube?
<Looks to be a Green... perhaps a Chlorodesmis species... hopefully controllable... not Derbesia or... Bryopsis>
Thanks for taking the time to answer and hope you have a great day. P.S. Are you going to be at Reef Palooza in Orlando this year, I believe it's sometime in April? Jason
<Don't know; but I would. I thought the folks were going to ask me to speak there last year.
Cheers, Bob Fenner>