darthray
04-25-2004, 12:15 AM
Ok,
I spotted on my live rock crawling around a small aprox 1 cm long insect like thing. From what I saw of it, for a very short period of time, looked like it was a small segmented body, like a centipede, legs coming out of the segments though not many legs, a small head with what looked like antennae forward of its head. It had been running around the top of a large piece of LR, and then, when a clown came to see it , it crawled into a small crevice, then when the clown left it scurried off to hide.
What is it? I dont think its a mantis, though I need to look again to be sure. Its sort of a whitish color. I didnt see the shrimp tail.
I have a 60 gal tank 1 peppermint shrimp, one clown, and a couple of bubble tip anemones. Found the bristle worms and those guys are getting to be about 3 to 6 inches long the ones that come out, but the insect, or whatever it was has me stumped.
I guess the natural progression would be to also ask, if someone is familiar with it, is it safe? and is there a natural way to get rid of it, like getting a 6 line wrasse, knowing they seem to like bristle worms.
Ray
I spotted on my live rock crawling around a small aprox 1 cm long insect like thing. From what I saw of it, for a very short period of time, looked like it was a small segmented body, like a centipede, legs coming out of the segments though not many legs, a small head with what looked like antennae forward of its head. It had been running around the top of a large piece of LR, and then, when a clown came to see it , it crawled into a small crevice, then when the clown left it scurried off to hide.
What is it? I dont think its a mantis, though I need to look again to be sure. Its sort of a whitish color. I didnt see the shrimp tail.
I have a 60 gal tank 1 peppermint shrimp, one clown, and a couple of bubble tip anemones. Found the bristle worms and those guys are getting to be about 3 to 6 inches long the ones that come out, but the insect, or whatever it was has me stumped.
I guess the natural progression would be to also ask, if someone is familiar with it, is it safe? and is there a natural way to get rid of it, like getting a 6 line wrasse, knowing they seem to like bristle worms.
Ray