After five years

[glc]

After five years in my saltwater world I still find things in my tank that amaze my simple little mind. Recently I have observed some of my brittle stars fluorecing with brilliant flashes of green. Like little green lighning bolt shooting down there legs. I have never heard of such activity from a brittle star in a tank or in the wild. Has anybody ever personally experiened this themselves? Or mayby ID the species?

For quite a while now I have noticed a couple of my tube worms excreting what I thought was a slime. I kept attempting to clean this slime out of my tank until I realized that the slime was acting as a food collection device. Kinda like a spiderweb. I observed the worm slowly pulling the long strands of slime back into the worms calcareous home after it had been saturated with floating particulate. Wow! I how have dubbed him "spider worm". Can anybody identify this speicies of worm or mayby its family.

I know, I know simple things for simple minds but I thought I would share anyway with hope that somebody might share some similiar experiences or there expertise.

Thanx G.L.C

 

[Satchmo]

The spider worm (lol) sounds like a vermatid gastropod. It's basically a sessile snail, not a worm at all. Very cool things, although they can bother corals with their webs if they're in a bad spot.

The price for that identification, BTW, will be one of your funky bioluminescent stars No idea on that one. That's just too cool.

 

[glc]

Thanx Satchmo I will do some research on my snail. As far as the brittle star I am not sure how to get to them. They live in the rock and never expose their center body just there legs. I would have to break apart the rock to get at them. Hopefully they will reproduce and produce a bunch of little ones.

G.L.C

 

[Satchmo]

I have a bunch of those mini-stars that wave tentacles from within the rock too. Never see them out in the open. Haven't seen the trippy light-up ones you have though. Let me know if you ever get an ID on them.