Hello everybody!
First post ever on this forum. Been keeping freshwater fish for a few years now and decided to start up a saltwater nano tank.
Today, Sunday the 11th, will mark 68 days since the initial setup. The initial cycle seems to be all complete as I have been reading 0 ammonia for the past 10 days. Current inhabitants are a blue leg hermit crab and an orchid dottyback.
Decided it is time to start looking to add corals and I picked up a mushroom, GSP, and a zoa frag. All of which I read and was led to believe are "hardy" and good starter corals.
I am doing a quarantine on the corals and upon inspection with a USB microscope I saw a tube next to one of the zoa frags. Sorry for the crudey resolution but it is all I have at the moment.
I am not sure if its a vermetid snail or some sort of feather duster. Without a better camera setup I can't tell if the brown blob that comes out of the tube is a mouth or feathers. I am not seeing a webbing being released. I circled it below in, of course, red. There is also black specs that move around in time lapse as if they are little buggers. I know there is no way to ID them at this resolution and scale but i am curious as to if I should do a Beyer dip and if my quarantine tank is now compromised and I need to start it over.
I also found a couple of what I think is aiptasia but I wouldn't mind second opinions .
Finally below is a camera shot showing the overview of the frag.
You can see the tube if you zoom in near the left most polyp and the aiptasia is near the bottom center.
Thanks in advance for all your input!
First post ever on this forum. Been keeping freshwater fish for a few years now and decided to start up a saltwater nano tank.
Today, Sunday the 11th, will mark 68 days since the initial setup. The initial cycle seems to be all complete as I have been reading 0 ammonia for the past 10 days. Current inhabitants are a blue leg hermit crab and an orchid dottyback.
Decided it is time to start looking to add corals and I picked up a mushroom, GSP, and a zoa frag. All of which I read and was led to believe are "hardy" and good starter corals.
I am doing a quarantine on the corals and upon inspection with a USB microscope I saw a tube next to one of the zoa frags. Sorry for the crudey resolution but it is all I have at the moment.
I am not sure if its a vermetid snail or some sort of feather duster. Without a better camera setup I can't tell if the brown blob that comes out of the tube is a mouth or feathers. I am not seeing a webbing being released. I circled it below in, of course, red. There is also black specs that move around in time lapse as if they are little buggers. I know there is no way to ID them at this resolution and scale but i am curious as to if I should do a Beyer dip and if my quarantine tank is now compromised and I need to start it over.
I also found a couple of what I think is aiptasia but I wouldn't mind second opinions .
Finally below is a camera shot showing the overview of the frag.
You can see the tube if you zoom in near the left most polyp and the aiptasia is near the bottom center.
Thanks in advance for all your input!