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mandie · Jan 9, 2025

Hi! We just started this journey and hope to learn so much more with everyone. We just started a 90 gallon going into three months. We had bought a xenia from a fish store We have come to like in raleigh. We were hoping some one could help us with an extra We recieved. The xenia was place on a shell at the store we place it in the tank on its own island. We noticed the other day a small flower popped out on what seems like a barnacle but if it sees light directly it shoots back in it's hole. Everything has been dipped and it doesn't seem to bother anything we just don't know what it is and want to make sure. It's near the bottom, sorry best picture i could get. Its small and fast. Thank you in advance mandie & Jessi.

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rasthavis · Jan 10, 2025

mandie said:
Hi! We just started this journey and hope to learn so much more with everyone. We just started a 90 gallon going into three months. We had bought a xenia from a fish store We have come to like in raleigh. We were hoping some one could help us with an extra We recieved. The xenia was place on a shell at the store we place it in the tank on its own island. We noticed the other day a small flower popped out on what seems like a barnacle but if it sees light directly it shoots back in it's hole. Everything has been dipped and it doesn't seem to bother anything we just don't know what it is and want to make sure. It's near the bottom, sorry best picture i could get. Its small and fast. Thank you in advance mandie & Jessi.

Probably a filter feeding polychaete worm, usually called feather duster worms. Harmless. Hides in a hole and deploys feathery tentacles to trap floating particles.
I am in Chapel Hill and my tank is a Florida grass flats tank. Only organisms from Florida and the Caribbean.
I have lots of macro algae, a gorgonian, a Royal Gramma and 3 chalk basslets. and some feather duster worms.
In the 2 years I have had a marine tank I have learned that having a good population of pods - amphipods and copepods - may help avoid the scourge of slime algae. I would suggest making this a priority after cycling the tank.