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I was looking at @RobertK ’s live rock holding tank with him yesterday when he spotted these extremely long tentacles coming from a piece of KP aquatics rock:
There appear to be multiple of these organisms, with one pair of red/brown, and white striped tentacles per-organism… the large one’s pair of tentacles are very long (3”+), but only maybe 1mm wide at most…
It was a challenge to get a good photo of, so I took a video to try showing feeding behavior:
My best guess so far is Mesochaetopterus rogeri … thoughts?
There appear to be multiple of these organisms, with one pair of red/brown, and white striped tentacles per-organism… the large one’s pair of tentacles are very long (3”+), but only maybe 1mm wide at most…
It was a challenge to get a good photo of, so I took a video to try showing feeding behavior:
My best guess so far is Mesochaetopterus rogeri … thoughts?
