I have two Clown Fish, Neon Dotty Back, Flameback Angel, and Four Green Chromis. Also an Emerald Crab, Three Nassarius Snails, Cleaner Shrimp, and Six Bubble-tip Anemones. Noticed all six of my Hermits are gone. Iodine level is fine.
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Here is a better picture of one of the blue legs that appears to have been assimilated. Or maybe it used to be a Cerinth. It has been so heavily modified by the creature its hard to even tell what it used to be. It almost looks cobbled together by other things in the tank. That arm looks like seaweed but it is also claw (maybe?) the rear appendage looks like it’s reaching towards to attached to another infected snail or crab below which is the blue blob. I think this is a very scary, rare flatworm. I know flatworms can take over the bodies of crustaceans, and it’s plausible that a flatworm could change its shape, but I’ve never heard or seen of any of this dramatic camaflauge/shapshifting ability In any species, but if it’s not an alien some exotic flatworm is my explanation.What are we looking at?
Here is a better picture of one of the blue legs that appears to have been assimilated. Or maybe it used to be a Cerinth. It has been so heavily modified by the creature its hard to even tell what it used to be. It almost looks cobbledWhat are we looking at?
I wish it was a meteor rock. I actually used regular Carrabian live rock that was shattered and boxed up. It was the most mass produced box of live rock. The infection happened after I added a second batch of animals and macroalgae to the tank, so the live rock in the tank was about 6 months old so I don’t think it’s a live rock issue.You didn’t by chance use any pieces of meteorites as live rock did you?
The thing is literally everywhere, I wish the water wasn’t as cloudy so we could see it better. To orient yourself, look at the white hole/circle at the bottom center left of the tank that has little blue crab legs around it. That used to be a blue legged crab, but the creature seems to have bored through it and is maybe using it as a mouth to filter feed or abuse. Didn’t notice any movement. Look behind the ‘mouth’. There is a crab looking head with tenticles that go in and out of the substrate spreading around it. These were all over the tank.The clear looking thing behind the frag plug?
Now simultaneously on the other side of the tank, this creature appears to be grabbing the blue legged snail’s astra snail from both sides. The right side looks more crab like, and the left side had these little frills on them to kind of like a mini sea fan or something. Those white things on its ‘head’ that you can see on the right upper part of the shell would turn to follow my flashlight, so I think it was at least photosensitive, and not at all scared of me if had full vision. The giant pouch coming out of the astra shell started inflating after the thing grabbed it. I think it’s injecting something into it which is causing the hermits crabs tissue/guts to swell absurdly. I could see it the pouch enlarging over time.What are we looking at?
What 2nd batch of animals ?Here is a better picture of one of the blue legs that appears to have been assimilated. Or maybe it used to be a Cerinth. It has been so heavily modified by the creature its hard to even tell what it used to be. It almost looks cobbled
I wish it was a meteor rock. I actually used regular Carrabian live rock that was shattered and boxed up. It was the most mass produced box of live rock. The infection happened after I added a second batch of animals and macroalgae to the tank, so the live rock in the tank was about 6 months old so I don’t think it’s a live rock issue.