"walking dendro"

[encideought]

Has anyone ever had one of these?

 

Heteropsammia cochlea

 

It would be kinda cool to take your coral for a walk around the tank

[Chad]

I think they are awesome, although I would be concerned about the peanut worm walking into another coral

 

There have been a lot of those on DD recently.

 

 

[gmubeach]

What is this I'm looking at is it a worm with a coral or a coral with a worm or just a coral

[Chad]

It is a peanut worm with a commensal coral that it carries around, they are uber cool! They carry both photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic corals around (I think most of those on DD recently have been photosynthetic).

[Hilary]

Yea, I was looking at them on DD and was really tempted, but reason prevailed since I really don't have the sand space available for one to move around without knocking everything else around.

[encideought]

Yeah, I haven't researched it very thoroughly (probably not much info out there available), but the ones I've seen for sale seem to be photosynthetic (more like a duncan than a dendro). There is a hole in the bottom of the coral where a peanut worm lives and helps carry it around.

 

Pretty freakin' cool!

Edited April 13, 2010 by encideought