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is it a baby nudi? i mean it's not moving, i've never had a nudi before not even sure how it got in there. first time im ever seeing this in the tank.

regardless of what it is, most times when there are hairs like that there is poison involved. Like a bristle worm. I would be careful with it. We already had one member with medical issues this month. I think were good on that for a few decades.

ugh i can't win with this image attachment never works. the above link is to an image that shows more of the body minus the hairs.

They do look very similar Terps

 

As for the hands...back when I started I had a candylactus anemone. Being smart I handled it with my bare hands. I felt a warming feeling in my joints and where it touched me for a couple days. That was a relatively weak sting. I have had my hands in an aquarium, a year or so ago, that had bristle worms. Just trying to get them out and moving rock around I stirred up the sand, and caused some of the hairs to come off the worm. A few minutes later I had several spots on my arm that were stinging pretty bad. So, rubber gloves are a MUST have. Most of us have been stung or bit by somehting some time. But with this hobby we have some very nasty little buggers in our tanks.

 

There was a video about coral fragging. They mentioned that some people like to try to cut zooanthids like they would an anemone. Except zooanthids contain some toxins...they also hold the water inside them...so when you try to cut them they pop. This can get the toxin in your eyes. I beleive I even heard a guy tried to boil them off his rocks... resulting in having the toxin evaporating into the air and causing massive irritation of his eyes, nose, mouth and putting him in the hospital.

 

I know there are more stories like this....

 

The moral, just be careful!

Do you have any clams in your tank?

 

 

It sort of looks like the byssal gland from a clam.

 

These were my first thoughts as well.

I agree with the clam assumption. I had the same thing in my tank I believe Coral Hind explained to me what it was.

just keep an eye on it. ive seen clams lose the byssal gland and live, but also some have died. was the clam moved recently? Is it a new addition?

couple weeks ago the clam was pushed off a rock it was on. it fell on to the sand bed. i had left it there because it didn't show any signs of distress or anything.

To me it isn't so much a damaged clam's foot but probably just the mass of byssal strands. They can let go of the bundle when they need to move and once they settle somewhere else they will lay down new strands.

There are so many strange things in the oceans and in our tanks that it never stops being interesting and intriguing.

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