Zoa

[animalia]

Hi I have found a little blob on my Zoa on thursday last week Luminous Orange with Black Inside.

Within 5 days it has multiplied to what is on my picture.
I do apoligise for the mutedness- if i take with the flash it is blurred.

Please tell me is this Friend or Foe?

 

[Warr7207]

That looks really weird

 

[animalia]

You won't believe me but it is Stunning!!!

 

[lanzo]

cant see

have you got any better pics?

 

[animalia]

I'm trying give me afew minutes!

 

[animalia]

lets try this a bit further but this is the best!

 

[lanzo]

that little spots between the zoa's?

 

[Kunhardt]

Maybe somethings eggs?

 

[animalia]

not eggs - if you touch them they close up make a small ball. My son's opinion is that they are 'eating' the zoa's He says only a predator can multiply that quickly to devour the food - like bacteria.

 

[animalia]

in two days there are about 20 new/more Luminous orange (outside) and black (inside) 'units' for lack of a better word.

They resemble a miniature type zoa - do you get someting like that?

 

[Warr7207]

I saw something similar at Petstop yesterday, and it it some kind of seasquirt

 

[animalia]

I saw something similar at Petstop yesterday, and it it some kind of seasquirt

Hi Warr I looked it up on the net - nowhere does it look like this and it multiplies - doubles every two days. Had the rock out of the tank and took closeups as this colony bother me - just now it is harmfull.

Please help?

 

[jacquesb]

That looks like a nudi or flatworm of some sorts. Or possibly a nudibranche's eggs?

 

[Warr7207]

They are Chain Sea Squirts or Chain Tunicates.

You going have to do some investigating, by what I have read they can be quite invasive, but that does seems to be in nature.

My personal experience of Sea Squirts, is they are great biological filters.

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