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Old 01/11/2008, 05:39 PM
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What's growing on my LR

I purchased aquacultured LR 5 weeks ago. Today I noticed one 2 areas about 2"x2" covered with lots of something with tiny red pinpoint centers circled by straw colored thin spikes. Each thinkg is about 1mm in diameter. Any ideas
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Old 01/11/2008, 05:50 PM
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If I don't post this someone else will, you will most likely need to post a picture or most answers will be guesses. Good luck on your hunt.
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Old 01/11/2008, 05:55 PM
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They are too small to get a pic
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Old 01/11/2008, 06:01 PM
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Might be Foraminiferans, but tought to say without a picture.

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-07/rs/index.php
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Old 01/11/2008, 06:16 PM
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Nope. Not foraminiferans. Almost looks like a miniture featherduster with a red dot center
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Old 01/11/2008, 06:28 PM
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Here is a pic of what I was thinking of, I realizedthere are not any great pics in the article.



Otherwise my second guess would be a vermetid snail




After that, I;m out of ideas without a picture
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Old 01/11/2008, 06:31 PM
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Does it look like that: Thats a feather duster
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Old 01/11/2008, 06:38 PM
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Nope. Not foraminiferans. Almost looks like a miniture featherduster with a red dot center
At first when I read this, I interpreted it as that you had ruled out feather dusters, but reading it again, I realize I could be wrong

That would make sense
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Old 01/11/2008, 06:57 PM
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Sorry. they don't look like any of the pictures. It is alot of them. They have a bright red center about the size of a pencil dot on a piece of paper surrounded by individual little straw colored projections. Almost looks as if they were short cactus spikes
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Old 01/11/2008, 07:14 PM
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It does sound alot like forams but w/o a pic its hard to ID
 

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