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

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.

They are too small to get a pic

Might be Foraminiferans, but tought to say without a picture.

[url]http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-07/rs/index.php[/url]

Nope. Not foraminiferans. Almost looks like a miniture featherduster with a red dot center

Here is a pic of what I was thinking of, I realizedthere are not any great pics in the article.
[IMG]http://www.sfu.ca/~fankbone/v/homotrema.jpg[/IMG]


Otherwise my second guess would be a vermetid snail

[IMG]http://www.pirx.com/gallery/albums/mollusks/verm2.jpg[/IMG]


After that, I;m out of ideas without a picture :lol:

[IMG]http://www.starfish.ch/Fotos/worms-Wuermer/annelida-Ringelwurm/Filogranella-elatensis3.jpg[/IMG]

Does it look like that: Thats a feather duster

[QUOTE][i]<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11577778#post11577778 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by karleejor [/i]
[B]Nope. Not foraminiferans. Almost looks like a miniture featherduster with a red dot center [/B][/QUOTE]

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 :lol:

That would make sense :rollface:

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

It does sound alot like forams but w/o a pic its hard to ID