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mama
Tue, 21st Jul 2009, 05:13 PM
OK...so this came in on a piece of liverock I purchased that had my anemone attached...the anemone moved and I went to put the piece aside and this thing moves!1 It retracts and can deflate to almost flat when disturbed. It then perks right up again in a few minutes...It is the size of a 50-cent piece. It looks like a human heart to me by the 2-valves and shape...:confused:

Thanks,
Laura
mama
Tue, 21st Jul 2009, 05:16 PM
http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/mm395/austinaquatics/humanheart.jpg
cbianco
Tue, 21st Jul 2009, 06:07 PM
Maybe a type of tunicate?

Yahoo! image search...

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0WTefXuSWZKZxwB9ZCJzbkF?p=tunicate&fr=yfp-t-150&ei=utf-8&x=wrt

Christopher
jpond83
Tue, 21st Jul 2009, 07:45 PM
looks like some kind of sea squirt
Daniel
Tue, 21st Jul 2009, 07:55 PM
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/530736/sea-squirt

Looks kinda like the one you have.
jpond83
Tue, 21st Jul 2009, 08:19 PM
i had alot of them in my tank the same shape but they were orange. i dont have them anymore because i got rid of the rock they were attached too. but they look about the same
mama
Tue, 21st Jul 2009, 10:06 PM
You are all right.... Thank YOU!!

It is a sea squirt...it looks like it has a poor survival rate in captivity and I need to watch it because it can be toxic upon demise...
jpond83
Wed, 22nd Jul 2009, 12:16 AM
mine lived in my tank for the whole time i had the rock, which was about a year. and still alive when i got rid of the rock.
mama
Wed, 22nd Jul 2009, 08:38 AM
mine lived in my tank for the whole time i had the rock, which was about a year. and still alive when i got rid of the rock.


that is good to hear...it is a cute lil thing and I hope it changes color as I looked at the images on google, and I would like to see a color better than poo-poo brown:wink_smile: