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  1. Tue, 21st Jul 2009, 05:13 PM #1
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    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...

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  2. Tue, 21st Jul 2009, 05:16 PM #2
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    Maybe a type of tunicate?

    Yahoo! image search...

    http://images.search.yahoo.com/searc...ei=utf-8&x=wrt

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    looks like some kind of sea squirt
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    http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/...736/sea-squirt

    Looks kinda like the one you have.
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    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
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    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...
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  8. Wed, 22nd Jul 2009, 12:16 AM #8
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jpond83 View Post
    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
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