This is a long worm-like creature with many legs that has been making itself known in and out of the live rocks for the past few days. It was out from the rock this morning when I turned on the light. It then plowed into the sand but we were able to capture a shot of it first. Its interesting to note that we had the live rock out of the water for almost 10 hours the day we bought it but somehow creatures such as this worm lived outside of the water.And also....
We have also had mysterious legs poke out of the rock for the past week. We never could have imagined what happened today when we laid out a scallop....The entire organism exposed itself out of the rock and whatever could it be...........................A SEA STAR.........two of them actually. One came completely out of the rock and went straight for the scallop and nudibranch. I however quickly came to the rescue and moved the nudibranch out of harms way. We think the sea stars might have killed the other nudibranch that we had which disappeared last week. The sea stars are nocturnal and so that's why we don't see them during the day much. It so weird that they survived out of water in the rock for that long when we first introduced the rock.
The sea star is really amazing to look at.. We did some research and found that it is most likely a spiny sea star which has a central disk body with stripped red and tan legs. It also squirts out a whitish discharge from its central body that could be venomous or maybe it is just doing its business!!! I dunno....The other star has not come out and both retreated back into their lairs after their feeding on the scallops.
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