I have been quarantining a piece of live rock in a separate tank, with nothing else in it. I've notices a few hitchikers - bristleworms, a black slug with raised hairs, a few small isopods, and some aiptasia.
I threw a peppermint shrimp in the QT tank, to hopefully take care of the aiptasia.
The shrimp didn't make it (probably because I did a lightning fast acclimation...wups).
I noticed it struggling at the end of life. A few minutes later, it was taken and hung in suspense outside an unknown hitchhiker's layer, with almost a slime cocoon. About 24 hours later, its body liquidated and a blob left, with only legs and antenna distinguishably left.
Woah. What could this be?
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I threw a peppermint shrimp in the QT tank, to hopefully take care of the aiptasia.
The shrimp didn't make it (probably because I did a lightning fast acclimation...wups).
I noticed it struggling at the end of life. A few minutes later, it was taken and hung in suspense outside an unknown hitchhiker's layer, with almost a slime cocoon. About 24 hours later, its body liquidated and a blob left, with only legs and antenna distinguishably left.
Woah. What could this be?
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