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Old 12-24-2006, 08:27 PM
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Found this about an hour ago. About 2mm, maybe 3mm in length. I tried to remove it off the glass but of course dropped it and off it went into the tank.

Perfect closeup of my scratched up front glass. Man I can't wait to tear this tank down.

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Its not any of the dreaded flatworms I recognise. Maybe a acro eating one.. never had one of them before tho.
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I saw something that looks like that in my 20g a few weeks ago, it was about 3/4 of an inch long and not very wide. It didn't look like a flatworm to me and I haven't seen anything eaten so I just left it


*edit* I mean it was flat and worm like but it didn't look like any of the flatworms I usually see
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It's not one of the nasty red ones I had - personally i'm leaning towards a young nudi of some sort...

Normally the nasty flatworms we have in our tanks are a much different shape (melev's got some good pics), with a square light/dark spot in the middle.
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Yeah i agree with the young nudibranch comment. Flatworms usually aren't quite so "veiny" looking other than the "vein" along the midline.

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Guess I shouldn't have been wearing the oven gloves while trying to remove something so itty bitty? Oh well .. not sure what I would have done with it anyhow...
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Well it sorta looks like the kind I had once. Got any softies in there?
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Clove polyps, gorgonians .. just put in a buncha zoos from various sources too in the last couple of weeks.

They don't look "off" though. Only thing that's weird is the clam .. well .. Ok that and 100% mortality in the snails I just ordered (but the shipment took too long .. that'll learn me to MO livestock 2 days before Christmas .. )
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What ever you do, do not let it jump toward your head and climb into your ear. I'm pretty sure I seen one of those on tv. The infected people's minds were taken over.
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