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RadleyMiller
10-03-2006, 8:29 PM
Today we caught a Sea Squirt in our collecting trip and I was wondering if anyone kept them. I know they are filter feeders, so what supplement from Kent Marine should I use? I haven't worked much with invertabrates like this, but I hope you have!

Any feedback would be great.
RadleyMiller
10-03-2006, 8:31 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/tbone820/oceanography/DSCF0078.jpg
That's it!
dredcon
10-03-2006, 9:17 PM
Looks like a sea cucumber to me.
RadleyMiller
10-03-2006, 9:49 PM
Looks like a sea cucumber to me.

Honestly, it looks like a hairy rock, but its some type of tunicate.
Fish_are_fishfood
10-03-2006, 9:55 PM
I dont think thats a sea squirt, it looks to big to be one. Sea squirts once established in the tank just prosper on there own. I put some in my tank and only found a couple here and there to reproduce, but when I opened up my filter, they spawned everywhere. I always pushed them off and put them back in the tank, and within the next couple of weeks they always found there way back to spawn in the filter.
RadleyMiller
10-03-2006, 9:57 PM
I dont think thats a sea squirt, it looks to big to be one. Sea squirts once established in the tank just prosper on there own. I put some in my tank and only found a couple here and there to reproduce, but when I opened up my filter, they spawned everywhere. I always pushed them off and put them back in the tank, and within the next couple of weeks they always found there way back to spawn in the filter.

What do you think that thing is then?
dredcon
10-03-2006, 10:22 PM
Was it attached to a substrate when you found it? Has it moved since you put it in the tank?
RadleyMiller
10-03-2006, 10:28 PM
Was it attached to a substrate when you found it? Has it moved since you put it in the tank?

I don't know, my teacher found it. I will ask him tommorow. It was changing shape in my hand. I am going to go check on it now. I will PM you later with more questions if that is ok with you.

Thanks drecon
dredcon
10-03-2006, 10:40 PM
Thats fine with me, ask away.
RadleyMiller
10-04-2006, 4:21 PM
Thats fine with me, ask away.

Thanks dredcon, do you have any idea what this might be? Would you like me to take more pictures of it?
RadleyMiller
10-04-2006, 4:28 PM
http://www.baylink.org/lessons/27.html

I found it! It's a sea cucumber.