ID Please???

[schwaggs]

Can someone tell me what this little guy is? It is white with 8 points and translucent tenticles leading off of each point. I found it on my main display tank front glass a few nights ago and this is the best picture I could get of it. It is about the size of the head of a pin. It is no longer there so it either died, was eaten or moved on. It was not mobile while I observed it.
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[schwaggs]

An extreme zoom view.
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[schwaggs]

A couple more... high contrast and perspective (the bugger is circled in RED).
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[fish scales2]

It is a Hydroid. Not the colonial type though, it is to a jellyfish like an Aiptasia is to anemone.

 

[jead85]

looks pretty neat!

 

[schwaggs]

Thanks Chris, that is what mt initial thought was too but my search only found the colonial ones so I was stumped. A little more digging found this page on Wet Web Media

 

[schwaggs]

jead85;556096 wrote: looks pretty neat!

I thought so too! Never saw one in my tank before, must have come in on a recent introduction.

 

[smallblock]

That thing is awesome looking good pic

 

[rbredding]

I've seen them in my tank... but can't find them at the moment

 

[acroholic]

Fish Scales2;556088 wrote: It is a Hydroid. Not the colonial type though, it is to a jellyfish like an Aiptasia is to anemone.

Napalm at the ready.

 

[schwaggs]

Fish Scales2;556088 wrote: ...it is to a jellyfish like an Aiptasia is to anemone.

Acroholic;556225 wrote: Napalm at the ready.

Are you guys saying these are a plauge?