ID this pest/critter

[jdavid]

This thing is about 1/4" long. I found it on the base of a LPS Colony.

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[jc_k]

Isn't that a flatworm?

 

[jdavid]

I think so, but there are MANY kinds of flatworms. This has been in a tank with only ricordea, Duncan, and fathead dendro for weeks, so we can rule out the kind that feed on SPS.

 

[jdavid]

Your typical flatworms that eat LPS/mushrooms look like this

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[lant]

Some sort of chiton?

 

[jdavid]

I think it's a chiton! Harmless grazer.

Similar to this species

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What you think JC

 

[jdavid]

Lant;971706 wrote: Some sort of chiton?

Yup! That's what I think. Happened across a picture on Boston reefer's hitchhiker guide

 

[jdavid]

I think I owe the little guy an apology and to return him safely to the aquarium.

 

[lant]

I have a ton of the beige brown kinds. The multiply really fast once they settle in and they can grow really big. They do a good job of cleaning the glass under the sand bed, so definitely a nice hitchhiker to have.

 

[jdavid]

Yes I feel terrible now. I had this guy pinned as evil incarnate.

 

[maelstrom79]

That is a really cool colored chiton. Most of the ones I've seen were more gray.

 

[reef insane]

They are similar to snails. Great grazers/cleaners. Harmless.


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