Xenia Growing on Velonia

[Wampatom]

I maintain one of my reef tanks using only natural sunlight. The tank has been doing well so I don’t do much maintenance. This week I cleaned it and found a huge bubble of Velonia, about 1 inch in diameter, with pumping xenia growing on the top. I got quite a laugh out of it. The pictures are interesting because you can see the windows in the room reflected on the surface of the velonia. In the second picture you can see corals reflected in the algae. It reminds me on one of the ray tracing computer rendering programs.


Sharky and Len. I suggest that one of the photo contests deal with nuisance creatures, either portrayed in a funny way, or showing clearly what a nuisance they can be. I know I have my entry.

 

[jandree22]

wow, some bizarre stuff! 8O

 

[Anonymous]

ha. it's kinda cool pic man. HF.

reminds me of once when i looked in my tank and saw a large snail all covered w/ algea and junk. a hermit crab was riding high, cleaning the snail shell up. then my mandarin goby swam by and had some lunch of baby copepods in the algae on the crab's back.

 

[Anonymous]

Tha is kind of neat. I have a plating monti that grew over some and when they poped the monti had a real interesting shape.

 

[Anonymous]

Heh, I have some xenia growing on valonia too. I also have some xenia growing on a hermit crab.

Come to think of it, I have xenia growing on a clam, xenia growing up the sides of my tank, xenia growing on the heater 8O, xenia growing on a gorgonian, xenia...

:roll:

HD

 

[Anonymous]

I wish I had gotten a pic of this...

I had a spaghetti worm that attached to an old dead snail shell in the sandbed. At one point a hermit decided it would be a good shell to use, so it had a spaghetti worm as a hitchhiker for a few days.

Very cool shot!

 

[Wheeldog63]

I wish I would of gotten a good pic of it, but I have had some BTA's hitching rides on big Turbo sp. snails, those are cool to see.