So...... I bought a tunicate. (Yea, I know), I thought it was an ox heart tunicate. Kinda just grey and lavender lines.
A few hours after getting g it Home the color got deeper in the veins and the siphons a nice orangey color.
A few days pass, colors get deeper and I’m pretty darned happy.
I looked at the tank last night and I noticed it was curled up. Ten minutes later it started to shed.
(Inner monologue “it’s shedding , it’s just shedding, uhhh do they shed?”)
Yes. They do shed. But this was FAST. Under an hour. Also starts to change color....
Well cool! Get camera. Stay clam.
Uhhhh, are those guts? Aw, geeeze...
Seriously, what the heck is that?!?
Where are my 390 loupes and 189 macro lenses!?!?
Thanks to modern technology and the speed this all happened , we turned to the trusty IPhone and the $3 plastic loupe and got this!
Mind BLOWN!!!
Yea, it is alive , and in a mesh bag in the tank.
Anyone like to hazard a guess as to what it is exactly?
Oh, and yes , we feel much better (and more colorful),after a quick purge and a shed.
Golden Tunicate (or Oxheart ) , Polycarpa Aurata
I forgot to #reefsquad my friends.
A few hours after getting g it Home the color got deeper in the veins and the siphons a nice orangey color.
A few days pass, colors get deeper and I’m pretty darned happy.
I looked at the tank last night and I noticed it was curled up. Ten minutes later it started to shed.
(Inner monologue “it’s shedding , it’s just shedding, uhhh do they shed?”)
Yes. They do shed. But this was FAST. Under an hour. Also starts to change color....
Well cool! Get camera. Stay clam.
Uhhhh, are those guts? Aw, geeeze...
Seriously, what the heck is that?!?
Where are my 390 loupes and 189 macro lenses!?!?
Thanks to modern technology and the speed this all happened , we turned to the trusty IPhone and the $3 plastic loupe and got this!
Mind BLOWN!!!
Yea, it is alive , and in a mesh bag in the tank.
Anyone like to hazard a guess as to what it is exactly?
Oh, and yes , we feel much better (and more colorful),after a quick purge and a shed.
Golden Tunicate (or Oxheart ) , Polycarpa Aurata
I forgot to #reefsquad my friends.
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