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Hi all, I saw one of my mandarins with this alien looking protrusion from the mouth last night, and initially thought that she had vomited her mouth inside out, cos it was in the same psychedelic colour scheme (see picture). She dropped it after a while and I realised that it was a living organism, cos it had hair like bristles in the mid section of the body.

This morning, she was happily digging out two bristle worms from their caves -- nope, I wasn't starving her, I have no idea why she is scavenging for pests the last couple of days.

Anyway, I am attaching a picture of the alien looking creature (on the left, together with the two worms, the body has decomposed and the colour is faded), hoping that someone knows what it is. :thanks:

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My 1.5ft nano cube

My 24G nano tank (Decommed)

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Hi all, I saw one of my mandarins with this alien looking protrusion from the mouth last night, and initially thought that she had vomited her mouth inside out, cos it was in the same psychedelic colour scheme (see picture). She dropped it after a while and I realised that it was a living organism, cos it had hair like bristles in the mid section of the body.

This morning, she was happily digging out two bristle worms from their caves -- nope, I wasn't starving her, I have no idea why she is scavenging for pests the last couple of days.

Anyway, I am attaching a picture of the alien looking creature (on the left, together with the two worms, the body has decomposed and the colour is faded), hoping that someone knows what it is. :thanks:

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Hi, sure look weird. Not sure what is it. Egg? Larva? By the way, u feed what to mandarin?

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Hi, sure look weird. Not sure what is it. Egg? Larva? By the way, u feed what to mandarin?

I've got one pair, the female feeds on frozen food (Henry's reef gourmet) and the other is refusing to eat anything "dead", only eats the pods from the live rocks and live brine shrimp.

Now that you mention it, the creature does look like a larvae of some sort, like the freshly hatched larvae from Aliens!

The creature is about 4 to 5cm long head to tail, forgot to mention.

My 1.5ft nano cube

My 24G nano tank (Decommed)

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.

And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

-- Jack Handey

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Hi all, I saw one of my mandarins with this alien looking protrusion from the mouth last night, and initially thought that she had vomited her mouth inside out, cos it was in the same psychedelic colour scheme (see picture). She dropped it after a while and I realised that it was a living organism, cos it had hair like bristles in the mid section of the body.

This morning, she was happily digging out two bristle worms from their caves -- nope, I wasn't starving her, I have no idea why she is scavenging for pests the last couple of days.

Anyway, I am attaching a picture of the alien looking creature (on the left, together with the two worms, the body has decomposed and the colour is faded), hoping that someone knows what it is. :thanks:

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The 2 worms look like bobbit.

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i dun tink all mandrain behaves this way

else i got to go buy 1 liaoz

super many bobbits worms in my tank..

It is housed in a nano tank mah... the fish probably got bored, needed a hobby :upsidedown:

My 1.5ft nano cube

My 24G nano tank (Decommed)

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.

And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

-- Jack Handey

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