Need a Mushroom and a Worm ID

JeffDubya

New Member
OK, so these mushrooms were sold to me by a member of my local reefkeeper's club as "Watermelon Mushrooms." I like them, and I like him, but I have seen Watermelon Mushrooms, and these don't look like them to me. To me, looks more like a Green Sprinkles Rhodactis but I would like to know what you all think.

Second, I bought a piece of LR with a very small colony of brown polyps on it. What can I say, it was a good bargain. However, it has some GREAT tube worms on it, plus these critters. I have seen them before from my old reefkeeping days, but never bothered to ID. They are cool looking worms and I would like to find some more information on them.
 

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JeffDubya

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I kinda thought it looked like a brittle star... but stuck *inside* the rock? Really?

FWIW, It looks like I have 3-4 inside this one chunk of rock. Not bad for 5 bucks! There are also at least 3 different types of tube worms coming out of this rock, including one that has an iridescent "flower" - depending on your angle it is different colors. Pretty neat!
 

little urchin

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i have about 12 of the mini brittle stars, and i've only seen them come totally out of the rock twice....they are great to watch catching flake, brine shrimp etc....you can even pass them pieces and they take them off you
 
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