As the worm turns
Last night araignee dropped by to deliver some good news. More on that later.
We demonstrated our current projector to him, as he expressed some interest. I showed him the beauty of Lego Star Wars II on the GameCube for this demonstration. So, he leaves and I walk into the computer room where the SubG has just walked in, flipped on the light, and stowed the game on a shelf. He flips off the light just as I am walking toward the fishtank where OMG WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT TURN ON THE LIGHT TURN ON THE LIGHT TURN ON THE LIGHT!
The light is flipped back on at which point we can see several long wormy things swimming through the water column with a frenetic corkscrewing action. They're white-ish. They range in length from 1.5 to 4 inches. They don't have an obvious head, though it's hard to tell with all the wiggling.
"araignee is going to be pissed when he hears he _just_ missed this."
"Yeah. What do you think they are?"
"It's really hard to really tell what they look like."
"If you get your camera, maybe we can freeze it to get a look."
"Oh, yeah. Huh?"
"Very fast shutter speed."
So, I did. And I pretty much failed to get a good picture. One several of the worms appeared to dive for cover with the lights on and all. One of them attempted to go down the uptake and got caught in the grating. This allowed me to have a slightly less wiggly subject, although the lighting was still impossible. The picture here is the result of that. You can't tell much except it is an annelid.
Some research on reefs.org turns up that most folks would guess it is an epitoke. I am not sure about this. I couldn't see any definite head parts, sure. And, the one stuck in the uptake completely just came apart when I reached in with a chopstick with the idea of fishing him out and putting him in a bowl to look at and/or photograph. And, it is well known that I have bristleworms in the tank, as well as peanut worms, spionid worms, spaghetti worms, feather duster worms, usw. And I did just change the rate at which I am feeding the tank phytoplankton. So, that's a lot of arguments for that theory.
But, well, most folks describe bristleworm epitokes as being 1 to 1.5 inches. The smallest of these guys, remember, was 1.5 inches. And the big one was definitely over 4 inches. And they did not resemble my bristleworms at all -- different color, no noticeable legs all over the place, usw. So, well, you know, I dunno. Pretty cool, anyway.
We demonstrated our current projector to him, as he expressed some interest. I showed him the beauty of Lego Star Wars II on the GameCube for this demonstration. So, he leaves and I walk into the computer room where the SubG has just walked in, flipped on the light, and stowed the game on a shelf. He flips off the light just as I am walking toward the fishtank where OMG WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT TURN ON THE LIGHT TURN ON THE LIGHT TURN ON THE LIGHT!
The light is flipped back on at which point we can see several long wormy things swimming through the water column with a frenetic corkscrewing action. They're white-ish. They range in length from 1.5 to 4 inches. They don't have an obvious head, though it's hard to tell with all the wiggling.
"araignee is going to be pissed when he hears he _just_ missed this."
"Yeah. What do you think they are?"
"It's really hard to really tell what they look like."
"If you get your camera, maybe we can freeze it to get a look."
"Oh, yeah. Huh?"
"Very fast shutter speed."
So, I did. And I pretty much failed to get a good picture. One several of the worms appeared to dive for cover with the lights on and all. One of them attempted to go down the uptake and got caught in the grating. This allowed me to have a slightly less wiggly subject, although the lighting was still impossible. The picture here is the result of that. You can't tell much except it is an annelid.
Some research on reefs.org turns up that most folks would guess it is an epitoke. I am not sure about this. I couldn't see any definite head parts, sure. And, the one stuck in the uptake completely just came apart when I reached in with a chopstick with the idea of fishing him out and putting him in a bowl to look at and/or photograph. And, it is well known that I have bristleworms in the tank, as well as peanut worms, spionid worms, spaghetti worms, feather duster worms, usw. And I did just change the rate at which I am feeding the tank phytoplankton. So, that's a lot of arguments for that theory.
But, well, most folks describe bristleworm epitokes as being 1 to 1.5 inches. The smallest of these guys, remember, was 1.5 inches. And the big one was definitely over 4 inches. And they did not resemble my bristleworms at all -- different color, no noticeable legs all over the place, usw. So, well, you know, I dunno. Pretty cool, anyway.