ID Wired Creature?

[Yariel0527]

I tough I was never going to ask for and ID ever.. Well I figured that I could find anything in google. Well Not this time! lol
Long story short when I woke up this morning I went checking for my new ruby scooters (Thanks LEDREEF for finding the fish for me) so I went around the tank with the flashlight and found this wired creature with this peacock feather looking on my live rock I have never seen in my years of reefing now the ? Have anyone seen or have an idea of what it could be?

 

[ReefKeeper1699]

Is that a part of a mantis shrimp sticking out of a hole in the rock it could be hiding in?

 

[Overlook reef]

Is that a part of a mantis shrimp sticking out of a hole in the rock it could be hiding in?

It looks like it could be one of the tail pieces of a peacock mantis shrimp. I am not sure.

Have you added any live rock to the tank recently? Are you missing any fish or inverts?

 

[ReefKeeper1699]

If it is a lot of people will want it lol

 

[RichardinMA]

The pattern does not match any segment of a mantis shrimp that I can see. It was the first thing I though as well, however if you examine the margin of the blue/green area, it does not match. Does it move? It is flat and soft, like a fin, or is it rigid?

 

[s_kelley]

Did it go into the hole when you shined the light on it? Kind of looks like the tail of a fish but I'm looking at a small pic on my phone. Was it more of a shell looking thing?

 

[Yariel0527]

Ok this is the first time I seen this in my tank so don't really know if it moves around it really looks like a feather in all of the aspects. Not a mantis for sure I had them before and nothing close.

 

[Yariel0527]

Did it go into the hole when you shined the light on it? Kind of looks like the tail of a fish but I'm looking at a small pic on my phone. Was it more of a shell looking thing?

it didn't move at all when I pointed with the light I have never seen it during the day.

 

[RichardinMA]

Looks like the tail fin of a fish to me as well. Ever "lose" a wrasse or other fish in there?

 

[MrX]

Looks like the tail end of a Mystery Wrasse.

 

[Flame Angel]

I would say a fish as you can see the ridge lines in the tail fin.

 

[Chrissy]

Looks like a wrasse tail to me, too.

 

[Cherokee_Dude]

Definitely a Mystery Wrasse Tail.

 

[Cherokee_Dude]

So, was I right? Still wondering here

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[Nicole79]

Definately looks like a fish tail.

But where did the rest of it go?

 

[dz6t]

the rest of the wrasse was inside the hole.

 

[Nicole79]

the rest of the wrasse was inside the hole.

OHH! Now i see it!... I thought it was a severed tail :stupid:

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