Favorite Slugs Dump

Aug 25, 2023 7:59 AM

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This guy is the winner in my book just because I find the spiral shaped tree thing on his back so interesting. Not the brightest guy but it tries its best! The rest are my other favorites stolen from this mega slug dump: https://imgur.com/gallery/BXSq1 Edit: so Imgur keeps crashing any time I click on a comment to reply but I’ve been informed this little guy is a slug and a separate cool little creature, possibly photoshopped together, that looks like a tree. These are known as “Christmas Tree Worms” or polychaete worms.

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#1 "Harro, I are snel. Observe my spirally shell!" "You not snel, you slug." "SHUT UP!"

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Now I want to watch Pokemon.

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I swear, sometimes we see things that are SO crazy, we have no choice but to believe that Mother Nature got bored, took some LSD, and made some whacked-out stuff. The green leafy thing with the face of a cow made me laugh until I wet myself!

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Beautiful

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Just glorious. What an amazing planet we live on.

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I like your dog.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#1 not a slug, someone just shopped a land slug in lol

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#1 is a photoshopped land slug, the spiral thing is a Spirobranchus sp, a polychaete worm that forms a buurrow in rocks and coral skeletons.

2 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

You are correct! Thanks. Updated the post.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

See slugs, upvote slugs.

2 years ago | Likes 46 Dislikes 2

Slugs of Love (song name)

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Hope OP keeps sending more Nudi-branches.

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See sea slugs, upvote sea slugs

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

so in #1 the spiral thing is actually next to him, not on him. I don't know the real name of those things, we tend to call them christmas trees when diving...but they're super cool in that they disappear in a flash when threatened - just by swimming over them and your shadow will make it happen. If you remember in Avatar (blue marines, not blue arrow head monks) there were the plants like that, I think those were the inspiration.

2 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

Thanks! Updated the name of these worms in the post.

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Theyre a species of feather duster which is a filter feeding worm. This species is only found living in colonies of porites coral which is a small polyp stony coral. Ive kept them and grown them theyre a really really cool. Care needs to be taken as if the coral is t doing well then the worms will suffer as well.

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

What are those hair thingys for? defence or for filterfeeding or something else?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I’m pretty sure most of them are for feeding but I wouldn’t be surprised if a few species don’t have some sort of defense built into them.

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#1 This one is shopped.

2 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 0

oh okay.. that one made no sense at all, too bad though!

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Yeah, I mean for a start it just looks like a common garden slug with a fancy blue spiral attached to it.

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It looks like a Christmas tree worm shopped on to a garden slug

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That’s exactly what it is apparently.

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