Sea squirts, urochordates, tunicates

The sea squirt is one of the most unusual creatures I ever kept.
Sea squirts are suspension feeders. They have two openings in their body cavity: an incurrent and an excurrent siphon. The incurrent siphon is used to intake food and water and the excurrent siphon expels waste and water. The tunicate's primary food source is plankton.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• urochordates
• tunicates
• sea
• squirts
• marine
• tank
• reef
• aquarium

[en14vn]

is that opening the incurrent or excurrent siphon?

[shockdude]

incurrent...it looks really anal

[AuronWarrior]

Sea apple aren't tunicates, but Sea Pineapple are. If you don't know what sea pinapples are go tp wikipedia and type Sea Pineapples.

[shockdude]

ok thanks for the tip

[AuronWarrior]

Have you ever heard of a tunicate called the sea pineapple? I wonder if Sea pineapple can be kept in tanks like these.

[shockdude]

actually I learnt the hard way, Sea Squirts a very complex filter feeders, they slowly deteriate. I havent heard of sea pineaple but ive heard of sea apples, i strongly recommenced not keeping sea apples the are very toxic when they die...bacially they can kill your entire tank. all the best mate.

[shockdude]

Yes they are, incredible to look at

[AuronWarrior]

Tunicates are a beatiful creatures