Invertebrates Photo Gallery

Browse to identify or just enjoy the beauty of saltwater aquarium invertebrates through this gallery of invertebrate photos grouped by common family name categories from Anemones to Starfishes. Most of the images in this collection have common and scientific name, and often profile or other notes included with them.

Those Little White Bugs in Your Aquarium
Your About Guides profile those little white bugs you see swimming or crawling around your aquarium. Learn about copepod and amphipod facts, what marine species will eat them, how to add them to a saltwater aquarium as a food source, as well as control or remove them if they are taking over becoming pests.

What The Heck Is That In My Aquarium?
What are those little white dots growing on my aquarium glass? What are those little white bug-like things swimming around my tank? Is it a bristleworm, shrimp, plankton, anemone, urchin, copepod, amphipod, starfish, worm, parasite or some other organism? Is it going to hurt my aquarium?

Claire Leighton's Amphipod
Claire Leighton's photo of an Amphipod on the glass of her saltwater aquarium.

January 2005 Inverts Photo Contest
Photos in the January Invertebrates Contest include a Green Bubble Coral & Cleaner Shrimp, Porcelain Anemone Crab in Condy Anemone, Green Bubble Coral, African Red Starfish, Candy Cane Coral, "Crummy the Crab", Hydromedusae Jellyfish, Open Brain Coral, and a Condy Anemone. View all the entries, pick a favorite, and cast your vote, because your vote helps to determine the winners!

Guides Invertebrate Profiles Index
Here is an index to all of the Saltwater Invertebrate Family and Species Profiles your Guides have compiled that contain photos with identification, characteristic, diet, feeding and other information to learn about their captive care.

Reef Safe Invertebrates
Not all invertebrates are "reef safe". Many of them will tear up corals, consume fish and otherwise destroy other tank inhabitants. The invertebrates listed here are some (not all by any means) generally considered by experienced reef tank keepers to be safe for reef tanks.

Invertebrates Image Portfolios
From Reef Images, with all the pictures taken naturally in the wild, here is quite an extensive collection of Invertebrate images that can be viewed by Portfolios with related Families grouped together as a whole, or by individual Species categories. Clicking on the images will display an enlarged view with scientific/common name, location, and some other general information.

Marine Invertebrates of Hawai'i
From Brian Tissot's Hawai'i Coral Reef Network, snapshots of various types of Invertebrates found in Hawaiian waters that are organized by Phylums.

Reef Life Gallery
From the Sea & Sky website, indexed categories for viewing photos of Sponges, Corals & Anemones, Sea Worms, Echinoderms, Crustaceans and Mollusks, as well as Reef Fishes and other sea animals. Much information about all the animals is included.

Saltwater Flatworm Picture Gallery
Saltwater Flatworm Picture Gallery. Marine Flatworms usually ride into a saltwater aquarium on or in live rock. These beautiful animals are only a few cells thick and are very simple. They absorb oxygen through the skin, lack a complex nervous system, and food and waste is exchanged at the mouth. Despite their delicate bodies flatworms are active carnivores that prey upon small invertebrates. Th…

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