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.
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 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 photo of an Amphipod on the glass of her saltwater aquarium.
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!
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.
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.
From DiskoDuk's Reef site, John shares nice snapshots of his Moonstone & Ricordea Corals, Pulsing Xenia, Brittle Starfish, Flame Scallop and Turtle Grass.
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.
From Brian Tissot's Hawai'i Coral Reef Network, snapshots of various types of Invertebrates found in Hawaiian waters that are organized by Phylums.
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.
