Please help id!! This is WEIRD

Rcunning8

Rcunning8

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So yesterday I found this really weird looking larvae-like egg on my sand bed in my DT. I took the thing out and immediately it started squirming in my hand. I have hanging plants over my lights and figured it had to be a larvae of some giant bug that must have just fallen out of the potted plant(gross I know). Nevertheless I decided to keep it in hopes that if it is a pest I could hatch it and get an ID on it and hopefully help me id the pest that laid the damn thing in my tank. I put it in a Tupperware container with water in it and threw it in the sump. Now I'm freaked out because Today I was expecting the thing to have decayed in the saltwater cuz I thought it had to be a bug from the soil of my hanging plant. However, it has now formed a slime coat and attached itself to the wall of the Tupperware container and seems to be actually made for the saltwater environment. Below is a pic of the egg/larva I found. Please help me id it!! I am worried it is one of those really big worms that eat fish and do nasty things at night time. Recently I have lost a mandarin while away on break with no remains which is not unusual in this hobby I know but I had the fish for two years, it survived a huge tank crash and then disappears over break?? I dunno here it is!

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It measures one whole freaking inch in length and looks like a roach egg


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Lol guys I'm freaked out! I mean it seriously looks like one of those alien eggs from the movies


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Im gonna hatch it but now I'm putting a top on it so the thing doesn't climb out of the Tupperware and kill me in my sleep


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This is a pupa of a butterfly or moth, the transitional stage between larva (caterpillar) and adult. The crumpled 'skin' of the caterpillar may be seen at the thin end of the pupa. This pupa more likely is that of a moth than a butterflyView attachment 15130

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Did you recently get new like rock ? I received and order of like rock and some big black bugs were alive and in the box that freaked me out . They got on the rock in the packing area or something being they were not sea dwellers . This was from a very reputable place and they did replace .
 
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This is a pupa of a butterfly or moth, the transitional stage between larva (caterpillar) and adult. The crumpled 'skin' of the caterpillar may be seen at the thin end of the pupa. This pupa more likely is that of a moth than a butterflyView attachment 15130

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Haha o man thanks guys this is exactly what mine looks like. I guess I can do away with my science experiment and flush away this "puppa". Hopefully it doesn't hatch in the sewer system and reek havoc on the world


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Rcunning8 said:
Haha o man thanks guys this is exactly what mine looks like. I guess I can do away with my science experiment and flush away this "puppa". Hopefully it doesn't hatch in the sewer system and reek havoc on the world
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I would of ben nice if it was something like this Glaucus Atlanticus aka
blue dragon slug lol

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