Help me, Dr. LJ, you're my only hope!

[gaudior]

OKAY. So-- there is a kind of marine animal which builds nests/tubes out of detritus it finds-- sand, coral, shells, small stones. And the nests are pretty cool-looking. And in my novel's first draft, I couldn't remember what they were called, so I just put "[that one kind of marine animal]." In the second draft, I spent a bunch of time looking around on the internet, but couldn't figure out what it was, and eventually went on. This time, I searched lots, and could come up with nothing beyond "maybe some sort of worm or something."

HEEEELLLLPPP!!!! That thing! I know it exists. What is it? If you don't know, how would you find out? Arrrgghhh!

(thank you)

--R

ETA: Thank you, all! Caddisfly larvae does sound like what I was thinking of-- dash it all that they're freshwater, not marine. Now I need to think about whether that will still work... (Many thanks, ab3nd for your worm suggestions-- they might be better.) You are all excellent!

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Since I'm not doing any homework for school... :D

[wherdragon.livejournal.com]

So, I'm not sure if this is at all what you were thinking about, but this adorable fish is what I thought of when I read this. It's a Yellow Headed Jawfish.

I found it by sucessively searching for "detritus fish" "detritus fish tube" (which brought up a lot of Bivalve and Mollusk info, oddly), "digger fish" (which brought up this video), and then I tried to think about how would people describe this in dumb Google terms? Rock spitting fish? and that brought up a YouTube video which described the Yellow Headed Jawfish, and that's the link first here!

If that's not what you're looking for, I'd go about it like that. "Detritus Nests", if you haven't tried it already, isn't going to help. :( Also, I found that putting "nest" anywhere in the search just brought lots of bird-things into it. Which is interesting, but probably not what you're looking for.

[kivrin.livejournal.com]

Awww SHOOT. I feel like I know this. I feel like it comes up in one of the Melendy books by Elizabeth Enright. Randy (Miranda) finds one of the tubes in the stream and there's a diamond in it and she sells the diamond and buys a war bond and feels awesome. And she describes the tube as a [something] case. Something starting with C. I have "coracle" and "caryatid" in my head but neither are right.

[pause for messing about with the Amazon "look inside" feature]

In The Four-Story Mistake the tube is called a "caddis house."

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

It's the caddis fly larva, and it's actually freshwater.

http://www.flyfishusa.com/flies/cadlarva-2.htm

http://www.freshwaterlife.org/imagearchive/main.php?g2_itemId=4439

[ab3nd.livejournal.com]

Sandcastle worms make a tube from bits of sand and shell:
http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=111008-1&showAllPhotos=true

So do giant featherduster worms:
http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=182

Apparently, that's a pretty common thing for polychaete worms to do:
http://www.google.com/images?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=Diopatra+cuprea&oe=utf-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=N9PmTKCxMsP78AbXkvmkDQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCAQsAQwAA&biw=1032&bih=831

[sovay]

So-- there is a kind of marine animal which builds nests/tubes out of detritus it finds-- sand, coral, shells, small stones. And the nests are pretty cool-looking.

If you were thinking of fresh water, it's famously the caddisfly. In the sea, yikes. I'll have to think about this.

[zeret18.livejournal.com]

I don't know why but I keep having the urge to catch up. Not sure if you got my message. E-mail me?

[orawnzva.livejournal.com]

You were thinking of caddisflies, which are fresh-water, but depending on your needs yo have options. If you are writing in a secondary world, you can make up a salt-water caddisfly. There are a number of real salt-water animals that build nests out of stuff or cover themselves with stuff or otherwise allow themselves to become encrusted with stuff, typically for protective purposes. (Protective porpoises?) Check out the decorator crab, for example.

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