better pic, id help please....

[leveldrummer]

ok guys, this is better, but still not great, hope it helps you help me, i have two of these now, and one moved, over night. it totally relocated...

[Reefneck]

Now THAT looks like Aptasia!

And that would explain the movement....Aptasia moves.

[fishfingers]

I don't think its an aiptasia, the stalk and tenticles aren't long enough. Also aiptasia don't usually have that many rows of tenticles (it's a bit hard to tell from the photo but the thing seems to have to or three rows). Maybe its a different species to the ones I've seen though. Now I'm hopeless at identifying corals, but I think it looks like a mini fluffy corallimorph, and I know that the can more too. A question, does it have a mouth in the middle?

[Reefneck]

Here's a test......Reach in and touch it! Does it retract into itself or the rock? If so......Aptasia.

[TheOldSalt]

Hmmm...ya know, at first glance I thought it was aiptasia, but now I have to admit that it does superficially look like something else, like a little baby soft coral or a sabellid worm. It could just as easily be a regenerated stump from a cut-down anemone, though, and in fact if I had to guess that would be my guess. Yep,that's my guess; somehow the anemone got cut/torn either accidentally or deliberately,but the stump remained, and now it's got a new crown of tentacles which are still stubby.

Are the tentacles plain, or are there little radiating extensions on the tips, like you would see in a Xenia coral, for example?

[redpaulhus]

Anemonia majano perhaps ?

[leveldrummer]

mojano is what im gettin everywhere else, def not aptasia, it does have a mouth in the middle, it doesnt have little radiating extensions on the tips, but the tips do blub out just a little. the only thing about the mojano is that it seems to be solid tentacles, not an open disc in the center like this... any other guesses? should i ditch it just to be safe?

[Fishfirst]

hmmm... Doesn't look like the aipitasia I have in my tank, although at first glance it kinda looked like it. It mostly resembles my hairy mushroom coral.

[TheOldSalt]

Well, based on the multi-row arrangement of tentacles and the fact that the tentacles bulb-out a bit at their ends, I'd have to say that it is a Majano anemone.
The solid brown color threw me, I guess, since every Majano I've ever seen ( which hasn't been very many, really ) was green over a brown base, but I sure they must come in plain brown as well.

Actually, I rather like Majanos, but then again I've never had them cause me any grief. Come to think of it, the same is true for Aiptasias; in fact I used to tryto grow them in mass quantity for feeding to butterflyfishes.

[Reefneck]

I would tend to agree upon further review. I however have a host of aptasia in my wife's tank and some of them are very similar in appearence.

Either way, Not a good thing to keep around. I'll be going on an eradication mission before long. I bought 60lbs of live rock for $60 from a man taking his tank down and it's covered with aptasia. He told us that up front though and at that price I couldn't pass it up. Also got a nice Gorilla crab out of the rock. He's as big as the palm of my wifes hand. Another one that got evicted! He's in my fuge now and going to a friends predator tank Monday.

[leveldrummer]

im gonna let the little guys hang out untill i notice them starting to split, if they try to reproduce, they are gone, but so far they just hang out and eat, i had a couple tiny aipatasia come in on a frag a recently picked up, but the peppermint shrimp tore those out asap. (either that or they moved, or are just sucked down into the rock) they were really tiny. im also starting to notice baby feather dusters (or some other type of filter worms)