Another Identify..

[Payne]

1. Maybe a shroom?
2. I had a buddy say this was dreaded aptasia. is he correct?

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk5/Payne33/1.jpg

3. Dreaded aptasia or zoas?

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk5/Payne33/4.jpg

4. Some weird gray matter?

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk5/Payne33/3.jpg

5. Maybe a shroom?

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk5/Payne33/2.jpg

Thanks again I still got lots to learn..

[nano-newbie]

Some look like feather dusters and some look like aptasia at least to a noob

[smeese]

The last one looks like a LPS maybe enchino that has suffered some die off, and may recover, the grey matter is sponge, and the aiptasia do look more like palys of some sort. Get a better pic maybe. Aiptasia are all brown if that helps

[Chad Vossen]

feather dusters! grey blob looks like a sponge. dunno about that mushroom thing, might be!


actually after looking again, those "feather dusters" look more like zoanthids, or palys...

[Redwinger]

1. 2. and 3. Look like majano or aptasia either way bad.


4. Sponge, good

5. is hard to tell from the picture.

[dougers31]

zoas/palys, mushroom, maybe some kind of sponge, and either lps or more shrooms. I didn't see anything that looked like aiptasia or f.dusters to me.

You so lucky!!! I never get anything good on live rock except F.dusters.....oh wait, I did get 2 christmas tree worms about 13 years ago, may they rest in peace:cry:

[hypertech]

I don't know, those paly/anemone things seems to be scattered about in the tank. A zoa or paly would tend to grow in a grouping.

Zoas have a mat - are they all connected together? If so, no problems.

Palys have a stalk that they can't retract. If you touch/bother them with something do they retract all they way to the rock? An aiptasia can do that, a paly cannot.

I've not dealt with majanos before so I don't know much about them.

[gruntmon]

The top ones look kinda like the baby aptasias we had, I would look at getting a couple of peppermint shrimp. They would be small enough that the peppers could clean them up.

[Payne]

they do not retract into a rock they have a stalk.

FYI this rock was mature for over a year in another tank according to the supplier. then went tank to tank.

Nothing in here is brown like aptasia in regards to what i researched. everything has a lightblue center and they look like something i would want to keep.

[gruntmon]

If there is blue on it, then more than likely not aptasia, the aps I had where all white.

[kerks01]

Poke the things you think might be aiptasia. If they disappear into the rock then they are aiptasia (that's how I identified some that I got on a frag).

[Payne]

nothing disappears they just close up. They also have pointed edges. not like aptasia where they look more anenome like. or jelly.

[saltysailor]

they are payley zoas...and yes idont know how to spell that