aiptasia

surfingdude

surfingdude

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does these glow under fluorescent...i have a very small something that is on my toadstool rock and its glowing. went to to go after it and it just closed up completely...very tiny.
 
I believed they pop under blue light. Look closely at it, does it have pointed tips or bubble tips? if bubble then it is majano. Mojano are a bit more colorful than aiptasia.
Use kalk paste to kill it.
 
Pics?
Maybe a colonial hydroid?

I don't remember aiptasia fluorescing but its been a while..
Hydroids do though.. I've got a few patches of green glowing ones now..
 
Aiptasia are usually a dark brown color. I don't think they would "glow". It sounds like it could be another coral growing or mojano.
 
it is so small, tough to get a picture...i treid turning the the white lights on to get a pic but bam, it went in...even if i get close, bam! in again. and its spontaneous, like a nano second to completely retract. I can get a pic with blue but just hard to make it out. Once its in, you cant hardly see it except for a small flourescent dot, size of a pin head...when out, its 3 or 4x the size. If aiptasia, dont think it would retract spontanuosly. whatever it is, its very skidish.
 
the chlorophyll in aiptasia will show red-orange florescence under UV LED's (actual UV, under 380 nm, not 405 nm Near UV) but I have never seen it with GFP.

Without a picture I am going also going to guess hyrdoid (I have had these show up florescent green under blue LED) or a polyp of some sort.
 
mojano do glow under blue light. got frags from someone last week. has 2 mojano on them, under regular light couldn't see them under blue they glowed very green, they where actually very beautiful, almost didn't want to scrap them off with a razor blade
 
i think its a tiny Feather worm polyp or something similar if it retracts that quick just by introducing some light...
 
Here is the pic...iam thinking feather duster too. Whatever it is, every time I get near the darn thing it literally vanishes in a sec. May just wait it out and let it grow and see what happens. This was my first toadstool and had it for a month and half and didn't notice it until last night.

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