Any idea what this is, coral?

[bobpiker]

Hello,

For a couple of weeks I've noticed about 3 heads or polyps of whatever this is. It arrived on the rock with my neon green toadstool already attached. Each of these are about 3/8" in size but next to one another. They stay open all day and night, have a dark greenish tint and have slight movement in my current but appear to be mostly rigid. I thought maybe there were duncan. They're a bit larger than when they arrived but I haven't a clue.

Thanks,
Bob

 

[ghostman]

Hard to tell. My first guess would be clove polyps. If they have a hard base to them, I would say a distant guess would be galaxia. Nice hitchhiker!!!

 

[Anemonebuff]

Looks like clove polps to me.

 

[m_wonnacott]

nope sry to say those or mojano (spelling) anemones

 

[con999]

nope sry to say those or mojano (spelling) anemones

no not at all. i would say clove or even GPS

 

[SDguy]

Agreed with the others...looks like clove polyps.

 

[m_wonnacott]

http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=...ibCg&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=30&ved=1t:429,r:19,s:0

http://www.melevsreef.com/pics/bta/not/majano.html

I beg to differ I have seen a number of post showing the same thing and here is a link to a pic of a mojano

 

[spieszak]

This "identify the majano" game is getting harder and harder for me. Can anyone comment on what they see that makes these NOT majano?

 

[SDguy]

I've never seen a majano with a stripe running from the center up each tentacle to the tips.

 

[con999]

the green and the rest of the colors. i can also see what i think is a mat. and thats what their growing from

 

[demonclownfish]

nope sry to say those or mojano (spelling) anemones

no they arent

 

[con999]

ok i saw the links now look up the coral were talking about, clove

 

[spieszak]

Thanks Peter. I appreciate the follow up.

 

[m_wonnacott]

people google clove polyps and mojano anemone and i think its prity clear that is not clove polyps but mojano anem

 

[SDguy]

Thanks Peter. I appreciate the follow up.

NP

Plus...I'm counting 8 tentacles on each...aren't cloves octocorals?

 

[con999]

people google clove polyps and mojano anemone and i think its prity clear that is not clove polyps but mojano anem

their not even close

 

[spieszak]

con999 Thanks also. So, I don't see a "mat" but I don't know what I'm looking for. Are you saying a majano would have a single foot like a nem, where these guys have something more interconnected?

 

[con999]

NP

Plus...I'm counting 8 tentacles on each...aren't cloves octocorals?

+1
lok at the pic he posted. it has 2 rows od tenicals. this coral only has 8 all togethert.

 

[con999]

con999 Thanks also. So, I don't see a "mat" but I don't know what I'm looking for. Are you saying a majano would have a single foot like a nem, where these guys have something more interconnected?

thats what i think im seeing but idk. and ya majano would have a singal foot.

 

[SDguy]

Unfortunately I have plenty of majanos to compare to Those aren't majanos....