Are these aptasias?

[jdog6973]

Just wondering if some one could identify the new inhabitants in my tank? Or redirect me to the proper forum.

 

[TOURKID]

those dont look like aptasia to me. are they forming a matt? (are they all connected by a solid looking goo at the base of them?)

 

[organism]

looks almost like an alveopora hitchhiker, I'd try posting this one in lps

 

[AquaReeferMan]

Could be hydriods. I doubt alveopora would last during the move.

 

[ClownReef®]

Yeah, i was thinking hydroids myself..

This will help you understand them more..

 

[organism]

hydroids grow with a calcified tube though, and judging from the location of this thing in the middle of the dead lps skeleton on that rock, I'd definitely say it's a coral.

jdog, can you wave your hand over them to get them to retract, and then take a pic?

 

[Juck]

Sure looks like an LPS

 

[jdog6973]

Here are the latest Pictures!!

Here are the latest Pictures!!

After waving algae magnet around them!!!

Thanks for all the help on identifying this stuff!! I love this site!!

 

[organism]

definitely an lps hitchhiker, most likely alveopora

 

[beaker77]

To me it looks like a Goniopora or Alveopora. I can't count the tenticles on the polyps from the picture (24 goni, 12 alveo). But it definatly looks like dead goniopora or alveopora skeleton around it. It also looks like it is encrusting the rock which I've never seen either species do. Hydroids do not have a skeleton like that.

 

[jdog6973]

Well thanks guys for all the help.