Baby anemone ID needed?

[landragon]

This an anemone.That I am sure of. It has a foot, and it very motile. It is the size of an average zoanthid. It was a hitchiker. On the second bag in between two bags, in a shipment I received from an onlline vendor. Any guesses. From initial exam, it does not appear to be a majano. My guess is BTA

 

[landragon]

As far as size goes, it is about the size of a single tentacle as shown above on a 17" monitor.

 

[55semireef]

Where did you order your lr by chance. Some dealers are reputable for certain hitchikers.

 

[landragon]

It was on the second bags surface, in between the two bags, in a double bagged coral shipment. Not on live rock. It was wet, and is apparently doing quite well now. It ate cyclopeeze.

 

[BonsaiNut]

It looks like a corallimorph to me, though it could be just about anything. If I HAD to chose a clown anemone, I would guess E. quadricolor, because I have seen them that small before.

 

[TOURKID]

sure its not a mojano?

 

[phender]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7405701#post7405701 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TOURKID
sure its not a mojano?

That is what I would have said, mojano.

 

[TOURKID]

I pulled my mojano off with tweers, it was very close to moon polyps, but I LOVE joes juice for killing my pests.

 

[55semireef]

you killed it?

 

[dantodd]

my vote is mojano too.

 

[landragon]

What you can not see from the pic, is the rows of central tentacles, totally uncommon to majano, IME. I have pulled close to a hundred majano anemonia out of tanks, and off corals. This does not act tlike one. It acts like a Ritteri, and looks like a RBTA. I have never seen a foot on a majano like this in person or in pics. Radial ridges are plentiful, terminating in a small nodule. Very like BTA. Here is a better shot. It had to be enhanced from a smaller shot, so excuse the quality. Remember, this is 3-4mm at most. It mved a tiny bit after I took this pic. It spread out its foot, digging it into a crevice on the back side of the rock it rests upon.

Still leaning towards E.Quadricolor.

 

[55semireef]

WOw that is small. I say its a RBTA.

 

[Azurel]

There are many anemones in the ocean just keep it and feed it if it get bigger and doesn't cause any problems I'm sure it will be easier to find out what type it is. It don't look like a majano to me either. BTAs can get ripped apart and create new anemones from the pieces or so I have heard, maybe it is some thing like that.

 

[landragon]

Fingers are crossed for that outcome. It will be my favorite hitchiker for sure if so. Also, it's foot often is wider than it's oral disc.

 

[55semireef]

I say its some type of BTA just by the looks, definately not a majano

 

[55semireef]

The coolest hitchiker I ever got was a barnicle, lots of them. lol

i wish I could get an anemone as a hitchiker

 

[landragon]

And possibly a RBTA to boot. My buddy got a pair of Shrimp gobys. Cream with orange diagonal bands, with a blue streak actoss the face. Never identified them, but they came in his dry rock, drop shipped to him. He dumped out the first water from the tub on his driveway in the water change. Out flopped flotsam and jetsam. They burrowed nicely into his 300, and still beat up any new gobys he gets.

 

[55semireef]

WOw thats amazing. See, I wish I could get something like that. I knew someone that got a puffer by accident in their liverock when they bought it at a lfs.

Acutally the coolest hitchhiker I ever got were lots of little brittle stars.

But I think you have some type of BTA. I would target feed it to make it grow fast. Right now I got a small green Ricordia frag smaller than a nickel and I am target feeding it 3 days a week to get it nice and big.

 

[landragon]

Those are my exact plans.

 

[OrangeKoi]

That anemonea is the perfect size for my 5.5 gallon!