Baby Anemone?

[Grenade Glass]

Call me crazy, but I think I have a baby anemone in my tank. 72 hours ago I purchased this BTA and 2 onyx clown fish. Tonight when I got home from work I fed the BTA and was watching the tank when something caught my eye. Looks like somehow a baby anemone has popped up. Way way to small to be from a split, so I have no idea where this came from... any insight? (baby is upper right side of rock)

 

[Grenade Glass]

just some more pics of my new acquisitions

BTA:

close up of BTA mouth:

Close up of Onyx:

Onyx together:

Onyx and BTA:

FTS:

 

[clowns101]

Looks like it could be a little red Majono!

 

[bues0022]

Those clowns also appear to be A.Ocellaris, not an onyx variety of A. Percula. Though, in a BTA the colors can morph a bit. In any case, those are very good looking clowns. I only thought I'd put my .02 for ID purposes...

 

[OrionN]

The small anemone is a Majono, a pest anemone. You should kill it quickly, although they will not grow and multiply as quickly and aptasia. The clowns are normal A. ocellaris, not percula. Ocellaris can have dark color like that. The border between Black and Orange in A. percula is usually very sharp, not blend from black to orange like your fish.

 

[lhm nole]

Just finished plucking about 50 of them out of my nano that I got from some live rock from a friends tank.

 

[garygb]

Yeah, those are pretty fish, but not true perculas, they are ocellaris. And I also believe that baby anemone is a majanoe.

 

[Grenade Glass]

thanks, gonna use aptasia x on it. its the only one I see. weird though ive had this tank setup 6 months and never seen it until I put the nem in.

And they are onyx clowns, just not finished changing yet. check out the male:

 

[garygb]

wow, look like different fish. I can see that they're percs now. Very nice ones too.

 

[blownz281]

where can I get these clowns at?

 

[Grenade Glass]

thanks

Blownz281- I purchased them from a local fish breeder here in rochester ny

 

[OrionN]

I think your fish are not fully A. percula. I think they are hybrid. The female is clearly Ocellaris while the male while have some characteristic of A. percula, he also seem to have mostly Ocellaris characteristic. I know some hybrid of black Ocellaris and Onyx percular looks very much like your's, even with much more black.