Can anyone Identify?

[ccube]

I found this little polyp in one of my zoa colonies. It looks almost like a zoa spider, but it is a polyp and will retract just like a zoa if irritated. It has 6 arms? Is anyone familiar with this?

 

[flyyyguy]

its really hard to tell from the blurry pic......almost looks like the arms of a baby hells fire or similar anemone and the retracting could be consisntent with that

pinch it with your bare fingers and tell us how it feels to see if Im right :lol:

 

[ccube]

I touched it and nothing. It just closed up like the zoanthids around it. Very neat little invert whatever it is. I think it is too small to be a hell fire. I have had it for a long time (6 mo-ish) and it hasn't split or spread. This, I am guessing, is because it is surrounded by zoas and it is smaller than them. Can anyone else take a guess?

 

[YoungReefer06]

I carefully examine everything that comes into the place I work at, mostly in order to try to find neat little hitch hiker coral polyps. I find these little green guys hidden in zoa colonies on a fairly regular basis. I can tell you that they are anemones, but can not tell you what type. But definitely anemones.

 

[MUCHO REEF]

I carefully examine everything that comes into the place I work at, mostly in order to try to find neat little hitch hiker coral polyps. I find these little green guys hidden in zoa colonies on a fairly regular basis. I can tell you that they are anemones, but can not tell you what type. But definitely anemones.

I too examine, inspect every inch hole nook and cranny as well as a dip before anything enters my system.