Hello - I have registered before on this forum but it has been so long and so much has happened since I last got on that I have lost both password and username info, including the email that I used to register last time. So I am 'anew.'
I wanted to post the following pic to see if its possible to ID it. To give a bit of background: we had a much larger tank about a year ago with another anemone that died. Long story short, we got rather discouraged with trying to start such a big tank so we decided to reduce it to a five gallon with the remaining live rock that we had and only got a small Ocellis clown fish to keep in it. Im afraid we neglected that tank beyond keeping it fed and having a few 'cleaners' in with the fish, so the live rock itself sat in the water for some time. Finally my husband decided to get a fresh new tank and 'start over'. He bought an even smaller tank, about 2.5 gallons, actually RINSED the rock with tap water (thinking he would just have to start over with reinvigorating them again) and placed them along with the clown fish and new sand into the tank with new salt water. Amazingly the clownfish lived through all of this and is still going strong, along with a hermit crab and another snail. When we saw that the new tank had pretty much survived the transfer, we went ahead and bought a new yellow goby.
A few weeks went by with us happy with our new saltwater aquarium when my husband noticed something growing on one of the live rocks (there are only two in the tank). Turns out it was a teeny tiny anemone! We have both been diligent in trying to keep it fed and making sure the lighting is adequate (although I know in short time we will have to move the rock to a bigger tank and get much better lighting than it has now.
it has grown to perhaps about 6mm big (best guess) and appears to have tentacles that are 'clear' with purple/white tips. It has wolfed down any krill I have encouraged it to eat, and also appears to have a 'baby brother' just below it in the picture.
I'm terrible about identifying biological organisms like these - I had come across some pics that look the most like this youngin' - pics of the jewel anemone. I am hoping that someone can tell me it is something a bit more interesting than that. I like to think that perhaps some polyps came into the tank with one of the fish. So far they both seem very happy with their situation.
Im sorry for the poor quality of the pic - I had to use my camera phone.
I wanted to post the following pic to see if its possible to ID it. To give a bit of background: we had a much larger tank about a year ago with another anemone that died. Long story short, we got rather discouraged with trying to start such a big tank so we decided to reduce it to a five gallon with the remaining live rock that we had and only got a small Ocellis clown fish to keep in it. Im afraid we neglected that tank beyond keeping it fed and having a few 'cleaners' in with the fish, so the live rock itself sat in the water for some time. Finally my husband decided to get a fresh new tank and 'start over'. He bought an even smaller tank, about 2.5 gallons, actually RINSED the rock with tap water (thinking he would just have to start over with reinvigorating them again) and placed them along with the clown fish and new sand into the tank with new salt water. Amazingly the clownfish lived through all of this and is still going strong, along with a hermit crab and another snail. When we saw that the new tank had pretty much survived the transfer, we went ahead and bought a new yellow goby.
A few weeks went by with us happy with our new saltwater aquarium when my husband noticed something growing on one of the live rocks (there are only two in the tank). Turns out it was a teeny tiny anemone! We have both been diligent in trying to keep it fed and making sure the lighting is adequate (although I know in short time we will have to move the rock to a bigger tank and get much better lighting than it has now.
it has grown to perhaps about 6mm big (best guess) and appears to have tentacles that are 'clear' with purple/white tips. It has wolfed down any krill I have encouraged it to eat, and also appears to have a 'baby brother' just below it in the picture.
I'm terrible about identifying biological organisms like these - I had come across some pics that look the most like this youngin' - pics of the jewel anemone. I am hoping that someone can tell me it is something a bit more interesting than that. I like to think that perhaps some polyps came into the tank with one of the fish. So far they both seem very happy with their situation.
Im sorry for the poor quality of the pic - I had to use my camera phone.
