does anyone know what this is?

[Dan Binderup]

Hi.
i recently purchased a rock with som mushrooms, but there was another thing on there. and i can't seem to find out what it is. I have narrow it down to these two things :
a Anemonia cf. majano
or some sort of ricordea.
what do guys... and girls think?
Denmark

(the last pic. is just to show the only two living things i my tank.

best regards
Dan Binderup
Denmark

 

[bassist6108]

Majano IMO. They're kinda pretty... if they weren't pests.

 

[mikekman]

Look like majanos but then almost like a ricordia yuma. Take a better pic, the mouth is what I'd like to see. If it has a raised mouth with lots of little pimples, then its a yuma.

 

[afelder]

It might also be a fuzzy mushroom. I got a couple like it on my last live rock purchase.

 

[Dan Binderup]

ok. thaks for your replies. i think i let i be for now, and if it starts to spread it will get the knife

 

[Jamokie01]

No thats def a majano, not a ric.

 

[fishyz]

Try feeding it to see if it closes like an anemone. I don't know if mushrooms close when fed.

 

[aquarius77]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10626909#post10626909 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishyz
Try feeding it to see if it closes like an anemone. I don't know if mushrooms close when fed.

Some do.



I would leave it, i think it is a mushroom.

 

[Hormigaquatica]

Ive seen several of these come in as hitchhikers on mushroom and zoanthid rocks lately. They are anemones, though I do not know what kind.

These do not seem to be as aggressive as aptasia- Ive had them right in the middle of zoanthid colonies, and none of the zoas were reacting like they were being stung. They do remind me a little bit of A. majano, but I do not believe they are the same thing.

I would pull it out of there at any rate- before you wind up with tons of them all over the tank.

 

[cro55f1r3]

in a way it looks like a yuma but im not totally sure

 

[Dan Binderup]

wow....
that is alot of different suggestions to what the little fellow is. i got a new shot that might shed some new light on the matter.
this is a nightshot.

best regards
Dan Binderup

 

[GoingPostal]

I have some rhodactis mushrooms that look exactly like that as babies.

 

[LockeOak]

One way to tell would be if it moves quickly... mojanos can almost visibly walk around, a couple of inches an hour. Of course, you might not be able to find it.

 

[prncalbrt]

it is a mojanos, i have one also and just have not gotten around to plucking the pest out. pluck it while you can

 

[Dan Binderup]

it haven't moved an inch!

 

[russ49merc]

majanos don't do that..... it has to be a mushroom

 

[mikekman]

Dan, please take more closeup pics like the one you took of it closed up. Take more of it opened. It really does look like a ricordia yuma. When they close up, they look just like that pic.

More pics!!!

 

[Dan Binderup]

update.
it still have not moved. it is besome a little bigger, but not much.
here is a new pic.

best regards
Dan Binderup
Denmark

 

[mikekman]

Ok, thats a majano. Try and kill it before it takes over your tank!!

 

[russ49merc]

it's a mushroom keep it