FRIEND - or - FOE... !!!???!? (id)

[atxryan]

So would a mejano a friend or foe? is it an LPS?

 

[jb61264]

majano is definitely a foe...they will reproduce and overtake your take like aiptasia

 

[ellevan11]

I am going with the consensus, Torch.

 

[LukFox]

They both look like torches to me. Majanos have more tapered tentacles with a gradient at the tips. Both of these just have a cut off at the tip and suddenly green bulbs, like a torch. If it's a majano you should be able to see if it has an anemone foot on the bottom, too, so that's something to check. It should still look different than a torch without its skeleton.

 

[john rochon]

both look like torchs to me as well.

 

[Ohiomom]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15247078#post15247078 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Neptune's Oasis
come on cough it up...
what are you thinking it is?


still convinced its a majano until proven otherwise
but willing to hear counter offers


here is a good thread for reference from the sps forum
there are many images for comparison.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1202166&perpage=25&pagenumber=2


regards

wasn't referring to you.. and I think it is a torch..easy way to say for sure..OP does it have a skeleton like the picture on the left? If so not an amemone for sure...

 

[Santoki]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15245160#post15245160 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ohiomom
nope, not even close..

I'm not sure how you can be so certain in your comment, as the backside of the specimen in question was not in view in the original picture.
Pictures posted later clearly shows a lack of skeleton, which rules out any corals from the Euphyllia genus. Majano is as good a guess as any when made without full knowledge of skeletal/or lack of skeletal structure.
Entacmaea quadricolors, or plain ol' bubble tip anemones illustrates the various forms an anemone can take, exhibiting almost no bubbles in some environments and long stringy tentacles in others, so identification by tentacle shape is not reliable either. Without a skeleton, it almost certainly is some type of anemone, which is always a gamble to put into a reef tank.

 

[kvn1691]

I have those in my tank, its a hybrid coral. Like it is a mix of two corals from the same genus and species. I don't know the name but i know they are friends.

 

[jb61264]

Just out of curiousity...if the second one was a majano, would there not be any "warfare" going on between the two? or can they coexist next to each other peacefully?...is this true of majanos and all other corals?

 

[Anemonebuff]

They are both euphyllia sp. The one on the left looks like a frogspawn being that the white dots are not just at the tips. The one on the right is a torch. It either was fragged and the flesh is looking for something to attach to or it budded off of it's parent colony.

 

[romsoccer12]

if you look in the picture with the jar, the one on the right has a foot thus being some sort of an anemone.

 

[steve70]

I'd say put them in a seperate tank and see what happens.
They do resemble frogspawn and torch to me to.

 

[K' Family Reef]

as many others thought
i first believed it was a euphyllia that had some how come off its skeleton... although have never seen that happen in my tank seems very possible...

after seeing it in the specimen jar sitting in the fuge
am nearly 'certain' its a majano... surprising that after so long they showed up again... gone unnoticed and my wife and i always kept an eye out for them!

if it grows a skeleton and starts looking more like one of the euphyllias
then i will post it back to this thread...

or

when the majanos start to cover all my LR and corals
will post a pic of that TOO!



one way or another heard that majestic angels eat majanos
so plan to get one of these fish - so perhaps they would keep the majano population in check!


thanks to all who replied to this thread

:thumbsup:

regards

 

[saltyg135er]

+1 for torch

 

[LukFox]

From what I can tell the "foot" doesn't look like a clean anemone's foot though. It looks like it's falling apart at the base? Maybe it's just the picture. It's hard to tell what I'm looking at exactly, but it doesn't look like an anemone foot unless it's one that got stuck in a power head. The top doesn't look hurt though, which makes me still lean towards coral.

 

[str1988]

Friend for sure

 

[Anemonebuff]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15251807#post15251807 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Neptune's Oasis
as many others thought
i first believed it was a euphyllia that had some how come off its skeleton... although have never seen that happen in my tank seems very possible...

after seeing it in the specimen jar sitting in the fuge
am nearly 'certain' its a majano... surprising that after so long they showed up again... gone unnoticed and my wife and i always kept an eye out for them!

if it grows a skeleton and starts looking more like one of the euphyllias
then i will post it back to this thread...

or

when the majanos start to cover all my LR and corals
will post a pic of that TOO!



one way or another heard that majestic angels eat majanos
so plan to get one of these fish - so perhaps they would keep the majano population in check!


thanks to all who replied to this thread

:thumbsup:

regards

Positive, not a majano.

 

[K' Family Reef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15255296#post15255296 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Anemonebuff
Positive, not a majano.

.............................. based on??????

thanks!

regards