ID on this mushroom...please

[lori13]

This started out as a ball that wouldn't stay put. I super glued, I rubber banded and then just gave up that it would never settle down. Well now it has 6 inches above the sand bed. I have no idea how it managed to get up there!!!

So...what is it?

 

[poolkeeper1]

Looks like a Ricordia to me, I could be wrong as I am no mushroom expert.
Bill

 

[AdrianBryce]

Rhodactis maybe.

 

[commonstranger]

Id go with green hairy mushroom. Possibly a Ric but doubt its a Rho because most of those have very jagged edges.

 

[eyebedam]

It looks like a green hairy shroom to me also. If it's the same as the ones I have they get huge & will actually eat very small fish when they get bigger. I've seen mine do it to 2 barbershop gobies.

 

[andywe]

I am leaning towards a Yuma guys..the bubbles on the end are too big for green hairy's, at least from the pic offered.

 

[AdrianBryce]

^ this....I didn't think of yumas.

 

[lori13]

I am pretty sure this is a Yuma and that was what I was comparing it to and decided nope not that. So is this one a Yuma??

 

[andywe]

Yeah thats a Yuma alright. Remeber my orange one Lori?

 

[lori13]

Andy- I do remember it. I was really sure the pink one was Yuma and I have an orange Ric. The green one though doesn't look like either of them. The green has it's "tentacles" in little neat rows radiating from the mouth- I have looked at lots of pics and thought maybe St Thomas? or Rhodactis?

Attached pic of Ric

 

[andywe]

yes, what you attached i\last is a ric...Yuma is a close cousin, but the bubbling tips are the most distinct way I know of to tell the difference....the bubbling is a Yuma....thats what the original looks like to me.

 

[lori13]

I appreciate the help. I gave my sister a piece of it after the rubber band disaster (it split into pieces where the rubber band touched) and neither of us was sure what it was. Newbies!!!

Andy- Let your dear wife know that all the polyps are open and beautiful!!