ID please

[sharynmarie]

they are growing on one place on some live rock I got..

 

[madadi]

looks like hydroids. if they grow out of control they can kill corals. i have some in my tank. i try to kalk paste them when im not lazy.

 

[sharynmarie]

I dont know.. they almost remind me of xenia only small and brown.. but maybe so far they havent spread much at all

 

[mbierzyc]

Aptasia. It's a pest and you should get rid of them if possible.

 

[sharynmarie]

its not aptasia I have had them. looks nothing like them

 

[kawicivic]

might need better pics then cuz it looks like aiptasia to me too

 

[JPagliai]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13015991#post13015991 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kawicivic
might need better pics then cuz it looks like aiptasia to me too

I agree. Looks like aptasia.

 

[Edward Smith]

The tentacles are "fuzzy" ? Aptasia doesn't have fuzzy tentacles. Definitely need a closer shot.

 

[McLaughlin4]

If you are talking about the brown anemone looking things 100% Aptasia .So this statement "its not aptasia I have had them. looks nothing like them" you must have had something else

 

[sharynmarie]

Looking at the picture I can see where it looks like that. but I am telling you its not in person.. he is another shot. and yes the arms are fuzzy..

thats about as close as I can get to it .. they don't curl back when you touch them. they don't seem to do anything if you touch them lol.

actully.. the best compairison I can tget is they look like the "feathers" on this

but they are brown

 

[Rod Buehler]

its appears to be some anthelia, or possibly some briarium butt its not aptasia

 

[mm949]

what he said..^^....minus the butt...lol

 

[ostrow]

Rod: the top picture, not the bottom, is not what needed the id! And much as I hate to and rare as it is for me to disagree with Rod, what I see in that top picture doesn't look like any briarium I have ever seen either live or in photos.

Too fuzzy to rule out anthelia (though I thought that stuff would retract when you touch it. Too long since I had anthelia to recall for sure).

It look like any hydroid I have seen or any that Ron Shimeck ever posted in articles I have read on those.

I still think the photos look a lot like aiptasia. Does your camera have a close-up setting???? If so, try that ... you'll get a clearer photo.

 

[sharynmarie]

Close up setting just blurrs everything in the tank. its not the best camera.. I plan on getting a better camera for this soon.

 

[Rod Buehler]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13019732#post13019732 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ostrow
Rod: the top picture, not the bottom, is not what needed the id! And much as I hate to and rare as it is for me to disagree with Rod, what I see in that top picture doesn't look like any briarium I have ever seen either live or in photos.

Too fuzzy to rule out anthelia (though I thought that stuff would retract when you touch it. Too long since I had anthelia to recall for sure).

It look like any hydroid I have seen or any that Ron Shimeck ever posted in articles I have read on those.

I still think the photos look a lot like aiptasia. Does your camera have a close-up setting???? If so, try that ... you'll get a clearer photo.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13018706#post13018706 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rod Buehler
its appears to be some anthelia, or possibly some briarium butt its not aptasia

I do agree that its probably not briarium because there is no mat, but when trying an ID from photos.. I still stand behind anthellia

 

[sharynmarie]

And after looking up good pics.. it does look like ittty bitty anthellia.

 

[steri]

I really think it's a brown anthelia. That's my guess, and I got plenty of Anthelia in my tank to compare it to, except mine's pink

 

[McLaughlin4]

I have anthelia in my tank I will try to post a picture

 

[Bluespot22]

I say aipitasia.Better safe than sorry.

 

[sharynmarie]

Its not aipitasia lol.