ID please!

[adamPL]

Can you help me identify what this is, and how can I get rid of this from my tank? It is a quarter of an inch big and it has spread on the live rock. I know it is not Majano.
thanks

 

[Reefing102]

my guess is some type of hydroid.

just not sure which one it specifically is

 

[D to the P]

With the feathered tentacles there I would guess a type of coral. I haven't seen aiptasia with tentacles like that before. It's just weird that it doesn't seem like they are connected to each other like star polyps or encrusting gorgonian would be. Interesting find.

 

[adamPL]

D.. they are connected to each other.

 

[ChrisKirkland]

Looks almost like clove or GSP (green star polyps that have been in low light)

 

[adamPL]

I did have green star polyps before, so definitely it is not this. Lighting what I have is 250HQI.

 

[D to the P]

I meant the polyps to each other, not the tentacles to the polyp. It looked like to me that the polyps weren't all part of one big growth.

I'm thinking it could be some type of encrusting gorgonian or something like that.

 

[Aquabucket]

A type of anthelia maybe?

 

[adamPL]

yea, the polyps are connected to each other with tiny line

 

[m2434]

I vote hydroids.

 

[bmartin]

I vote anthelia

 

[ebording]

interesting... i would almost say hydroid but i have never seen them that far apart. my guess is some type of coral such as anthelia

 

[adamPL]

OK, two more pics, 1 foot away from it.

 

[D to the P]

I thought they might be anthelia at first, but those polyps are usually bigger than the ones pictured here.

I could see them being hydriods. I've just never seen such a large outbreak of them.

 

[Jim Morrison]

there a type of clove(Anthelia) i have them all over in my tank they grow fast but arent agrressive

 

[reidcrandall]

+1 for hydroids.

 

[Jim Morrison]

Actually i believe they are Clavularia because Clavularia polyps are connected by stolons:roots like growths that adhere to the substate.

Anthelia polyps always arise from the basal encrusting mat.

 

[Fin Mike]

Why do you want to get rid of them? Are they a problem? If so, what are they doing that concerns you? Were you prepared for this interrogation? LOL

 

[Jim Morrison]

lol i dont think i would worry about them they dont bother anyhting in my tank and plus it would be almost imposssible to get rid there survivors

 

[Jim Morrison]

lol i dont think i would worry about them they dont bother anyhting in my tank and plus it would be almost imposssible to get rid there survivors