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[spineshank385]

It was a hitchhiker on my LR from the very beginning. It has assexually reproduced a total of 5 times now, for a total of 6 polyps. Polyps are a very cool greenish brown color when they first bud, then fae to the brown/white coloration when they rech full size (about the size of a nickel). Buds then seperate from mother polpy and move a short distance away.

 

[furforfour]

I have some of those which also came in as hitch hikers, their skirts are a bit shorter. They are either proto-palythoa or zoanthus gigantus, there has been some discussion lately as to which are which.

 

[msman825]

I say a Anemone

 

[spineshank385]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7858097#post7858097 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by msman825
I say a Anemone

its not an anemone

 

[Azurel]

I don't think it is an anemone either....But man those skirts are really long.....That is a real cool picture....

 

[twon8]

actually i believe those are palythoas,

 

[twon8]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7853517#post7853517 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by furforfour
I have some of those which also came in as hitch hikers, their skirts are a bit shorter. They are either proto-palythoa or zoanthus gigantus, there has been some discussion lately as to which are which.

def not zoanthid gigantus, nor any zoanthid, these pictured take up sand into the base,

 

[spineshank385]

i was leaning towards palys....either way, they LOVE mysis shrimp....

 

[john76]

looks like aptasia

 

[spineshank385]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7861003#post7861003 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by john76
looks like aptasia

*** are you smoking???

 

[surfnvb7]

i say some sort of paly also.

when i looked at how long the skirt is, i'm tempted to say some sort of anemone. but you can clearly see the stalk and another polyp emerging from the base.

any chance you can get a pic of the polyp closed up? (i.e. blow on it with a turkey baster)

 

[spineshank385]

ill try to remember to do that tomorrow

 

[spineshank385]

its budded 2 polyps that have completely seperated from the parent stalk, and has 2 more small ones that are still attached so far. Lately, it has been budding more and faster than it ever has before.

 

[jallard]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7861057#post7861057 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by spineshank385
*** are you smoking???

why is aptasia so hard for you to accept.....I say aptasia too

fwiw I have never seen a paly with a skirt that long

 

[spineshank385]

because i know what aiptasia looks like. Having been a supervisor at That Fish Place for 2 years, been keeping reef tanks for 5 years, i THINK i know what aiptasia is.

Aiptasia doesn't have a rough, leathery texture to it. Aiptasia doesnt bud daughter colonies. Aiptaisia is mostly brown. not green.


maybe you should take that 2 years of experience into the newbie forums, and stop polluting my thread with things i (and others) have already ruled out

 

[spineshank385]

here's a poor picture of it from 4 months or so ago. Only the single large polyp, under 10k lighting, in the middle of the algae bloom. Its slightly closed up.

 

[RevHtree]

I vote palys.

 

[smp]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7861381#post7861381 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by spineshank385
because i know what aiptasia looks like. Having been a supervisor at That Fish Place for 2 years, been keeping reef tanks for 5 years, i THINK i know what aiptasia is.

Aiptasia doesn't have a rough, leathery texture to it. Aiptasia doesnt bud daughter colonies. Aiptaisia is mostly brown. not green.


maybe you should take that 2 years of experience into the newbie forums, and stop polluting my thread with things i (and others) have already ruled out

That's some attitude you've got there.

 

[spineshank385]

lol sorry, it was late, and i was pretty freaking tired.

i just dont like uneducated answers like that. If you're going to contribute to a thread, at least make it relevant. I've ruled out aiptasia from day 1. It has never looked, or acted like aiptasia.

the budding further supported ruling out aiptasia, or any kind of anemone. Anemones split. This polyp buds. You can clearly see that in the picture.

 

[twon8]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7862603#post7862603 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by smp
That's some attitude you've got there.

He knows it's not aptasia, as do I, so I can understand being a little upset when someone asks him why he can't accept that,

I have seen paly's with skirts that long, and that is what they are.