Identification please

[Glihon]

Tried my best to google and search here... no real confidence I found it.

Hopefully can attach photo. I have found about a dozen of these small polyps, mostly around the base of live rock where it meets the sand or in crevices with lower light. They are more open at night.

My best description would be translucent tentacles with white slightly bulbish tips. When closed the tentacles retract into purple/brown body which is nearly flat on the rock.

Any info would be great. As I can see a dozen there are probably 50 spread throughout. They are not clustered together but solo all around.

Thank you

 

[top shelf]

Harmless bulb tip anemone

 

[top shelf]

Tried my best to google and search here... no real confidence I found it.

Hopefully can attach photo. I have found about a dozen of these small polyps, mostly around the base of live rock where it meets the sand or in crevices with lower light. They are more open at night.

My best description would be translucent tentacles with white slightly bulbish tips. When closed the tentacles retract into purple/brown body which is nearly flat on the rock.

Any info would be great. As I can see a dozen there are probably 50 spread throughout. They are not clustered together but solo all around.

Thank you

Thats mine

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[LeJeune981]

Bubble nem as top said.. or I've seen them called strawberry anemones

I have quite a few... they are kinda pretty.. and once in a blue moon... I'll see one fully open.. floating around the tank.. looking for a new home..
Harmless... Maybe even benificial?
I even got one living on the side of my branching frogspawn

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[homer1475]

I've also seen them called glass anemones. Harmless filter feeders.

 

[mcgyvr]

pseudocorynactis

 

[top shelf]

pseudocorynactis

I see what you did there lol

 

[Glihon]

Thank you all. Glad to hear harmless. They will not overpopulate? Feel like there are already a decent number. I thought was pretty cool at first but got a little concerned when I saw them in numbers.

 

[top shelf]

Most just leave em be but if your concerned you could cover them in kalk paste. Mix it just thick enough to suck up in a seringe, the ones from the salifert kit work well, and cover in that.

 

[billdogg]

pseudocorynactis

This is correct. They are often referred to as ball anemones although they are not actually in the anemone family.

They are definitely not glass anemones (aiptasia). They can reproduce to plague proportions, but that is the exception, not the rule. They are more likely to just go away on their own. They can also sting some corals, but I would let them be.

 

[billdogg]

oops. double post.

Multitasking on Sunday morning after a late night of poker - Don't try this at home kids.....

 

[Glihon]

Thank you. Nice relief