is this a baby green carpet?

[Giglamesh]

natural shots give almost true colours.

edited using a facebook app to show the spots on it

 

[flare1185]

could also be a ricordia i got a bunch that looks like baby green carpet

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

one cannot tell from those pix if it's a carpet anemone- can you post a closer pic?

 

[Giglamesh]

ah cant really get better pics will try tomorrow. but it will walk if its a nem wont it?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

a lot of critters "walk"

 

[Giglamesh]

ok what flourecent green corals are capable of walking... that will narrow my choices if it moves

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

ok what flourecent green corals are capable of walking...

too many to list.

This thing might not be a coral or anemone.

 

[Giglamesh]

ah still kinda a noob but what else could it be? was sold to me as a morph but not like anything i have seen

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

ah still kinda a noob but what else could it be? was sold to me as a morph but not like anything i have seen

you purchased this critter by itself?

can you find out (reliably) where it was collected?

a macro picture is still the best way to take a short cut to proper identification

 

[Giglamesh]

lfs is fairly useless even by my standards. i will try to get a better shot of it tomorrow oce the lights are on it may expand more, might poke it to see if it reacts (are carpets the same as btas? poke and they retract) it has a foot like base almost as big as the head is in the photo. had to be collected in australian waters as importation of corals is illegal.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

had to be collected in australian waters as importation of corals is illegal.

yes- this really opens up the possibilities as to what it really is.

Was it sold as a "morph"? A morph of what?

 

[Giglamesh]

corellamorph

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

corellamorph

my first guess at ID would have been this is a corallimorph but the jury is still out (so to speak).

This could very well be an anemone or something else.

 

[Giglamesh]

i shall just wait to see if it opens more. i have never seen one that colour though.

 

[shutiny]

I believed you have a juv Stichodactylade sp. I have seen 6 or 8 off springs from my gigantea and haddoni and they look just like that after a month or so. Not sure how old the specimen you have but it looks like a well developed " baby carpet". I have some pics in my data base at home and let me see if I could find my pictures so that we could do a comparison.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

shutiny- were any of your offspring the result of budding?

 

[shutiny]

Gary, I did have a mertensii "bud", but I also had one haddoni, and a gigantea gave live birthes. I remembered that Cindy( she frag'd her H.magnifica in 06?) posted my pitures on RC a few years back.

 

[Giglamesh]

awesome would love it if you could find those pics

 

[shutiny]

Here is the gigantea:

These are what I have in my photobucket on line, but will get the S.haddoni pics(from my server) when I get home next Tu.

 

[bues0022]

At that size, and knowing what is more/less common, to me it looks more like a small toadstool leather than an anemone.