LPS or Manjo?

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Bree42

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I went ahead and put this in the tank, where I can watch it closely, flushed the aptasia. AS I was studying this stuff it is different, both mouth and base are different than the aptasia. I seriously hesitate to flush it without knowing what exactly it is. Kinda looks like some type of LPS to me??
 
Whoa hoo hooo Nellie!! What's up with the orange in the center? Is that from a recent feeding? Try to see if that's part of a skeleton first!! Ive seen bleached, colored aiptasia and manjano, and Im sorry, but that's not crying out aiptasia to me. That orange in the center is defintately not typical of aiptasia. All the other ones are pretty typical looking aiptasia and the one in the lower pic off to the left without a doubt is. But than one of to the right is definately an oddball. Toss the others but hold onto that orange centered one till you can unquestionably rule it out.

-Justin

PS. If you just fed the tank with some orange or red colored food before the picture nix what I said above and toss em all! ;)
 
I feed the corals in the tank on Mondays, so nothing in the refugium that would be food. Plus it's carnation pink, not orange. Fed it some brine this morning (after pictures) and I have it in the sand in one corner where I can watch it closely. Base is maybe a quarter inch.
 
have the same thing in my tank.... only one.. I was going to KILL it but after I researched aptasia online and seen what they look like I decided to leave it alone.. mine is way to small to take a pic(crappy camera) so I could never get ID.... it about .25'' round and about .5'' tall.... I'm keeping a close eye on this one!!!
 
the mystery thing definitely looks strange. The orange center is odd. Could be food but it's hard to say. I'd hold off on flushing it and keep an eye on it for a while.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12521083#post12521083 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by seapug
the mystery thing definitely looks strange. The orange center is odd. Could be food but it's hard to say. I'd hold off on flushing it and keep an eye on it for a while.
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Ya, not only the color is odd, but just happens to coincidentally have the same diameter as the two coralites it's sitting between..

Id get a kalk slurry and juice that dark aiptasia on the zoa rock Bree42.

-Justin
 
Zoa rock was flushed, that'[s just a small section out of the middle of a really big patch.
I( contacted a friend out of Florida that is a marine biologist and this is his email on it. This guy is breeding corals and putting them back in the ocean.

It actually does look like a local Florida LPS. I guess watch it closely and see if it reproduces or not and when it sucks in if it has a hard shell or not. It would be a shame to flush it if it wasn't destructive like an aptasia. If it is an LPS then it is sought after by many hobbyists. So let me know how it turns out. Thanks.
 
looks like a strawberry to me. :) umm, red base, white tentacles? i have one, doesnt reproduce, and its really nice to look at. from what i heard, its strawberry anemone. hope that helps

abe
 
It moved, which rules out LPS. Still on watch at this point, that short fat base has me stuck. Aptasia is tall and thin.
 
Did it move, or did the rock shift? Does it react when you poke it? It (and especially the dead skeletons it's between) look like FL cup corals to me.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12538268#post12538268 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by abereefur
did you read my post for strawberry nem?
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I did, but dont think it's one. The tenticles are long like a curly or aiptasia, while strawberry anemone's are fairly short and have bulbous tips at the end of there tenticles.

-Justin
 
Here's a strawberry for everyone's reference that havent seen one, color is pretty close, just the tenticles are different though:

anemone2_580.jpg


-Justin
 
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