Mystery anemone

[Izshocker]

I recently got a batch of live rock for my 75 gallon reef that i'm setting up. There are to of these little guys hitchhiking. What are they? One local fish place is calling them tulip anemones.

 

[ReeferBill]

Cannot tell, need a closer picture..

 

[__SKINNY__]

free hitchhikers woohoo!!!!

 

[Izshocker]

Sorry for the bad picture quality, it was taken while the sand storm was still settling.

 

[bradleym]

If they are green with pink tips, they are indeed tulip anemones. Cool looking, but spread kinda fast and sting some corals. Most people consider them a pest like majano anemones. A better pic would definitely help.

 

[Izshocker]

More a pink with green tips

 

[bradleym]

Wow!! Nice find, and NOT a tulip anemone. Likely a small BTA, and a cool looking one at that.

 

[s_kelley]

Yeah second pic looks like a small bubble tip, nice!

 

[Izshocker]

Hmmm.... Thinking I should pick up the rock at the pet store that has two more visible on it

 

[bradleym]

I probably would if I was you.

How big is the biggest one?

 

[Izshocker]

Maybe an inch around. They're all really small

 

[bradleym]

Hm. I would hold off on buying too many. Just cause we don't know of a pest like that doesn't mean there isn't one and I would hate to screw you over with bad advice. If they grow to 2 inches or so, they're BTAs. If they don't get any bigger and start multiplying, you can send me a couple for my junk tank and kill the rest while there are only a couple of them.

 

[Izshocker]

If they start getting out of control they'll go to my biocube. They are cool looking. And I'll kill off the ones I can't move

 

[bradleym]

Haha. That would be my play.

 

[mikezalewski]

It looks like a majano. I have had a few in the past that were really cool looking but they will over run a tank asap so kill it so you do not run into problems in the future.


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[Izshocker]

Not what I want to hear . Might move them to a 20 gallon. They're just to cool looking to kill off, but if they're pest out of the main tank they go

 

[bradleym]

Definitely keep us posted. I've had a couple different kinds of majano, but they didn't look quite like those.

 

[brian762]

That is a monjanoe! Mine looke exactly the same way.

 

[bradleym]

That is a monjanoe! Mine looke exactly the same way.

Bummer. Send me one? I got tulip anemones, and these look like the exact opposite, so it would be fun to have them side by side.. I hope they are not too much trouble in your 20g.

 

[AcroporAddict]

That is a monjanoe! Mine looke exactly the same way.

I've had plenty of majanos in my reefs, and this doesn't look anything like them. When have you ever seen a Majano with bubble tips?