Unknown Anemone HH

[TrippAllen]

I have two large and one small anemone and I'm wondering if anyone can identify them. I'm hoping they are not aiptasia.

 

[figuerres]

Re: Unknown Anemone HH

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15313787#post15313787 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TrippAllen
I have two large and one small anemone and I'm wondering if anyone can identify them. I'm hoping they are not aiptasia.

looks like a "curly cue"
look here:
http://www.tampabaysaltwater.com/thepackage/organisms.html

generally ok some do get kind of big... might be a porblem for smaller fish *if* the anem. gets big and hungry.

for sure it's *NOT* aiptasia in like 7 years of having tbs rock and reading here i have never seen a problem with that come from tbs rock. often i have seen folks think they had some when they had cup-coral that can look like them.

 

[TrippAllen]

Thanks!!!
Tripp

 

[Yogre]

Just to add to what figuerres said, these animals are, according to Richard's website an aiptasia family anemone. The difference seems to be that the Caribbean species does not aggressively spread like the Indo-Pacific species do.

I had 3 that hitchhiked in on my rock. One was in a sponge that died, so I pitched it. One disappeared, I suspect my peppermint shrimp population ate it. The third has gotten kinda big, I may Joe's Juice him 'cuz I don't need the threat to my fish.

At the end of the day, I think you have to decide if you like 'em or not, but based on what I and others like figuerres have seen, I don't think they're a huge threat to your tank like the Indo aiptasia are.

 

[figuerres]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15314633#post15314633 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Yogre
Just to add to what figuerres said, these animals are, according to Richard's website an aiptasia family anemone. The difference seems to be that the Caribbean species does not aggressively spread like the Indo-Pacific species do.

I had 3 that hitchhiked in on my rock. One was in a sponge that died, so I pitched it. One disappeared, I suspect my peppermint shrimp population ate it. The third has gotten kinda big, I may Joe's Juice him 'cuz I don't need the threat to my fish.

At the end of the day, I think you have to decide if you like 'em or not, but based on what I and others like figuerres have seen, I don't think they're a huge threat to your tank like the Indo aiptasia are.

Yes they are related, just as many of our common corals and stuff are all related - some more than others...

when i first had tbs rock i had one of them and i fed it and bou did it grow :eek1: at the end i was just not liking what it grew into and removed it.
*if* i had not fed it then i think it would have stayed smaller and been less of a worry for me at that time.

i also had tiny buds on some rock that in the first 6 months i could not be sure what they were, at one point i was starting to think they were the evil stuff.... then they started branching and i could finaly tell that they were baby gorgonians ...

everything eats something.... and all this stuff is fighting to take over a patch of reef to live... and we try to corral it all into a box and manage it...

 

[noahm]

They are the Atlantic Aiptasia pallida I believe. Not a pest typically. I have a couple, and no problems.