What the heck is this? Please help ID this

[EleutheraRox]

Hi - I have no idea what this is.

Here's a top down shot:

and from the side:

I'd say it's about the size of a quarter - but it stretches from time to time to almost 3 inches long.

I'm just setting up my new 210 and it's a hitchhiker - no fish or anything else in the tank at the moment as it's still cycling. Oh, and I think I found a baby one too - about the size of a grain of sand. It looks like a snail with no shell with a zooanthid on it's back

Somebody guessed it was a tulip anemone, but the tentacles are so short...

Hoping you all can help!

Thanks,
Mike

 

[traveller7]

Those verrucae exclude most of the common pest anemones.

Possibly a small Heteractis sp.or even a "Borneman" anemone.

Grow it out in a location with light and some direct feeding and keep a record

 

[COreefer]

Where did your rock come from???

 

[EleutheraRox]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9605622#post9605622 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by traveller7
Those verrucae exclude most of the common pest anemones.

Possibly a small Heteractis sp.or even a "Borneman" anemone.

Grow it out in a location with light and some direct feeding and keep a record

Well, as long it's not going to overrun my tank I'll feed it - wanted to get your opinions first! Wasn't expecting to have one so soon with my tank so new - I'll have to do my research and see what the best thing to do to feed it would be. Any suggestions?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9606106#post9606106 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by COreefer
Where did your rock come from???

According to the LFS where I bought it, there's a mixture of Bali and others. So who knows?

Is the fact that he's been on the side of the glass the whole time significant at all? Meaning, does it eliminate certain possible species?

Thanks, I'll keep you all updated if things change.

Mike

 

[traveller7]

I suspect it will eat just about any meaty food that touches it...

At that size, glass positioning may not be indicative of anything, yet

I also suspect those six symetrically spaced "spots" on the oral disk are a Genus or species indicator, time will tell :>)

Best of luck with it and make sure to take lots of pictures

 

[RedSonja]

It's pretty, but I have no idea what kind of 'nem it is. Please do keep us up to date on it, pictures, what it eats, etc.

-Sonja

 

[EleutheraRox]

Remember that scene in the Lord of the Rings when Gandalf is hanging on to the ledge? He lets go and falls to catch up with the Balrog and ultimately defeats it. Well, the little guy is Gandalf, the Balrog is my Tunze :0

It was strange - he grabbed on to two Mysis shrimp, closed around them, and then when I went to get my camera, must have let them both go, detatched from the side of the tank, and was blown vehemently around before heading straight for the intake screen of my Tunze.

I yelled NOOOO and quick hit the stop button on the controller - he came off in one piece, which is good, but he's now sitting very grumpily on a piece of LR underneath....

He sat there for two weeks while I decided whether or not to feed him, and then when I do he tries to commit suicide! Ah well I'll try again to feed him later on tonight.

Mike

 

[seapug]

wow, that is cool. probably climbing up the glass to get more light. try to coerce it onto a small rock and put it in a spot with good light and current-- and take more top-down photos!

 

[EleutheraRox]

I got him to eat a piece of mysis, finally. I've moved the rock he's on closer to the window, the only light I have right now. This weekend I'll be finished with my lights and canopy, so he'll have more light from then on.

Should I feed him one shrimp a day, or two, or? The shrimp are as big as his whole body! I'll try to get more pics today.

Thanks,
Mike