Anemone in fuge?

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  1. missionsix

    missionsix Super Moderator Staff Member

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    NO IT'S NOT APTASIA. I'ts about the size of a small pearl. It is clear looking with rounded blue-ish, aqua-ish, green-ish looking tips. I tried to get a pic. but, it's too small. It doesn't sway with any current. Is it some type of pod eggs or, something? It's attached to a small piece of coral rubble with, a tiny piece of chaeto stuck to it. If I need I'll try and move to get a pic..
     
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  2. Marty

    Marty Stylophora

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    I can't wait to see it, sounds interesting. Keep us posted.
     
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    missionsix Super Moderator Staff Member

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    [​IMG] It's attached to the white speck just to the left of the reflection from flashlight.
     
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  4. wastemanagement

    wastemanagement Eyelash Blennie

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    Hmmm!!! hard to say
     
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    missionsix Super Moderator Staff Member

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    Here's another pic of this thing on some of my sponge in fuge. Look to the left of the "T" on the cord. Those white dots are the tips of what looks some kind of anemone.
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  6. baugherb

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    Thats crazy!!!!!!
     
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  7. Iraf

    Iraf Snowflake Eel

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    That would be the scientific name for that creature
     
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    suckafish Montipora Capricornis

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    mabye i just have terrible eyes, i cant see it. but i am interested in what it is
     
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    aquaboy Panda Puffer

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    I see it. its kinda cool. If it does no harm, then why not let it stay and grow ;)
     
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  10. johnmaloney

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    Are you sure it is an anenome, not just a Spirorbis worm? Is there more than one? You might want take it out and touch it, anemones have a soft body, these have a hard body. I didn't see the mystery thing you were explaining, but I saw some of the Spriorbis in the picture.

    If it is the kind of small worm I am thinking of, under magnification it will have a body that kind of swirls in a circle, and at the top a hand looking think, (like the hand on a barnacle), comes out and filters the water a bit. It will be all white.

    Here is a pic of many of them, they start off slowly and build their colony:

    http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u302/HelfrichChick/Critters%20for%20ID%20use/spirorbis-cf-inornatus-wb1-600x400.jpg

    If it is no need to fear they clean the water, and are generally considered to be good.
     
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