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  1. stook

    stook Astrea Snail

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    Hi all. I bought a small rock from my local fish store with some coral on it. I was told there are two mushroom corals and a small patch of zoanthids. When I got it home I noticed these other things also poking out from it. I hope they aren't anything bad like aptasia.

    I have a 30 gallon with a 10 gallon sump/refugium. A clown fish and a green chromis have been living in there for over a year now with some live rock.

    Sorry for the not so great picture quality but you can just about make them out.

    Thanks in advance!

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    stook, Jan 20, 2013
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  2. Corailline

    Corailline Super Moderator

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    Looks like they could be a type of clove polyp, not sure of type. Does not look like a pest anemone, to me anyways.
     
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  3. proreefer

    proreefer Feather Star

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    a type of clove polyp i don't think there bad someone will name them for you i'm sure
     
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  4. stook

    stook Astrea Snail

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    Ok that's good news! Thanks guys, you sure are speedy. I hope someone can give an exact reading.
     
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  5. rgoedhart

    rgoedhart Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    definitely some type of clove polyp, not bad, but can be very invasive.. You want to be careful with these as they can start spreading very fast to places you may not want them.
     
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  6. Pankak322

    Pankak322 Flamingo Tongue

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    agreed, some type of clove. BUt if left alone will spread all over your tank.
     
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  7. honu hunter

    honu hunter Astrea Snail

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    Forgive my ignorance but what should you do to control something like this?
     
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  8. Corailline

    Corailline Super Moderator

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    Not add it to your tank in the first place. Not only does it spread across surfaces it can also spawn.

    Keeping it isolated to one rock might work.

    There is actually a de-wormer for animals/mammals that works.
     
    Corailline, Jan 25, 2013
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  9. honu hunter

    honu hunter Astrea Snail

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    So to keep something like this isolated to one area you'd apply a product to surrounding areas as it tried to spread? Not a manual trimming of some sort?
     
    honu hunter, Jan 26, 2013
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