It's irritating my zoas

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  1. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    I have had this thing on my zoa rock for a while i had posted a ID in the past and people just said it's probably a sponged. But now it's causing problems the base is hot pink and has tenticles coming out and is making my zoas close up, it was never a problem until now and the zoas around it have been closed for the past few days

    EDIT: Another thing i was just watching the tenticles my cleaner shrimps antnna went near the tenticles and they immediatly sunk right into the base
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    here you can kind of see the bright pink base
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  3. missionsix

    missionsix Super Moderator Staff Member

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    Looks like a strawberry anemone. Doesn't look anything like sponge to me. I have had and there is bad sponge to have. Could be a hydroid?
     
  4. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    maybe the tenticles are very new the pink has never been a problem until now. I do have 1 or 2 hyroid but they've never really been a problem and havent spread until maybe now
     
  5. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    best i could get these things are TINY i was wondering why my zoas had been closed up for the past couple days and i looked tonight and saw these things, do you think its the nem or hydroids
     
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    UnderTheSea Feather Duster

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    Some type of Anemone is my guess, don't really know too much about hitchhiker's...
     
  7. sollie7

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    pull it off flush down toilet
     
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  9. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    the zoas were my first coral when i first got them they had very very young hitchhiking green star polyps i ended up nuking it with kalk paste and they havent come up. could this be a very young nem as well
     
  10. Puffer Chick

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    might be possible if i can get ahold of it its so tiny
     
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    tweezers;D
     
  12. Puffer Chick

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    also i should add when it was just the pink base i never had any issues with it until the tenticles popped up and they are very new