ID help please

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  1. jlocmac

    jlocmac Astrea Snail

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    We just bought some things online. Their descriptions aren't very good. Any help on what they are would help.
     

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  3. jlocmac

    jlocmac Astrea Snail

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    ID help cont

    Here a couple more
     

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  4. PharmrJohn

    PharmrJohn The Dude

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    Not the best at this....but looks like a bunch of Zoanthids and Mushrooms to me.
     
  5. ermano

    ermano Zoanthid

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    I was just about to say that...

    +2 on the mushrooms and zoo's
     
  6. inwall75

    inwall75 Giant Squid

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    yep

    Please note that the first colony on your first post has zoanthid eating nudibranchs. the last colony on your second post does too.
     
  7. swagger87

    swagger87 Zoanthid

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    How can you tell it has zoo eating nudi's? I don't see a thing.
     
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  9. inwall75

    inwall75 Giant Squid

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    See the polyps that are completely closed or mostly closed and there might be tenticles slightly sticking out?

    Those aren't tentacles. They are camouflage appendages of the nudibranch's themselves. The nudi's will even take on the color of the zoanthid they are eating to fool you even more.
     
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    swagger87 Zoanthid

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    Oh wow! I would have never known. Good eye!
     
  12. jlocmac

    jlocmac Astrea Snail

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    I knew they were zoas and mushrooms. I just wanted to know if anyone knew any names. I'm pretty new to all of this, so I don't know a lot about zoa eating nudibranches. I do know that I took those pictures as soon as they were pulled out of the bags after being shipped from Cal to Ga. So the unopened ones are just unopened IMO. I could be wrong, but we've had the zoas almost a week and I haven't noticed any of the so-called erosion that the nudibranch causes.