mystery softies!!!!!!

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  1. ingtar_shinowa

    ingtar_shinowa Giant Squid

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    I've had these guys for a while. The polyp/nem was free, then i got 3 of these shrooms for $10. I was wondering if anyone can ID them.
    I figure the first ones are of a long tentacled polyp, but they moved around the tank ALOT when I first got them then settled into the zoa colony which makes me think they might be a nem. It also split, this one is an inch or so from another one in the same colony. They used to live in a big clump of chaeto and would suck down into it when i let my water level drop, then follow it back up for the light.
    The shrooms i think may be st. thomas's but i dunno. Color didn't come out well they are green and orange and have moved off the rock i got them on but have not split in the last couple years.
    I took pictures with and without flash.
     

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  3. steve wright

    steve wright Super Moderator

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    Pictures 1 and 2 do look like Aiptasia in the Zoanthids/ palys to me

    pictures 3 and 4 do look like mushrooms, but I couldnt even guess at the type to be honest

    Steve
     
  4. Siddique

    Siddique Dragon Wrasse

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    1 and 2 does actually look like aiptasia.
    3 is a shroom. What color is it? can't see the proper color from the pic
    4 looks like a disc anemone/rock anemone
     
  5. ingtar_shinowa

    ingtar_shinowa Giant Squid

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    they are certaintly not aptaisa
     
  6. unclejed

    unclejed Whip-Lash Squid

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    I think you are correct on 3 and 4. 1 and 2 may me Majano;
    majano coral pics - Google Search=
     
  7. ingtar_shinowa

    ingtar_shinowa Giant Squid

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    I agree with the majano, pics 3 and 4 are the same critter just one is actinic and the other camera flash. they are green and orange