need two ID's [with pictures!]

go in your menu and change your 'white balance' to 'fluorescent'. it will help. (manual is actually better, but not as easy).

I *think* your camera has that setting if I remember right. Haven't used one from that line in a while now.

 

i have irritated both of these things in my tank with tongs and a putting current on them with a turkey baster. #2 does kind of retract into that tube, and after googling hydroids and seeing those pictures [we also have the little white things all over the front glass now which were also labeled hydroids in another hitchhiker website]. But, i am not sure that #1 is a majano, i have googled pictures and their tips seem more green and the center isnt that neon colored as opposed to the what i have. when i irritated that thing, it closed up like this [not my picture, found on google], where as the aiptasia goes back into the rock from the hole it is coming out of, i would think if this were an anemone it would do the same thing since its on the edge of a hole in the rock but it just closes up on itself.

#1 has been the same size for about two months now since we got that piece of rock. i wish it grew as fast as aiptasia so i could get a better closeup lol. we have aiptasia x just need to use it. i'm not saying anyone's wrong that this isnt a majano because honestly i dont know i just want to keep the options open incase it isnt lol. would you rid majano the same way you would aiptasia? if this isnt a majano would squirting it with some aiptasia x possibly kill it if it were a zoanthid or something similar?
ok back to the camera, i had to look a bit but i did find the flourescent setting and changed it to that. should those other settings on the bottom of the screen be changed to something specific? the first one ranges from f14.8 to f2.8, the second goes from 1/4-1/1000 or from 0.3"-16.0" it has two different things on that setting, third one can go from -2.0 to +2.0, fourth setting wont let me change it, says 0.0 right now. and last setting ISO goes from 64 to 3200.
i will try to take another picture with the flourescent setting later today.

 

Probably a zoanthid or palythoa of some kind, kind of neat looking! Can you get a picture of it fully open?

 

OK i am back in the game of "what is it.." Here check out this link "kinda" looks like a Blastomussa... Of course your color is off a touch.. but Polyps and structure (sp) is just about spot on...

Link: blastomussa-poliep-12112005 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!


Good Luck..!!

P.s if thats a Posstive Id ... Thats a Good hitchhiker coral..!!

 

just a shot in the dark but the first one looks to me like some sort of ricordea.

 

i did some researching and found that some people have success with epoxy/super glueing the hydroids, putting kalk paste on them, scrubbing them off the rock, using joe's juice, and one instance where they were frozen off with ice water and ice cubes. i have read several instances where none of these things have worked too [except the ice water thing] and they have come back. also have read that some people have had them, left them alone, and they just disappeared on their own. i'm ruling out doing the ice water thing because the other thing is on the same rock. and leaving them alone, incase they want to sting the other thing on the rock and it turns out to be something cool i dont want to kill it just yet. i will try some of these things and see what happens lol

 

In all honesty, no healthy reef is without pests. Nature has it's own way of "natural selection" if you will and usually when the population increases, something is off with your water quality or you might be feeding too much. I had these in my 10 gallon nano and they reproduced like mad, BUT I was overfeeding a ton. I have a few patches right now and they haven't spread anywhere, yet...

OH ya, I don't think anything in nature eats these guys, but I could be wrong.

 

that would be nice if it is, me and my husband really like ricordea

 

thats another thing, i have read that peppermint shimp might eat them and some type of nudibranch, but its hit or miss if they actually will eat them. we got a peppermint shrimp that we watched eat aiptasia in the fish store, thats why we bought it, and hasn't touched it at all in our tank lol.

 

you're right! over the weekend we saw two kinds of Ricordea. one was different colored but was the same size [less than a centimeter wide] as ours and had the same shape/structure and everything. The other one we saw had the exact same coloring and and all but it was about 1.5" wide. Thanks everyone for the help and as soon as I figure out how to take a decent picture I will post it. Karma to all that helped!