Not so common hitchhiker....

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  1. geekdafied

    geekdafied 3reef Sponsor

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    Jan 25th I was dipping some zoa rocks and when I was pulling out the rocks, I noticed some loose polyps on the bottom of the bucket, so I tossed them in a low flow area of a tank. Well 3 days later I was scraping the glass with mag scraper and noticed what I thought was a zoa polyp attached to the scraper. On closer inspection, I noticed it wasnt a zoanthid. After some reasearch and contacting Brenda at WWM, we've narrowed it down to a Quadricolor Anemone. Remember this thing is tiny, as small as a zoanthid polyp, at most 3/8-1/2 fully open now. So yeah, here are the pics...

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    geekdafied, Feb 7, 2008
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  2. Dador

    Dador Coral Banded Shrimp

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    VERY COOL!!! Nice job on the pics!
     
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  3. geekdafied

    geekdafied 3reef Sponsor

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    it just sucks having to target feed it cyclop-eeze, lol. To small to eat anything else.
     
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  4. cuttingras

    cuttingras Starving Artist :)

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    very cool looking :) congrats Daddy :lol:
     
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  5. argan

    argan Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Might also be a Majano, looks like the two i have when they were little. but then again they look similar when small
     
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  6. reef_guru

    reef_guru Humpback Whale

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    thats a huge anemone

    oh yea, the zoom

    nice pics
     
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  7. baugherb

    baugherb Giant Squid

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    That looks pretty cool....
     
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  8. omard

    omard Gnarly Old Codfish

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    Cool catch geek...

    Very pretty...

    Does not look like any kind of majano I have ever seen pic of...but there are all kinds of types.

    Who cares if they are pretty and not too prolific?
     
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  9. phoenixhieghts

    phoenixhieghts Panda Puffer

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    oh how lucky to get an anemone for free - even if it is small
     
    phoenixhieghts, Feb 8, 2008
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  10. BaxterS80

    BaxterS80 Pajama Cardinal

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    Great pics!!8)
     
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