What Type of Invertebrate is this?

Discussion in 'Inverts' started by dodgethis3500, Feb 23, 2010.

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  1. dodgethis3500

    dodgethis3500 Plankton

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    I'm not sure how this works but I'll give it a try. A few weeks ago I purchased a live rock with some corals on it(not even sure if it's a coral or what) hoping that I could bring it home and bring them back to life. Well they are do really well, there were only two, and now it's grown into six, the only thing is I haven't found out what they are, and I don't know how to describe them to narrow down the search on Google. But please look at the picture and see if you can tell me what it is, and maybe a little bit of information on it. if you click on the picture it'll give you a bigger better image. Thank you for your help.
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  3. WuWu

    WuWu Feather Star

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    Some type of brown palys would be my guess
     
  4. patrick824

    patrick824 Montipora Digitata

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    look like your typical red/brown polyps/ palythoas
     
  5. missionsix

    missionsix Super Moderator Staff Member

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    Brown Button Polyps and/or palythoas.
     
  6. dodgethis3500

    dodgethis3500 Plankton

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    Found it

    Thank you for your help, I was able to find what it was based on the answers you guys gave me. It's a Palythoa Tuberculosa. Here is the link to the web-site that I found that has the exact same specimen as mine.
    Zoanthids

    Again thank you for all of your help.