I got some aussie duncan and there was so much live on the frag that I did not even want to desinfect it. Lots of nice feather duster, including a bright red one and there were these little anemones? or at least they look like anemones.

They never move so I wonder what they really are? cute and about the size of a large pea. You can see the duncan polyp retracted beside just to give an idea of the scale. Of course all these are from Australia.

ok here is the link. hope that work and pbase is quite BAD.

http://www.pbase.com/zylen/image/122456475/original

lets see if photobucket works:

Both don't work lol

photobucket!!!! LOL

So anyone know?

It almost looks like Majano anenomes..

It does look like an anemone of some sort and they are tiny since they reach the size of a pea maximum.

Is there an anemone that is so small and remain so small? I mean, even aptasia become quite big, but those little ones don't get any larger.

I guess it will be very hard to ID them since the frag come from Australia and this is not a common place for importing coral. Australia have all sort of wild creatures.

The reason I know they are not getting any bigger is because I have seen a small baby grow and it stopped growing once it got the same size as the others.

Somebody in another forum actualy suggested that they were baby duncans! lol.

Definitly not a LPS coral. No mucus, no bony structure, just a foot that is attached to the frag like aptasia would. When I touch it, it retract exactly the same way aptasia do.

Do they have skeletons.

Have they moved at all?

Wow this is quite interesting... Almost looks like the little anemone's that my pom-pom carries around...

I'm interested in getting a positive ID as well. I'm sure someone knows.

no skeleton and they sqash to very small if I touch them, and they have not moved so far. At least those that I can see seem to be at the same place for the 2 weeks I have that frag. I moved the frag around in different position and they have not moved from there. They are under the dead part of the aussi duncan so they don't receive much light. That part where they hang on used to be a duncan head but it's dead now and lots of live in it, like many feather dusters and those little things.

That does not mean they cannot move, just that they have not yet moved.

It has a foot much like a trunk like an aptasia and that's why I thought it was an anemone.

The reason that I want an ID so much is that I would like to keep them alive and I have no clue what they are and what they eat.

Ok another observation. I went to check them tonight and to my surprise only one was showing up and I could not see any of the others. After a few seconds spotting the led light on them they inflated out of nowhere and were back to normal. So they seem to have photosynthesis reaction. they deflate to nearly nothing at night and inflate back with light.

When toutched or spraying water on it, it retract very quickly to nothing, just like an aptasia would do. No visible structure remain as you would expect in a polyp coral.

They are not manjano anemones, but they could be something else. They look interesting, so maybe you want to just separate them.

Looked all through here but did not see anything that really looks like what you have pictured.

http://actiniaria.com/

Separating them will be a bit hard since this is a dead part of a duncan frag and that will surely upset the duncan, plus there are many beautiful little feather duster on that dead part and that would kill them. One of them is totaly red and a few are red and white. I would hate to kill those cute little dusters.

I will see if I can take better, closer photo but the frag has been glued to my live rock so that will be hard to photograph. I would especialy like to take a pic when it is deflated so that I can see if there is any trace of any structure like a coral or not.