twenty12 Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 So I got my live rock and installed it in the tank. I noticed this item on the rock right out of the box. Is it dead, alive? What is it? This picture is green (bad camera) but its actually more white with a tint of yellow/green. Link to comment
c est ma Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Well, it's kind of hard to tell from that pic, but it does seem to resemble the coral in this other recent ID thread: http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=141510 Which may be the sps genus Porites. Quoting myself from that thread: Here are a couple of pics of my hitcher Porites--look anything like yours? Open: Closed: HTH, --Diane Link to comment
mang0ez Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 i have sometime similar, they also came as hitchhikers, and opened up only after 2 weeks of the tank operating. Link to comment
c est ma Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Wow, some really cool things are coming in on LR lately! mangOez, in my limited experience, that doesn't look a lot like Porites to me. I hope someone else can ID it for you. Meanwhile, congrats! --Diane Link to comment
twenty12 Posted January 8, 2008 Author Share Posted January 8, 2008 Yeah.. that looks like it (without the fuzzies ) so lets hope it survives the cycle and grows. Link to comment
SlukBunWalla Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 mang0ez, I have something very similar to that as a hitchhiker on my rock in the new nano...I have been researching mine and I *think* it's pseudocorynactus...a "disk anemone"...I'm not 100% on that but looks pretty similar... Link to comment
c est ma Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 twenty12, If you've seen no polyps or sign of life whatsoever, it could just be an old skeleton...Many a reefer has been fooled by these! But do keep an eye on it. SlukBunWalla, What mangOez has is not Pseudocorynactis. For one thing, it does not take that growth form. Congrats on researching your critter...ever feel like posting pics? Pseudocorynactis are also called strawberry anemones, fish-eating anemones, orange-bulb anemones...There have been several ID threads in this forum about them, with lots of pics. (Maybe that's where you did your research!) --Diane Link to comment
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