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Gary.F

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Any ideas on the id of this little green guy which has appeared at the base of this euphyillia? It has an orate dot at the centre. Please excuse the terrible photo.

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Looks like a baby euphyllia head to me.

Or rather it could be a number of hexacarals, but given it's location, and the fact that euphyllia sometimes sprout little polyps from the side of the skeleton, a baby polyp would be my first guess

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Thanks.

A baby euphyllia makes sense from the placement but it doesn't really look much like one in the flesh.

 

Since I can't get a really good photo, I'l try to describe it. It's flat and round like a mushroom polyp but with six raised structures radiating from the centre. The centre is an orange dot.

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Ah, orange dot. Plate coral, probably a baby one. Look close, use reading glasses or something, is that orange dot a little mouth.


Grown up version:

 

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Ah, that could be it.

The problem with viewing it is the same as with photographing it- the distance from the glass. I'd need to lift a large rock covered with coral and with other rocks braced against it. As long as it isn't going to turn into a Great White, I'm leaving it there ;) .

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This guy is growing and I have a better pic'.

 

My LFS guy suggested that it might be a baby ectamea anemone. Since I have no idea what a baby version would look like, I'm throwing it back in here. Thoughts?

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I reckon we might have do do a sweepstake. I'm leaning towards an anemone. It recently contracted quite a bit when I had some water issues.

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