Hitching Euphilia

[willyboy]

I found this on my LR yesterday. It is not algae because it shrinks/cringes when I tap on the glass. It is very small. It looks like zoas w/o heads. I've never seen anything like it!

 

February 8th. under clam, very small

 

April 20th.

 

Today (August 7th) Not fully extended.

 

Yesterday (October 14th)

 

(UPDATED TO SHOW GROWTH several times)

[willyboy]

Thanks for all the help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Reef Gator]

Ah yes...the infamous brown blob, Fuzzius nofreakingcluious

[jimbro]

wait til it expands a bit and try to get a better pic. looks superficially like a mojano anemone, at least from that pic

[mikedege]

Ah yes...the infamous brown blob, Fuzzius nofreakingcluious

 

 

Close, positive ID is Fuzzius nofreakingcluious with cyanoius

 

-Mike

[Reverse Logic]

I don't know enough about corals to make a guess . . . but I think I saw one of the Mario Brothers go down into that tube on the top left. Am I the only one?

[bradarmi]

I had trouble seeing the circle

[The Propagator]

I like pees.

[jimbro]

That's disgusting prop

[The Propagator]

As in the vegetable found in a hull you goober.

 

[jimbro]

Oh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oooooh.... I smell what you're steppin in

[Koral krazy (reefer 365)]

could you get a close-up on that? it would probably be easier to identify

[formerly icyuodd/icyoud2]

i cant tell from the pic, but the only thing i know of that looks like a zoa with no head would be a snake polyp.

 

http://liveaquaria.com/product/prod_displa...id=2157&N=0

[Uploadead]

bubble algae?

[ebin]

I like pees.

 

 

i think you mean peas

[Six]

majano, or pseudocorynactus tho the latter doesnt come out much in the light. also, you may not want to tap on the glass.

[Koral krazy (reefer 365)]

again, could you post a close-up?

[jimbro]

bubble algae?

 

probably not bubble algae

[willyboy]

I knew someone would say that Six!

 

I just have a digital camera. That is about as good as it gets. Its definitely not algae. It only expands in the day. I have never heard of a hitch hiker Euphilia But it has the color and shape of one. I know that sounds far-fetched. I already turned off the lights for today but I'll wake the fish back up.

 

Oh ya, thanks for all the help!!!!!!!!!!! , on my birthday, groundhog day.

 

 

LOL, ROFL... thats funny Jimbo and Mike!!!!!

[cyenna]

I don't know enough about corals to make a guess . . . but I think I saw one of the Mario Brothers go down into that tube on the top left. Am I the only one?

 

no, no. I think I saw him too. I think I see Princess Peach too. She blends in with the coralline though.

[willyboy]

I found another one that is bigger and has bigger, more prominent heads on it. Still no clue what this is. That is probably the best pic I can get.

[dshnarw]

My guess is that its an LPS - maybe hammer/torch/frogspawn. Looks very similar to my five baby ones.

 

Mojano is a runner up...but I like them too.

[willyboy]

Its just so weird to think that a LPS would hitchhike on LR. I have certainly never heard of that.

[dshnarw]

I think a lot of people may assume that a small LPS on live rock are something bad, and kill them off before its really recognizeable (because it does seem weird to have LPS coming from live rock).

 

But I have seen it happen:

 

My LFS has 2 rocks that have sprouted torch corals (and refuse to sell them...ergh...). In less than a year, one has grown to 2 heads that, extended, are about the size of the average fist. There is a smaller one about the size of a half dollar fully extended and popped up a couple months ago.

 

The 5 hammers I have were from some live rock that they broke up and left in a tank for a few months, and I had a couple of small red acans that sprouted out in a rock before the "great crash of (the) 29".

[willyboy]

Cool. Maybe these will grow.