donteatthenano Posted August 25, 2003 Author Share Posted August 25, 2003 any help with these would be much appreciated. as things get a little bigger i will try to take better pictures. thanks a ton for all of your help. Link to comment
Acoustic Posted August 25, 2003 Share Posted August 25, 2003 Pictures 1 through 3 are Zooanthids. Picture 4 is red sea pulsing pom pom xenia. Picture 5 is recovering blastomossa! That IS the best! Link to comment
donteatthenano Posted August 26, 2003 Author Share Posted August 26, 2003 Thanks a lot Acoustic! They are all growing very quickly, the xenia especially. Link to comment
SAILFIN Posted September 5, 2003 Share Posted September 5, 2003 I AGREE WITH 1 theu 4 but 5 is a hidden cup coral do a search on here you will find many pictures. is that aqua cultured rock? Link to comment
donteatthenano Posted September 5, 2003 Author Share Posted September 5, 2003 yes it is aqua-cultured. i'm very happy with it. after a month, i have all kinds of things growing on and off of it. Link to comment
jojopus Posted September 5, 2003 Share Posted September 5, 2003 yeah, 5 is a hidden cup not a blasto. and number 4 could be an encrusting gorgonian ...... Link to comment
drdrew Posted September 5, 2003 Share Posted September 5, 2003 4 looks like anthelia to me. 1 also looks like a cup coral on aquacultured rock the polyps are paly...augh i forgot how to spell it, but they are the large zooanthids Link to comment
donteatthenano Posted September 5, 2003 Author Share Posted September 5, 2003 lfs friend also ID'd pic4 as anthelia. i'm going to post some new pics to show the hitchhiker progress sometime this weekend. i may also post a tankshot, along with any worms or pods i can catch. i've also got some anemone/polyped looking things that i'm afraid might be aiptasia but i haven't got a clue and i think that they may be too small to ID yet (and too small to take pics of right now). thanks again for the help. this sure is great fun. Link to comment
Jahkaya Posted September 5, 2003 Share Posted September 5, 2003 I agree with drew. Palyothoa. Link to comment
horsehunter Posted September 6, 2003 Share Posted September 6, 2003 Great stuff. How long did it take to start coming out of the rock. All that has come out of my $9.98 (Canadian)rock is Bubble Algae. Link to comment
donteatthenano Posted September 6, 2003 Author Share Posted September 6, 2003 pic2 and pic3 i added 2 weeks after adding the $7.99/lb lr. everything else was there when i picked the rock out of the tank at my lfs. the tank cycled in less than 2 weeks (10 days) which i think aided in the survival rate of the hitchhikers. i really liked the hidden cup coral eventhough i didn't know what it was at the time. i also picked out a couple of nice pieces for their coraline cover. it's been over a month now and i have coraline now growing on my heater and all the hitchhikers are getting bigger and bigger. thanks again for everyone's feedback. this is fun stuff (wish the wife would let me start a 5.5g). any advice here would help out too (a friend already offered to donate the equip to my cause). :-) Link to comment
hickncali Posted September 10, 2003 Share Posted September 10, 2003 man, i wish i got those hitch hikers on my live rock, all i get is micro algea and the crabs get to it in a matter of days. so i have to supplement corals on to the rocks Link to comment
donteatthenano Posted September 17, 2003 Author Share Posted September 17, 2003 i need a little more help. can anyone identify this? it doesn't seem to want to cause too much of a problem but it is definitely growing very fast. thanks. Link to comment
donteatthenano Posted September 17, 2003 Author Share Posted September 17, 2003 bubble algae? Link to comment
donteatthenano Posted December 2, 2003 Author Share Posted December 2, 2003 pic1 - hiddencup corals and macro algae which no longer exists due to some hungry bristleworms pic2 - orange polyped palythoa frag pic3 - variation of coral in pic2...i think pic4 - has grown considerably, now resembles a purple gorgonian pic5 - hiddencup coral Link to comment
caja Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 looks like red grape caulerpa to me. I have some growing in my tank. Link to comment
donteatthenano Posted December 2, 2003 Author Share Posted December 2, 2003 i could definitely be sold on the red grape caulerpa, but there is an octocoral in there as well, which i believe has grown to resemble a purple gorgonian (if we're talking about the same thing). the caulerpa was very cool but disappeared slowly due to a growing population of bristleworms...i think. they're big enough now that i'll probably start picking them (the bristleworms) out of the tank when it's convenient. i hate to do it, because some of them are very interesting, but i really like the algae too. Link to comment
birdman204 Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 is number 5 a baby candy cane? it could be the cup coral, but they are usually more solid with actual tentacles instead of sweepers which those appear to be. Link to comment
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