davinaster Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 What is this, please? The true color is fluorescent green at the tips and getting a healthy brown (was bleached) on the background. Thanks! Link to comment
davinaster Posted March 15, 2005 Author Share Posted March 15, 2005 *bump* Does anyone recognize it? Link to comment
yoshiod9 Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 can you get a better picture of it davina? Link to comment
davinaster Posted March 15, 2005 Author Share Posted March 15, 2005 I knew someone was going to say that My "real" camera is indisposed, and I'm using my 4 year old's POS (yeah, she has her own digital camera; it was free, so what the heck...). This pic is the best I can do. It looks most like a bubble coral, except the tentacles aren't round (and of course it's not stony ). They're sort of branched. And the green is actually in dots on the ends of the tentacles. Link to comment
davinaster Posted March 15, 2005 Author Share Posted March 15, 2005 I looked at the photo gallery on RC at all of the mushrooms, bubble corals and anemones, and nothing was a match. Again, the closest was the bubble corals. I'm stumped. Link to comment
davinaster Posted March 15, 2005 Author Share Posted March 15, 2005 I was taken aback by photos from rbaby's tank a few months ago: The small corals on the left (hammers?) look alot like it, but again, as far as I can tell, this guy is a softie. Today I when I spot fed it, it closed right up like a mushroom. I will continue my image search. Link to comment
davinaster Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 The big tentacles in the middle of this guy look like the ones that are all over mine, but mine has even lengthed tentacles all over. Link to comment
davinaster Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 OK, it looks an awful lot like this frogspawn, but it doesn't have a stoney base. What does frogspawn look like when it's eating? Link to comment
jenniebutterfly Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 it does look like frogspawn, are you sure there is no skeleton? were you able to pick it up off the rocks? sorry i have no pics of my sis in laws eating, but have you fed yours to see what it does? Link to comment
yoshiod9 Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 might be an octobubble coral...but you normally can see it's skeleton. perhaps its from an octobubble that expelled it's polyps for some reason.(is that even possible with bubble corals?) Link to comment
davinaster Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 It was sold to me as an unmounted shroom. It was this bleached out, shriveled up, smaller than a dime nothing. I did the shot-glass-with-rubble thing, and now it's mounted to a decent sided chunk of rock. I don't remember seeing anything that even could have been a piece of a skeleton. When it eats, it does the whole folding up thing just like a mushroom. *argh* I've gone through almost all the coral images on this forum without finding a match, too. Link to comment
inkto Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 disturb it slightly with a baster or something and see if it deflates...you'll see a definite head/skeleton if it's a frogspawn. A frogspawn eating looks like a frowspawn with some of the tentacles deflated towards it's mouth/center. Think of a kid with 50 arms waiting for cheerios to float by and then stuffing them in his mouth... uh, just in slow motion... or something. :/ Link to comment
jenniebutterfly Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 oh god, i hate to imagine a kid with 50 arms, it is bad enough when they have 2 Link to comment
davinaster Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 At least this kid is attached to a rock It folds like a mushroom. I seem to have a very rare specimen on my hands! There isn't a picture of another one like it in the gallery on this site or RC (I've looke at them all!) When it gets a little bigger, frags'll start at $100@ j/k Link to comment
Kogut Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 It looked to me like a green bubble tip anemone when I looked @ it... Just my 2c, though... Good luck figuring out what it is. Link to comment
jenniebutterfly Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 davina does it kinda look like this? just yours is green. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...me=STRK:MEWA:IT Link to comment
davinaster Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 Close, but not pointy. But I did find a picture of ricordia that looks awfully close. I was looking very closely at mine and noticed that some of it's tentacles aren't branched. I still haven't seen a mouth, either (but I know it's in there somewhere ) So maybe it's some kind of ricorida? Link to comment
davinaster Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 Oh, as for BTA, I've looked pretty closely at pictures of them, and I don't think the tentacles on this are right. Thanks for the input. Link to comment
NCNBilly Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 I 2nd the GBTA. Give it some mysis or a silverside and see what it does. Link to comment
davinaster Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 I gave it mysis yesterday when I spot fed everyone else. It folded up into a ball around it like my other shrooms. I've never had an anemone - how do they eat? Link to comment
jenniebutterfly Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 the anemone i have closes up around krill like a shroom, but then as soon as it is in it's mouth it opens back up again. not too sure if all anemones do this or not though. Link to comment
jenniebutterfly Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 here is a pic of the one i have eating Link to comment
davinaster Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 Hmmm... Maybe it is an anemone? But not a BTA, the tentacles just don't seem to be shaped right. I've got a new camera, but the very, very, *very* best picture I could come up with (out of about a dozen) is this: Link to comment
reef hugger Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 I think it resembles a white tip mushroom. http://liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Displa...cfm?pCatId=1863 Link to comment
davinaster Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 *ding! ding! ding! ding!* Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! It appears that I have a specimen of the ever rare green tip white tip mushroom Seriously, the picture that joshnemily linked to has the right shape to the tentacle, so I'm satisfied that this is a Rhodactis sp. Now I can get on with the rest of my life. I have to admit that I'm pretty surprised at how rare it does seem to be. I've looked at literally hundreds of photos in the last couple of days without seen another one of these. I'd be interested in knowing how common/rare it actually is. Link to comment
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