Please help! Is this Aiptasia

[Caesar]

Please tell me that this is not an Aiptasia

[Physh1]

It's kinda hard to tell what that is. I'm pretty sure it is an anemone but I can't be positive it's an aiptasia.

 

Cameron

[Caesar]

Well I'm going to kill it. I believe in shooting first and asking questions later. It is coming out of a hole im my LR and it only comes out at night.

[hhasty79]

It doesn't *look* like the aipatasia I've seen.

[Dave ESPI]

Originally posted by Caesar

Well I'm going to kill it.  I believe in shooting first and asking questions later.  It is coming out of a hole im my LR and it only comes out at night.

I was going to stay out of this one, but .......

 

yeah.. the "Concientious Marine Aquarist of the year " Award goes too..... :

 

Aiptasia FYI are light loving. All the ones I have ever seen , close up to a big degree at night.

just cause ya dont know what it is, doesnt mean its bad.

sit, observe doccument THEN decide based upon fact.

ya will learn more.

[Caesar]

OK OK I'll let it live, but I'm going to keep my eye on it and if it so much as moves in the wrong direction...

[MrConclusion]

No that is not aiptasia.

 

I am trying to remember the name of thease creatures (I looked them up a while ago because I have some growing on some aquacultured Gulf rock) I am thinking "trunicate" but I bet that's wrong...

 

They have almost transparent tentacles with white dots and white tips, and they close up into a calcerous button-shaped skeleton. They grow very slowly and can be choked by coralline growth. I have some which touch frogspawn and they don't sting each other.